2 July 2018
Melbourne author Christian White's life changed almost overnight when an early draft of his riveting debut thriller, The Nowhere Child, scooped the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript last year.
The 37-year-old occasional screenwriter was overwhelmed when a bidding war broke out over the book, crediting his agents, RGM, with keeping him right.
"I was lucky I was already working with them on a couple of screenwriting gigs, because otherwise I would have no idea what I was doing. I'd probably have accepted $5."