Strangely enough before writing Dying to Know, I was more afraid of seeing a ghost than of dying. Go figure! So that was one of my personal demons that I need to confront in the book however it wasn’t as straight forward as it seemed and I wasn’t going to get away with just a gentle experience. But why so afraid of ghosts? I grew up in a house that was mildly haunted where most of family saw the ghost but I didn’t and I think the potential of seeing one as a kid, was more frightening than actually coming face to face with one. I was one of those ‘creative’ children and my imagination was highly overactive and I reckon I scared myself shitless with my own stories!
However when I grew up and got to be so interested in the afterlife, I desperately wanted to see a ghost so I could prove that life did continue on, yet I was still carrying that fear from childhood which I think created some kind of block and I never ended up seeing one (either that or ghosts found me plainly boring!).
To get a sense of how my fear was so palatable, I’d lie awake at night with a lump in throat and shaking all over and that was just thinking about doing the ghost hunt experience for the book!
But you know what? I did it, I faced my biggest fear and I survived and I’m so glad I did.
I got to stand in the middle of an extremely haunted building in the dark and ask the question “If there’s anyone here, can you please make a sound or make yourself known” and not shit my pants.
And of course you can read all about it when the book comes out early next year.
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After failing high school twice and spending a ridiculous amount of time being unemployed, Josh went onto create a successful career as an award winning radio creative writer and award winning non fiction author. In May 2018 he won the Australian Book Industry Awards, Small Publishers Children’s book of the Year and his new book, 'Find Your Creative Mojo: How to overcome fear, procrastination and self-doubt to express your true self' is available now.
Josh also runs Outside Creative, an advertising copywriting business with his partner Andy Macleod.
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