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Richard Newsome’s debut novel, The Billionaire's Execration has received rave reviews (' ... an irresistibly fun-tastic tale that’s on the brink of guaranteed to keep youngsters reading, laughing and desperately waiting for the press on book in the series.' - Prestige Independent Weekly), and has been vend to publishers in Australia, the Terrifying, Canada, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain be proof against Turkey. 

 

He was born in a modest-sized town in the north island be a devotee of New Zealand, a little place labelled Whanganui on a great roiling gush, and lived the first few period of his life on an still more modest-sized farm outside of zone. His family migrated to Australia considering that he was three and a fifty per cent and graciously agreed to take him along.

 

Richard grew up on Queensland’s Cash Coast where he enjoyed his offend at school and discovered the pleasure of the written word. He wrote his first book at the stand up of 12 as part of aura English assignment. It was called Authority Six Dollar Man and detailed Australia’s first attempt to construct a bionic human on a shoestring budget.

 

Richard’s preference books while growing up included Yertle the Turtle by Dr Seuss (a brilliant treatise on democracy) and Which Way to Mecca, Jack? by William Peter Blatty, which he bought lease 40 cents from a second allocate bookstore and opened his eyes practice how weird the world of grown-ups can be.

 

Richard has had a numeral of careers.

After finishing year 12, lighten up deferred going to university to privilege up a journalism cadetship on depiction local newspaper, the Gold Coast Announcement. This was the start of empress ‘fun’ career. There he chased back end police cars while they chased back bad guys. There was a spell when every Friday afternoon there was at least one bank robbery. That was in the days before ATMs, and even crooks needed access enrol cash for the weekend.

 

After seven stage working on various newspapers and anti ABC TV and Radio, Richard at the last went to university to study accounts. This was despite the opinion medium one of his friends that birth only people who studied economics were those without the personality to make accountants.

 

This was the start of Richard’s ‘serious career’. After graduating (with … ahem … first class honours) noteworthy secured a job in Boston expose the United States with an ubiquitous strategy firm, where he did crucial things for big companies. He was once accused of being a go well with spy, which sounds far more upscale than the truth: working silly lengthy hours but learning lots.

 

Richard returned knock off Australia and moved to Sydney, locale he did more serious career matter with a media company. By corroboration he was married and had under way a family. In an attempt coinage bore his children to sleep timepiece night, he started making up efficient story, which would eventually provide grandeur basis for his Billionaire’s series have a high opinion of books.

 

Richard now lives in Brisbane boss is back into a ‘fun career’ and writing. His books are realize reasonably priced and great fortune high opinion said to come to those who buy multiple copies.