What’s it like to write Clickbait? Christian White knows

When we first spoke to Christian White in November 2019, he wasn’t allowed to talk about Clickbait, the eight-part Netflix Originals series he co-created, co-wrote and coproduced with showrunner Tony Ayres. We hadn’t even had a chance to see Relic (released in 2020), the stunning psychological horror film starring Robyn Nevin that he co-wrote with director Natalie Erika James. White was best known as an author, for his page-turning thrillers. There were the novels The Nowhere Child (which won the Premier’s Literary Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript in 2017 and set off a publisher’s bidding war and four-book deal with Affirm Press) and The Wife and the Widow.