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When Brisbane literary agent Alex Adsett gets a phone call from an upbeat author landing their first book deal, it typically goes in one of two ways. ‘More often, it’s the very nervous, very author happy to get any publishing deal at all.
‘Those authors, I really need to say to them, “you really need to value yourself and value your work, and negotiate this. Remember you don’t have to accept anything that is offered to you”.
