Welcome to The Authors' Agent

Karen Wood

Books 4 and 5 in Karen's Diamond Spirit series for younger readers will be published by Allen & Unwin in April and June 2012 respectively. The first three books in this warm-hearted series about friendship, courage and finding the horse of your dreams, sold over 25,000 copies in their first 6 months of publication.

http://ww.diamondspirit.net

Oliver Phommavanh

Punchlines has just been released by Penguin Books. It's a story about a class clown who wants to be a stand up comedian to win the girl of his dreams (sounds familiar?). Oliver Phommavanh has received a May Gibbs Creative Fellowship and will be working on his next book in Adelaide. He spoke at the Westwords launch and will be doing workshops for the writing program in Western Sydney. He was at the Perth Writers Festival and will be talking at the Sydney and Melbourne Writers Festival later in the year.

Jane Chidgey

Fascinating, funny, heart-warming and at times deeply moving, Under The Baobab Tree, a wonderful tale of a woman who fell in love twice - first with a man, and then with Africa - has just been published by ABC Books, (February 2012 release).

http://shop.abc.net.au