It was movie critic Joe Queenan’s The Unkindest Cut, which describes how he made a low-budget feature film. Graeme Simsion: I read a book - literally the book that changed my life. What inspired you to sell your business and become a writer? Simsion recently spoke to Bookselling This Week about the winding path that led to him to The Rosie Project and what booksellers can expect from him next.īookselling This Week: You have accomplished every aspiring writer’s dream: to land at the top of bookseller, librarian, and reviewer favorites lists - internationally, no less - with a first novel. With plenty of twists and turns, Don and Rosie’s friendship blossoms into something more in a tale that booksellers have described as charming, hilarious, and pitch perfect. When the fiery Rosie enters his life, Don soon becomes enmeshed in the search for her biological father.

The Rosie Project follows the quirky Don Tillman as he searches for his perfect partner - a highly calculated task he calls The Wife Project. The Rosie Project won the 2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript in Australia, Simsion’s home, and caught the attention of publishers worldwide. The founder of an information systems consulting business, Simsion was inspired by a book - “literally the book that changed my life,” he says - to turn toward the pursuit of creative endeavors, including screenwriting and, ultimately, the crafting of his bestselling debut novel.

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