Michael Robotham
Michael Robotham
Michael Robothamis an Australian crime fiction writer. His daughter is the ARIA and APRA Award nominated songwriter, producer and musician, Alex Hope...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 November 1960
CountryAustralia
became feature job legends needed pop quit senior soldiers sports sunday writer
In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies.
capturing hardest stories
The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them.
critical gratuitous novels offer perhaps readers shock
I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job.
bad dreams normally
I normally sleep very well, but when I do have bad dreams, they always involve my children.