Aaron Lamb is a self-published author who outsold George Orwell and Margaret Atwood.
For 24 hours.
I was born into the UK poverty line, in a dilapidated house with a cracked bathroom window, no bath or shower, and ice collecting in the basin sink. It’s been a wild ride getting from there to here.
Since then I’ve hosted and performed in a burlesque show in front of 300 people, spent 20 years working with a charity in eastern Cambodia, trekked 600 kilometres solo inside the Arctic Circle in northern Norway, and run a 100km ultramarathon.
I wrote my first book on the back of ticket rolls at a multiplex cinema in London and I haven’t stopped writing stories since. Five novels later, the latest one, Cults, Coffee and Close Encounters, hit number 1 on Amazon Australia for dystopian fiction and broke into the top 100 books in the country. Which is how I ended up outselling Orwell. Briefly.
I’ve spoken at writers’ festivals, been interviewed on RRR, and sat down with Michael Cathcart on ABC Radio National Books and Arts. I’m also on the board of the Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival.
Author Aaron Lamb and ABC RN host Micheal Cathcart.
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