Tag: Preincarnate

You’ve read the book…

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.. Now listen to it read by the author!
While listening to Shaun talk about his new book at the Melbourne Writers Festival, it was discussed that he’d also read and voiced the audio book version of De’Ath Takes a Holiday.
Shaun admitted that Comte De’Arth’s voice is reminiscent of Bella Legosi, and that throughout the book he pretty much runs the gamut of his impression library – even some Chris Walken. Most of the characters sound like he imagined them as he wrote the book.

Shaun was also in the audio booth for another of his books, brushing off Preincarnate, a book from 15 years ago. Shaun did admit that parts of Preincarnate had not aged as well as he’d remembered, and a few “edits” were made along the way.

You can find these, and the audio book of his autobiography, Tripping Over Myself (also in audio book form) where audiobooks are sold (eg. Audible)

A Preincarnate(d) Event

Stuart 7 Comments

Alright, so the title is a bit of a stretch, but I just wanted to quickly post about Shaun’s book reading at The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne this evening.

Shaun was his usual seemingly effortlessly humorous self, describing the story, his inspiration – plus reading an excerpt. A couple of weird points – only a handful indicated they had actually read it (including me) and even less said they had seen his ABC TV series. Who are these people?!

He finished up with some Q&A then a meet-and-greet-and-autograph session. Anyway, here is the photographic evidence. 🙂

More good news – as Piper commented earlier, it was confirmed that Smithereens is going to be back in print! To be released at the end of January next year. Huzzah! (For some reason, I never purchased a copy and very much regret it.) Looks like a slightly different cover (with the less-flattering hair cut), and it states – “Now with added Smithereens!”.

Now to catch up on some TV and watch the last Offspring episode – didn’t that have a special guest…?

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Countdown to Preincarnate

Stuart 5 Comments

It’s not long until Preincarnate, Shaun’s first novel, hits the shelves. The Age have an article about it, but as Tony Martin pointed out on his Twitter – they don’t once state the title correctly. Good news is he is no shrinking violet – we can expect to see Shaun everywhere over the next little-while, including the season final of Offspring. If you are expecting another New Years show, afraid you’ll be disappointed this year.