In the short biography at the front of his books, the Norwegian crime writer introduction to psychol

In the short biography at the front of his books, the Norwegian crime writer introduction to psychology Jo Nesbø lists four careers, the first three of which are "musician", "songwriter" and "economist". As he told a large audience yesterday at the Theakston Old Peculier introduction to psychology Crime Writing Festival , his friends had talked endlessly about the great novels they were working on. Great unwritten ones, as it turned out. For his fourth career, Nesbø tried a different approach: whatever he wrote, he would finish.
In 1996, Nesbø got on a plane from Oslo and flew to Australia. By the end of the 24-hour flight he had a plot. He went to a hotel in Sydney, feeling jet-lagged, and starting writing about a detective called Harry Hole arriving at the same hotel and feeling jet-lagged. He worked fast because he wanted to get to the end—which is why he made his central character introduction to psychology a loner, an alcoholic, a womaniser, a cynic and a romantic. He knew these were "all the clichés" about the middle-aged male detective, but his model was the graphic artist Frank Miller. "You embraced the clichés," he told the audience at Harrogate, "You took them a step further."
Five weeks later, Nesbø introduction to psychology returned home and sent his manuscript to a publisher hoping he would receive a little encouragement for his next effort. But the publisher wanted to go with this one. Fifteen more books have followed; eight of these are available in English, but not the first one. A Norwegian detective going to Australia might interest Scandinavian readers but the thinking has been that non-Scandinavian readers want their Norwegian detectives to hang around the dark icy streets of Oslo and Bergen.

So it's only now, 15 years later, that “Flaggermusmannen” (or “The Batman") is going to be published in English—this time as "The Bat". The book takes its title from an aboriginal myth about a batman, but Warner Brothers wouldn't let Nesbø use the title as they had a batman story of their own. Nesbø argued that the aboriginal myth of the batman had been around 40,000 years longer than the Warner Bros franchise, but the Warner Bros lawyers introduction to psychology weren't having it.
Since that five-week trip to Australia, introduction to psychology Nesbø has sold 14m books. There are movies too: "Headhunters" was released last year, and Martin Scorsese is down to direct "The Snowman". But Nesbø told the audience yesterday that he was still surprised to see copies of his books in a shop in Manila. He offered to sign them. The bookseller declined the offer because he said the author introduction to psychology was a woman (in the Philippines, Jo is a girl's name). Nesbø explained that his name was also Jo. The bookseller asked if he had any ID to prove it. He said he hadn't. The bookseller said that if Nesbø came back the next day with his ID, he would let him sign the books.
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