Christian White is an Australian author, screenwriter, and producer whose award-winning first novel, the nail-biting suspense story, The Nowhere Child, has already attracted a major screen deal.
Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today Christian White talks about his latest psychological thriller, Wild Place, which raises the question as old as time itself – why do good people do bad things? He also talks about his screen writing, including co-writing the hit Netflix show Clickbait, which went to No 1 in 41 countries.
Links to this episode:
Clickbait Netflix trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwVLObz0MGs
Wild Place: https://www.christian-white.com/wild-place
Director P.T. (Paul Thomas) Anderson: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000759/
Pentecostal snake handling: https://www.ranker.com/list/history-of-pentecostal-snake-handling/quinn-armstrong
West Memphis 3: https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/west-memphis-three-3039/
The Nowhere Child: https://www.christian-white.com/the-nowhere-child
The Wife And The Widow: https://www.christian-white.com/the-wife-and-the-widow
Relic the movie: https://www.christian-white.com/relic-1
J.P.Pomare: https://www.jppomare.com/
Anna Downes: https://anna-downes.com/
Stephen King; https://stephenking.com/
Gillian Flynn: https://www.gillian-flynn.com/
Harlan Coben: https://www.harlancoben.com/
Alex Garland: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/5684.Alex_Garland
The Beach by Alex Garland https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/607639.The_Beach
Haruki Murakami: https://www.harukimurakami.com/
Don Winslow: https://www.donwinslow.com/
Where to find Christian White:
Website: https://www.christian-white.com/
Email Direct: on his website form
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/6872386.Christian_White
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Christian-White/e/B07FZZNLPZ
What follows is a "near as" transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to important mentions.
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What follows is a "near as" transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to the show notes in The Joys of Binge Reading.com for important mentions.
But now, here’s Christian.
Introducing thriller author and screen writer Christian White
Jenny Wheeler: Hello there Christian, and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us.
Christian White: Hello. Thanks for having me. It's exciting.
Christian White - thriller author and screen writer
Jenny Wheeler: You’re in Melbourne, aren't you? We will just establish that for our listeners.
Christian White: Yes, I'm in Melbourne. It is extraordinarily hot today, so it's good that this doesn’t have video because you'd see sweat stains and a sweaty forehead and I've got the air con blasting, but yes, I'm in Melbourne.
Jenny Wheeler: Your first novel, The Nowhere Child, is a nail-biter and you had already attracted a major screen deal for that one. Now you've got to your third book, Wild Place, which is the one we're going to be talking about today. That is just as hard to put down as the first one. You are also the co-creator of a Netflix series called Clickbait which went straight to number one in 40 countries.
You have obviously got a highly developed love of suspense. How did that develop, and where did you get it from, do you think?
Christian White: It took me a long time to figure out that's what I wanted to write, strangely. I was trying to get paid as a writer for about 15 years before I could actually do it for a living. When I first started out,
