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Richard Harrison

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My name is Richard Harrison. I am an Australian author, entrepreneur and cricket umpire.
I live in Hastings on the Mornington Peninsula, where every morning I watch the sun rise over Victoria’s Westernport Bay.

I am a cricket fan and passionate Collingwood supporter in the AFL.

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The Writer's Group

Several years ago when I first starting writing my novel, I rang an organization in Melbourne (based in Fitzroy from memory) that purported to offer advice to aspiring authors.

I remember speaking to a rather stern and proper woman who assured me 'Well of course it's very, very difficult to get anything published.' She then went on to ask 'Is yours a literary work?

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“My body froze and my heart raced, as I let rip with a breathless scream. It felt like I was being stabbed by hundreds of tiny ice daggers, as the filthy surge ran down my legs and flooded my boots. I clung to the ladder, shaking and shivering, all the while cursing the abominable English climate. I”
Richard Harrison, The Export Gardener: A Clumsy Australian Starts a Gardening Business in the UK, not Knowing a Weed from a Wisteria.

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.”
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