Former Mojo Melbourne senior writer Phil Taffs sells world rights of his first novel to Quercus – publishers of ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ series

Former Mojo Melbourne Senior Writer, Phil Taffs, has just sold world rights to his first novel to Quercus in London, publishers of the famous ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo‘ series.

Titled ‘The MacCallum‘, the psycho-thriller is set in New York City where Taffs and his family lived in the early noughties.

Says Taffs: “‘The MacCallum‘ is ‘Mad Men‘ meets ‘The Shining‘ with a ‘Fight Club‘ twist. And parts of it are scarier than some of the briefs I’ve been getting from botoxed 12 year-old account managers recently.”

The book took ten years to write. One of the chapters, Pound of Flesh, won a PEN International Award as a short story. ‘The MacCallum‘ is currently going through the Quercus editorial process and should appear in a few months’ time.

Says Rana Dasgupta, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Fiction: “The MacCallum by Phil Taffs is a chilling, captivating journey and I am left completely dazed by the end of it.”