Philip Taffs

I got fired from an ad agency and began writing ‘Bubby' that very afternoon.

(Coincidence?)

Originally titled ‘The Evil Inside’, it was rejected everywhere you can possibly

be rejected across 3 continents before finally being picked up by those geniuses

at Quercus in London - who were smart enough to also publish 'The Girl with the

Dragon Tattoo'.

I had a short story - about Elvis not really being dead and entering an Elvis

impersonators competition - published in a generous magazine that paid me 900 Dollars

when I was broke… and won a PEN International Award for another one about a

butcher’s assistant who gets locked in a freezer.

When I'm not writing, I'm watching old movies or screaming at the Carlton

Football Club.

It's hard to believe but I have two sons who love me.