![]() The Hunted, too, began as a novella called Sunburnt Country, following the story of backpacker Simon – a “naive Melbourne Uni student who is very much a thinly veiled stand-in for me”. Of that course he says: “You come out with a real understanding of how to structure a story, a theme, all those important things, but it does sort of leave you flailing and thinking, ‘How do I take all these things and turn them into a viable career?” Still, Bergmoser did make a quiet living, supplementing his writing with tutoring and, he reveals, by ghostwriting erotic Amish fiction and other short romance novellas. The book deal was a major change for the 28-year-old author, who had previously published three young adult novels with a small Australian press and won a TV scriptwriting award after a master’s in screenwriting. “I was sitting there waiting for them to come back saying, ‘Get this person help’, so it’s so awesome to hear that people are enjoying it.” An agent signed him up, and he soon had book deals with HarperCollins in Australia and Faber in the UK, and a film deal with Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures. ![]() I couldn’t tell with any objectivity whether it worked.” “I hadn’t really written horror before, so I was thinking: ‘Have I screwed this up?’ I was kind of flying blind with it. I was overwhelmed with regret,” Bergmoser says, speaking from Melbournejust as it goes back into lockdown. “I hit the send button and I immediately just said, ‘Fuck’.
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