All characters appearing this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. While Port Coogee, WA, is an actual location, the defining characteristics of this housing development in this novel are the work of the author’s imagination. In fact, some of the author’s best friends live there.
I’d like to thank the Asialink Foundation for supporting my two-month residency in Shanghai and enabling me to get a glimpse of daily life in such an amazing city. Thanks to my hosts, the Shanghai Writers Association, for their hospitality, advice, and network of fabulous contacts. Thanks also, as ever, to Dr Isaac Harvey for his ongoing medical expertise and no, he’s not really an internet troll and does not have a frullet. Alain Otto is to thank/blame for supplying me with the ‘yesterdie’ joke. Thanks also to the team at Fremantle Press for all their support and efforts on behalf of Cato and myself. In particular my editor, Georgia Richter, who continues to keep me grammatically honest and is generous with her editorial wisdom and guidance. Thank you too to my agent Clive Newman for working to ensure Cato has a few more adventures in him yet. Finally my beautiful wife Kath and son Liam who continue to support me in my literary endeavours and put up with those long periods when I stare into space and conjure up terrible things.
Bad Seed is an Asialink Arts Residency Project supported by the Department of Culture and the Arts, WA.
