Fat Paddlers current home. Chained to the desk writing....
You may be wondering why I haven’t updated the site lately. Sure, I’ve been out for a few paddles, in fact I’ve got quite a few stories backed up ready to go up on site. But I don’t have time at the moment because a major project is coming to a close.
You see, over the past five months I’ve been writing a book. A book about trauma, about recovery, and about a love of paddling. A book about… you guessed it…. a book about the Fat Paddler.
And right now I’m working to a deadline, a hard deadline that falls next monday. If I don’t finish by then, then there wont be any book. So all my writing resources are focused there, during every spare moment I have!
I did however want to share a photo with you instead, a peace offering to carry you through until I return, so here is a photo of sausages I cooked on New Years Eve!
Chorizo sauteed in olive oil with onion and garlic, tossed with fresh continental parsley
That’s if from me… got to get back to the book. Looking forward to seeing the other side of next Monday when I promise I’ll start putting some more stories up. Oh, and if you’re interested, the book is due out in Australia sometime around August this year, and hopefully globally not long after that. Cheers! – FP
P.s. If you want to make sure it gets published in your country, leave a comment saying so! If enough of you and your country men and women comment the publishers might just take notice. 😉
I hope you’ve got a warehouse and a team of “expeditors” lined-up. Your American fans are hungry for this book, and we’re not taking chorizo for an answer.
her her judy.
same in canada!!!
Correction:
*here here
LOL
I think, Jimbo, that it is actually “Hear, Hear!”, as used in the British Parliament in the 18th century. Now that I’m a snooty writer, I can say things like that. 😉
we want your book here in Thunder Bay, Canada in abundance, just like our snow 🙂
AMERICA LOVES YOU!!! SEND US COPIES PUHLEEZE!!!
You simply MUST get published in Canada! No ifs, ands, or buts about it… (no matter how bit that butt is!) It’s practically a law that all paddling books must be made available to Canadians! I think it’s called the International Voyageur’s UN Clause, Subsection 5, Historical Treaty #45637C.
Ha – I’m as bad as Jim! I meant no matter how BIG that butt is – not “bit”! Looks like I need a proof reader! LOL
Another vote for Canada!
stop posting, start writing 😉
cheers, Dez
Chorizo sauteed in olive oil with onion and garlic, tossed with fresh continental parsley……that aint like the sausages I eat.
Lee – I’m guessing since you’re in the Canadian Armed Forces, that you’d prefer to catch a moose by hand, turn it inside-out into its own intestines, and eat it raw because fires don’t burn in the icy lands of Newfoundland? 😉
FP – I’m really hoping that this book will be available in the U.S. I’m looking forward to reading it!
Cheers Helen, I’m hoping so too!
Send the book to Canada or we will send our prisoners to Australia, after all you’re just a much bigger, drier, hotter Alcatraz aren’t you?
PS: Fiona is right about the UN Charter thingamajig
Another Canadian wants to read your book! Send me an e-mail and tell me about it! I’ll tell you about my latest book, too.
Congratulations on the book deal. I hope to read a post from you about how you sold the idea to the publisher. I also want to see you do a book tour here in the states; you possibly could set something up at the Sweetwater Kayak Symposium in 2012. PS. will you be offering a cookbook? That Chorizo looks great!
FP what you doing reading this…..get back to work!!
Hugs
Jill
Great to hear about the autobiography(?) Can’t wait to get my hands on a rare personally signed copy!
I have visions of a heady mix of Hemingway epic, Melville introspection, Clancy action and Python comedy.
Only you could pull that off…
You think you have typo problems! I can’t even write my own name. Nes/Ned??
Yep! We want that book in the U.S.! Jessica Watson’s was published here (I bought about a mile from my place), and you are MUCH bigger than she is, so it ought to be a piece of cake getting distribution in Gringoland. Go for it, FP! I’ll see you on the book tour.
I’ve seen Jessica in the flesh, and I’d go so far as to say I’m FOUR times bigger than she is – I mean, I could almost swallow her whole!! 😉