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Potato Shaped Man's avatar

Gonna be a good fucking year.

Electronical. Gonna be tossing that around at work on the regular now. Make me look edumacated.

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Lara Wilde's avatar

I need audio versions. Lots of driving. No time to chill and read.

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John Birmingham's avatar

I'm talking with Audible this week!

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Glenn's avatar

Best news in ages. I found you originally on Audible. It's all I listen to these days . Hope you can make a deal that works for you. Love your work, thanks

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Danny's avatar

WOOHOO!!

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John Birmingham's avatar

I just accepted an offer from Audible.

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Lara Wilde's avatar

WOOHOO!!!

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Elana Mitchell's avatar

YES!!! 🙌

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William Ferguson's avatar

Yes YES !!!YES!!! And yes some more. Bring on August and December. Will there be print versions to sit next to my other ones or am I going to have to illuminate my face?

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John Birmingham's avatar

Indeed

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Greybeard's avatar

Bloody Menzies! (Pronounced mingiz or Pig-iron Bob according to taste.) I had enough of that old bastard faux-Englishman the first time around. Did you know that when we changed to decimal currency he proposed calling it the "Royal"? I have a yellowed newspaper clipping from the time. Not to mention his khaki elections and "oh please Sir, could you invite us to this Vietnam thingy? We haven't had a war for ever so long." Lord Warden of the Sunk Fallacy or whatever Liz called him...

Sorry. I know he's been rehabilitated in recent years as being less socially conservative than Abbott, Morrison et al, but I'll happily send you a bottle of the good scotch if something nasty happens to him this time around.

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John Birmingham's avatar

Maybe I could run a competition to decide his fate.

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Dave W's avatar

I vote for taken by submarine!

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Formerly Known as Simon's avatar

although i applaud this reference i'm always partial to a good tropical flesh eating virus

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insomniac's avatar

He discovers through modern DNA testing techniques that he is Tony Abbott's father, knows what happens in the first couple of decades of the new millennium, commits infanticide, and spends his remaining days equally reviled and cheered by future conservatives and liberals.

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William Ferguson's avatar

Cthulhu ..

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Tweeky's avatar

I was wondering when World War 3.2 was going to be published, do you have a publication for it please? As for Menzies I know bugger all about so I can't really comment (I'm a New Zealander by the way) on him.

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Tweeky's avatar

Edit: I hadn't read all the way through your snippet before I realised that WW3.2 is likely out in August (Next month, Yay!) followed by WW3.3 this Christmas. Anyway when they're published will the paperback editions be published the at the same time as the Kindle editions?

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John Birmingham's avatar

You betcha! I resisted doing paperbacks for years because I thought they were too expensive, but someone just reminded me how expensive they are in bookshops these days.

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Tweeky's avatar

Will you be putting the WW3.2 entry onto the Amazon website soon? I checked shortly after I read your announcement about WW3.2 and I couldn't find an entry for WW3.2 there.

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John Birmingham's avatar

Thereby hangs a tale. They originally commissioned the series, but their lawyers freaked out when they realised that Harry was a character. So they backed out. I was just thinking yesterday that I should probably sell the rights to someone else.

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Tony Loro's avatar

Yeah, you do good fights. I like it your characters occasionally get the shit out of them.

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