The ASA offers these links to external websites for information only. The ASA offers no endorsement or recommendation of the information or services that may be provided on these websites.  Due diligence must always be exercised when entering into any commercial undertaking.

Copyright Clearance Assistance
Editorial Services
Ghostwriting Services
Literary Agents

See Writers' Services (Part 2) for the following links:
Manuscript Assessment Services
Professional Development
Protocols
Self Publishing Services
Writers' Promotional

Copyright Clearance Assistance
Clearing permissions for use of third party material can be an author's most time consuming task. The following sites may help ease the workload.
Australian Picture and Copyright Association (APACA) -- pictorial clearances
Australian Performing Rights Association/AMCOS (clearance for music and song lyrics)
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) -- a starting point for text clearances
VISCOPY -- clearances for works by visual artists

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Editorial Services
Society of Editors Victoria
Freelance Editors in Canberra
Society of Editors Queensland
Society of Editors South Australia
Society of Editors Tasmania
Society of Editors Western Australia
Society of Editors New South Wales

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Ghostwriting Services
The ASA recommends that anyone contemplating engaging a ghostwriter purchase and read the ASA Paper "Ghostwriting Agreement and Contact List". The paper can be purchased by non-members for $11, or downloaded for free by ASA Members, and includes a ghostwriting agreement template and full contact details of ghostwriters around Australia.

Literary Agents
The ASA recommends that the relationship between author and agent should be subject to certain conditions.These are set out in the Free ASA Paper "Literary Agent & Author Agrement", which can be downloaded here.

The Australian Association of Literary Agents(ALAA) lists members of the Association.
Author Advance, "the largest and most complete database of literary agents and agencies on the web" is a database of agents from around the world.

Members of the ASA offering agent services and who are not included in the ALAA list are listed below. The ASA reserves the right to remove the names of any agents whose practices are brought into question by ASA members.

Preditors and Editors contains information and warnings about some US agents and publishers. The ASA has no connection to this site.

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