The celebrated crime writer’s new Storm Child is the fourth in a series featuring forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven.
Just over 20 years ago, the first 117 pages of a crime novel by a former journalist and ghostwriter sparked a bidding war in the international publishing world. As Michael Robotham describes it, “Three o’clock in the morning and we were in bed on the northern beaches and the phone was ringing saying there are five American publishers bidding and four German publishers bidding, and three French publishers bidding. And the Dutch have offered this and this.
Robotham recalls his first writers festival gig in Melbourne in 2004, perched on a panel as the complete unknown between such luminaries as Michael Connelly and Harlan Coben. “Of course Harlan and Michael were huge names at that point. I’d only just had my first book published,” he says. “came out in March of that year, and it had been huge all around the world, except in Australia.”
Having just returned from a pre-publicity tour in the UK, Robotham, who has hitherto located his books there, says he told his publishers that wanted to write a novel set in Australia. “And instead of getting that reaction of 15 years ago, the gritted teeth and ‘Do you think that’s wise? You know, you might sort of upset your readers’, I got the reaction ‘What a brilliant idea’.” The tide, it would seem, has turned and a number of Australians are now surfing the wave.
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