The dry author jane harper6/8/2023 ![]() But then my approach to it changed: I realized that actually I wanted to do it badly enough that I just wanted to write the book-it didn’t matter so much what happened afterwards-I just wanted to see if I could do it. In hindsight, that held me back for years, really. And, I guess, of seeing the disappearance of a dream not being realized. And one of the things that held me back was this fear of putting in all this time and effort and not being successful and it being a waste of time. I’d wanted to write a book for years, ever since I was a kid, really. “But maybe the realization of that was a really important mental step for me. “I didn’t know it was going to work out,” says Harper of that focused, pre-publication, and clearly productive time. ![]() That award was instrumental in gaining publishing deals: The Dry debuted in 2016 in Australia, Force of Nature was published in 2017, and The Lost Man in 2018. ![]() In 2014, she pursued an online writing course, and, the following year, won the prestigious Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for The Dry. Even as a full-time business reporter, Harper knew she had a book she wanted to write, squeezing in fiction writing time before and after her journalism workday. ![]()
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