Alex Adsett

I’ve moved to Tidal as the much less evil, better paying, + huge song catalogue

You come upon a fog-shrouded theatre town made from planed wooden logs. Heat-tolerant ducks roam about the place.

Another day, another horror.

The “world’s most moral army” is seemingly committing all four kinds of mass atrocity:

- war crimes
- crimes against humanity
- ethnic cleansing
- genocide

Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings launches at Avid Reader, Brisbane on 17 September 2025 O Instore ticket: $15 Ticket & book deal: $45 See details and book at Avid Reader avidreader.com.au/pages/12111-KathleenJennings-Honeyeater

In-person HONEYEATER book launch details, for those in Brisbane!

The cast of ‘HAMILTON’ reunite to perform at the #TonyAwards

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Leslie Odom Jr. reunite at the #TonyAwards for a special ‘HAMILTON’ performance

My 2025 Toolkit Towards Publication course is now open for general registration! Starting next Wednesday 18th June, join me for six Wed nights to learn behind-the-scenes knowledge to help you get published!

Book via website alexadsett.com.au/news-article...

#ToolkitTowardsPublication

It’s a tough life. We can’t all live in sub zero arctic temperatures.

I kept a low profile this trip bc I was racing some deadlines. Karaoke in August?

🗣️ For the first time EVER, a limited amount of Magabala Tees are for sale: bit.ly/magabalamerch

🦅 The Eagle Tee - featuring artwork by Kamsani Bin Salleh from 'Cartwarra or what?' by Alf Taylor
🌿 The Living on Stolen Land Tee - with art from Ambelin Kwaymullina’s classic 'Living on Stolen Land'

So excited to be at the launch of @jodimca.bsky.social new rom com #AnAcademicAffair last night!!!

Agents Alex Adsett, Abigail Nathan and Lisa Fuller on the streets of Melbourne

Literary Agent Alex Adsett, our office manager Amanda, and agent Lisa Fuller.

Agents Alex Adsett and Rochelle Fernandez

It’s been brilliant to hang out in person with my amazing team over the last few weeks! #alexadsettliterary @lisafullerwrites.bsky.social @bothersomewords.bsky.social

Home again after a big few weeks away

Photo of all of my books: These Wild Houses, The Lost Arabs, Non-Essential Work, Son of Sin, and The Nightmare Sequence. Includes the UK cover for Son of Sin (87press) and the US cover of The Lost Arabs (Andrew McMillan)

As we come into the blessed month of PLR/ ELR payments, this is a reminder that you can support authors not just by buying our books but also by borrowing them at your local library or getting them to order a copy if they don't already have it.

New @aurealisawards.bsky.social podcast is live! This time with Alex Adsett, who was a judge for the AAs for quite some time...
@alexadsett.bsky.social

www.podbean.com/eas/pb-xhxar...

A bloke at the dog park said the government was controlling the cyclones. He is accidentally sort of correct | First Dog on the Moon If you don’t believe the scientists, will you believe the insurance companies?

Just another day at the dog park. Or is it? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Holidays! Swapping cyclone for surfing

Kinokuniya books in Sydney has the only copies of Mind-controlling Bugs signed by both the author and illustrator

Another perfect Qld morning & I’m all ready to chat with bestselling crime author Benjamin Stevenson at HOTA for the AACTA Festival.

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Clunes Booktown Saturday sorted. Booked in to attend the Author Pitching Do's and Don'ts with @alexadsett.bsky.social. It's going to be awesome!!
Not to mention so many books to buy!!! Excited!!

Deevers Introduces Slate of Legislation to Restore Moral Sanity in Oklahoma | Oklahoma Senate OKLAHOMA CITY — Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin, announced on Tuesday a bold slate of eight legislative measures aimed at restoring moral sanity in Oklahoma.

This bill in OK is exactly what Project 2025 threatened: to make all pornography illegal, and criminalize the people who make it, using a WILDLY broad definition of pornography, which would include any book with sex in it.

We're talking jail time for romance authors.

oksenate.gov/press-releas...

“Hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope.“ Le Guin

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