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A Brisbane based author has today spoken to The Advocate about the exciting new challenge ahead of him.
Fresh off the back of a big 12 months creating a fictional universe where youth crime is rampant in the dystopian state of Queensland, Courier Mail author Paddington Annerley says he excited for his next project.
The Liberal National Party’s resurrection of Queensland’s faltering economy.
“Yes, it’s an ambitious project but something I’m really looking forward to taking my creative licence to,” said Annerley, from his gorgeous Ascot home.
“I mean, it’s a wonderful concept,” he mused.
This follows Annerley’s most recent work where he managed to take record low youth crime statistics in Queensland and used them as the genesis of a series of short stories about an ‘epidemic of young criminals terrorising the state.’
Although Queensland Police figures reveal a reduction in the rate of youth offences of 6.7%, and the total number of unique youth offenders has reduced by 2% since last financial year and by 18% since 2012/13 – Annerley says that didn’t really make for a page turner.
“Oh writing little stories about cherry picked incidents committed by juvenile offenders is much more colourful,” he laughed.
“And I think the public really liked it.”
“So now it’s time to craft a story about the transition to a new utopia lead by an incredible government that rescued the economy from the very brink.”
“It could be my most ambitious work yet.”
More to come.
