As it turned out, it was also her wedding day. The day her book went to auction it was a very memorable moment for the author Jane Harper. The deal was for 3 books, so the author had to start writing another two novels on top of The Dry.

Not only she got the award but she also found agent representation through Curtis Brown Australia, which managed to sell her unpublished novel through auction to Pan Macmillan the very same year through a fierce bidding war. The next month, in May, she has learned that she won the award. However, since she already had the unpublished manuscript, she fixed it up a bit and got it ready to be published, and then Jane decided to enter the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2015 in April, which earned her $15,000. She initially considered it as a practice piece, not one that she thought would see the day of light as a crime mystery book. The extract was set in Victoria in Australia, and during the 12 weeks of the online writing course, she managed to finish a first draft of what would become her debut novel, The Dry. During the application process, she submitted a synopsis, as well as a 3000-word part of a novel, with the theme of a murder mystery. In late 2014, Jane decided to try her hands at writing books, so she applied for the Curtis Brown Creative 12-week online novel writing course. The author mentioned in an interview that she thinks of Geelong as her “spiritual home.” She worked for the Geelong Advertiser until 2011, when she started working with the Herald Sun in Melbourne. Next, she became the Hull Daily Mail’s senior news journalist where she remained until 2008 when she moved again to Australia to live the next three years in a small community called Geelong. Her first job as a reporter was in County Durhan in Yorkshire as an apprentice. Next, she enrolled at the University of Kent in Canterbury where she studied English and History.Īfter graduating from uni, she started working as a print journalist, a job that she held for 13 years. She spent her next six years in Boronia, Victoria, during which time she got her Australian citizenship as well.Īfter some years, as a teenager of age 14, she returned to the UK with her family where she lived in Hampshire for the next several years and finished high school. At the age of 8, she moved with her family to Australia. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk #2), 2018 (published in 2017 in Australia)īritish author Jane Harper was born in Manchester, in the UK.The Dry (Aaron Falk #1), 2017 (published in 2016 in Australia).New Jane Harper Books The Survivors, 2020 New books are added as soon as the latest Jane Harper books are published. Last Updated on FebruJane Harper is a debut mystery author of 2016, so the Jane Harper books in order are included at this time with a very short list.

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