![]() ![]() "For it to get published and be so embraced by readers around the world is wonderful, because I never really had any ambition for that debut beyond just finishing it. It went on to sell more than a million copies. ![]() ![]() "With two major life events happening at once, it was a really special day," recalls Harper, who soon found herself in possession of a six-figure, three-book publishing deal for Australia, the US and Britain, followed by a movie deal. For it was on her wedding day, four years ago exactly, that her debut novel, The Dry, also went to auction in Australia. If Harper needed any reminder of just how radically her life has changed, her wedding anniversary, the day before we speak, was it. So it's a dream scenario, really, beyond anything that I had expected to happen." ![]() Now I get to be a full-time author, I have a daughter who's nearly three, I'm having another baby in November, and I'm working on book four. "When I wrote The Dry I was working full-time as a journalist and that was all I'd ever done professionally. "It's been a really big four years," says the 39-year-old author of The Dry, Force of Nature and The Lost Man. Now she's considered one of Australia's foremost fiction writers with three mystery novels to her credit, a swag of awards, upwards of a million in sales and a movie deal to boot. Four years ago, Jane Harper was a virtually unknown finance journalist on a Melbourne newspaper. ![]()
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