Selwa's Career

Selwa's career began in the book section of a large department store in the 1960's. A decade later she was the retail and marketing manager in Sydney for a major book company, where she was the first manager to feature Australian books at the front of the store. During this time she also had her own radio book chat program, syndicated throughout Australia, and reviewed books on the Midday Movie Show with Bill Collins.

In 1984, the Selwa Anthony Author Management Agency was born. Selwa credits best-selling Australian author Colleen McCollough with her becoming an authors agent, after Colleen said this of her:

"Selwa has the best eye for a manuscript of anyone I have known and should become a literary agent."

The success of three writers - the late Evan Green, Jennifer Bacia and Di Morrissey - was the foundation on which Selwa's very successful stable of popular fiction authors was built. The Selwa Anthony Author Management Agency now represents over 50 published writers, covering every area of commercial publishing from popular fiction and literary, to autobiographies and new age books, science fiction and fantasy novels.