{"id":2550,"date":"2014-09-20T21:58:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2016-04-17T23:06:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T13:06:52","slug":"galactic-chat-interview-alex-adsett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?p=2550","title":{"rendered":"Galactic Chat interview – Alex Adsett"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Long term gentle readers of the blog\u00a0are aware of my dalliance with the\u00a0Galactic Chat podcast<\/a>, interviewing the occasional unsuspecting member of the Australian speculative fiction community\u00a0before their agent tells them it is a bad idea.<\/p>\n

Well, this fortnight I decided to skip the middle-person and went straight to interviewing an agent, on the premise that presumably she<\/strong> wouldn’t have anyone to warn her. “Who agents the agents?” I thought to myself. “She’ll never see it coming. It’s fool proof.”<\/p>\n

I then may or may not have let out a maniacal cackle.<\/p>\n

Alex Adsett, of Alex Adsett Publishing Services<\/a>, was kind enough to fall into my trap<\/span> come on the podcast and answer all kinds of questions relating to what’s interesting in the Australian speculative fiction scene, when an author needs an agent and some tips when considering contracts, amongst many other topics.<\/p>\n

She was articulate, knowledgeable, engaging and passionate in her advocation for her authors. Sounds like everything someone\u00a0might look for in an agent.<\/p>\n

The interview is online now – you can find it on the Galactic Chat website under episode 55<\/a>,\u00a0on iTunes or\u00a0wherever good podcasts are sold.<\/p>\n

Do yourself a favour and check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>Hi,\n

Welcome to Mark Webb’s author website. At this point the site is rather sparse – I’ve only recently started writing and there isn’t a lot to show for it right now. You can check out\u00a0my biography<\/a>, see …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[149,121,15],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alex-adsett","tag-galactic-chat","tag-specfic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}