She realised she was just going to have to push herself. "I always thought I would one day have this great idea and this block of time and it would all beautifully come together and I'd suddenly have this book," she says.īut a decade went by, and that perfect time never arrived. Get startedīefore she wrote The Dry, Harper was a full-time journalist who'd always wanted to write a novel. While at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Harper revealed the secrets to writing a bestselling novel. Harper's second book, Force of Nature, has been another bestseller, and she has another on its way.
The movie rights have been sold to Reese Witherspoon's production company, and the script is complete. Today, Harper is still riding high on the success of The Dry. The book raced on to bestseller lists around the world, won multiple awards, and was sold to more than 20 foreign language territories. Readers loved it for its tight pace, its awkward, lovable hero and its satisfying "whodunnit" reveal. Critics loved The Dry for its elegant structure, Australian voice, and Harper's ability to vividly paint a landscape in the grip of drought. "I like books with a bit of mystery and suspense," the former journalist says. The fast paced, hard-edged crime novel was the kind of novel Harper had always wanted to write. She enrolled in an online writing course, and in just twelve weeks had completed her first draft of The Dry.
In 2014, Jane Harper decided she was finally going to do it - she was going to write a book.
It's the kind of success story writers dream of.
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