Abigail Nathan has run Bothersome Words Editing & Writing Services since 2004. She has edited for Australian publishers including HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Harlequin, Escape and Hachette, as well as UK publishers including Angry Robot, Hachette and Gollancz, and small press in the USA. She works regularly with emerging and self-publishing writers as an editor, mentor, and book coach. In 2023, she joined Alex Adsett Literary as literary agent at large.
She can be found online as @BothersomeWords and at www.BothersomeWords.com
With experience as an editor and literary agent, Abigail is particularly interested in genre fiction, including romance, fantasy and sci-fi, crime, thrillers and mystery, and anything that comes under commercial fiction. She is open to all categories from adult to YA to middle grade and junior fiction, as well as picture books.
Abigail will not be looking at memoir, spiritual or non-fiction manuscripts, and she is not the right fit for literary fiction.
Abigail Nathan - Agent Assessments
Assessment Categories
- Commerical adult fiction
- Crime
- Fantasy
- Junior fiction
- Middle grade
- Mystery
- Romance
- Speculative fiction
- Thrillers
- Women's fiction
- YA writing
Last day to book
07 June
Feedback
No written feedback will be provided
Payment plans
If you want to set up a fortnightly payment plan, use the code CYA26 at checkout. A 15% non-refundable deposit is required upfront for payment plans, with full payment due before your session.
Please note that payment plans aren’t available for early-bird tickets, and each attendee may have one payment plan.
Assessment sessions important information
- In-person assessments are only available to in-person attendees, unless by prior arrangement.
- They are available only to conference, bootcamp, and Writers at Sea Retreat attendees.
- May be booked before the conference, but you must book for the conference by 15 May; otherwise, your session will be cancelled and not refunded.
- A $25.00 administration charge applies if you cancel before 15 May.
- They are non-refundable if cancelled after 15 May, unless we can resell the session.
