Her writing process and how she did it.
Sarah’s fourth book, The Housemate, comes out in Australia on Tuesday, August 31.
It follows the story of Melbourne crime reporter Olive Groves, who was one of the first reporters on the scene of the infamous ‘Housemate Homicide’ in the early 2000s, which left one housemate dead, one missing and one charged with murder.
When the missing housemate turns up dead almost a decade later, Olive is once again covering the case and is about to find out the truth is closer to home than she thought.
That book too began with a basic premise.
“I had an idea I’d been playing around with for a while just like a dinner party kind of gone wrong,” Sarah explained.
As for writing your own book or starting your own creative project, Sarah’s advice is simple.
“I mean, it sounds really simplistic, but start it,” she said.
“Yeah, I think you’ve just got to decide if you really want to do it, because I think if you want to do it, everything else will work around that.”
Sarah Bailey is a Melbourne-based writer with a background in advertising and communications. She has two young children and is currently the Managing Partner of advertising agency VMLY&R in Melbourne. Her internationally award-winning Gemma Woodstock trilogy includes The Dark Lake, published in 2017 and winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and the Davitt Award for Best Debut, followed by Into the Night in 2018, and Where the Dead Go in 2019. Sarah’s fourth book, The Housemate, is available from Booktopia and all good bookstores from Tuesday, August 31. You can follow
Sarah on Instagram here.
