Stephen B King

I’ve wanted to be a writer all my adult life, so I’m officially living my own dream now. I just wish I had more time to write more. I’m a fiercely patriotic Australian, even though I was born in the U.K. and came over at age 16; as the saying, and very famous poem goes, “I love a sunburnt country.” Funnily enough, my first publisher, who was British, wanted me to set my first book in London, rather than my home city of Perth, I refused, and they assured me it would result in fewer sales. Maybe that was petulance on my part, but what’s interesting is that my US publisher now loves that my books are set in Australia. My first audio book, Thirty-Three Days has an amazing Australian actor, Geoffrey Boyes, perform the narration and he has a rich, caring, engaging voice that for me, epitomizes the relaxed Australian psyche I love so much.