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Philip Taffs

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in Melbourne, Australia

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Suspense, Thriller, Horror

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I got fired from an ad agency and began writing 'Bubby' that very afternoon.

(Coincidence?)

It was rejected everywhere you can possibly be rejected across 3 continents before finally being picked up by those geniuses at Quercus in London - who were smart enough to also publish 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'.

I had a short story - about Elvis not really being dead and entering an Elvis impersonators competition - published in a generous magazine that paid me $900 when I was broke… and won a PEN International Award for another one about a butcher’s assistant who gets locked in a freezer…but that's another story.

When I'm not writing, I'm watching old movies or screaming at the Carlton Football Club.

It's hard to believe but I have two sons who ...more

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