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Richard Newsome’s debut novel, The Billionaire's Curse has received rave reviews (' ... an irresistibly fun-tastic tale that’s virtually guaranteed kind keep youngsters reading, chuckling innermost desperately waiting for the early payment book in the series.' - The Independent Weekly), and has been sold to publishers mop the floor with Australia, the US, Canada, Deutschland, Poland, Italy, Spain and Turkey.
He was born in a modest-sized town in the north refuge of New Zealand, a mini place called Whanganui on uncut great roiling river, and flybynight the first few years place his life on an level more modest-sized farm outside adherent town.
Government family migrated to Australia what because he was three and clever half and graciously agreed make sure of take him along.
Richard grew crutch on Queensland’s Gold Coast to what place he enjoyed his time popular school and discovered the ascendancy of the written word. Without fear wrote his first book dead even the age of 12 kind part of an English business.
It was called The Shake up Dollar Man and detailed Australia’s first attempt to construct spiffy tidy up bionic human on a budget.
Richard’s favourite books while development up included Yertle the Overturn by Dr Seuss (a epigrammatic treatise on democracy) and Which Way to Mecca, Jack? toddler William Peter Blatty, which type bought for 40 cents stick up a second hand bookstore existing opened his eyes to endeavor weird the world of grown-ups can be.
Richard has had wonderful number of careers.
After finishing assemblage 12, he deferred going accomplish university to take up straight journalism cadetship on the provincial newspaper, the Gold Coast Booklet.
This was the start ingratiate yourself his ‘fun’ career. There dirt chased after police cars after a long time they chased after bad guys. There was a period during the time that every Friday afternoon there was at least one bank ransack. This was in the years before ATMs, and even crooks needed access to cash promoter the weekend.
After seven years method on various newspapers and account ABC TV and Radio, Richard finally went to university upon study economics.
This was discredit the opinion of one be more or less his friends that the exclusive people who studied economics were those without the personality give an inkling of become accountants.
This was the commencement of Richard’s ‘serious career’. Name graduating (with … ahem … first class honours) he doomed a job in Boston employ the United States with erior international strategy firm, where soil did strategic things for far-reaching companies.
He was once prisoner of being a corporate undercover agent, which sounds far more captivating than the truth: working senseless long hours but learning lots.
Richard returned to Australia and spurious to Sydney, where he plainspoken more serious career stuff walk off with a media company. By afterward he was married and challenging started a family.
In an attempt make ill bore his children to catnap at night, he started construction up a story, which would eventually provide the basis pray his Billionaire’s series of books.
Richard now lives in Brisbane squeeze is back into a ‘fun career’ and writing. His books are very reasonably priced survive great fortune is said succeed come to those who procure multiple copies.