Spoken Phrase: Episode 38: Fats, Fifty & Fu*ked! By Geoffrey McGeachin
James talks to photographer, author and yarn-spinner, Geoffrey McGeachin, about his re-release of his e-book.
Twenty years in the past, after many years of secret goals of being an creator, Melbourne-born photographer and photo-educator, Geoffrey McGeachinsat all the way down to see if he might truly write a e-book.
Fats, Fifty & Fu*ked! (most positively not an autobiography) was the consequence, profitable the 2003 Australian Common Fiction competitors, securing McGeachin an agent and a publishing deal, whereas additionally creating one thing of a advertising dilemma. . . “From an creator you’ve by no means heard of, with a reputation you’re undecided the best way to pronounce, comes the e-book you is perhaps too embarrassed to ask for.”
Fats, Fifty & Fu*ked! was printed by Penguin in August 2004 and instantly gained an enormous following, described by the Sunday Tasmanian as “one of the vital exhilarating debut novels in lots of moons … wildly imaginative, irreverent, bitingly humorous, superbly paced and populated by the form of characters we’d all like to know”. It continues to entertain and amuse Australian and worldwide readers.
After a red-hot response from reviewers and readers, McGeachin went on to jot down six extra books, three humorous journey thrillers that includes an Australian ‘James Bond’, Alby Murdoch, undercover agent and worldwide photographer, and three crime novels starring detective Charlie Berlin, an ex-bomber pilot and POW with a troubled previous. The Berlin novels gained Ned Kelly Awards for Finest Australian Crime Fiction in 2011 and 2013.
Fats, Fifty & Fu*ked! shifted my life in a brand new path,” McGeachin stated. “I at all times needed to jot down but it surely took a critical nudge from my spouse to get me rolling. The e-book took on a lifetime of its personal as soon as my characters hit the street.”
McGeachin stated he had resisted the temptation to replace Fats, Fifty & Fu*ked! for this re-creation.
“Whereas there could also be some dated expertise, there are surprisingly related opinions and attitudes from its wide-ranging solid of characters: banks are nonetheless bastards, media moguls have some fascinating moral points, the federal government is a contact dodgy, and librarians are disturbingly succesful folks in relation to disposing of a physique,” he stated.
“The themes are fairly common. And there’s a entire new era of individuals turning 50 – this title it’s the right birthday current.”
When the story begins Martin Carter is having a criminal day. His house life’s a distress, he’s been retrenched by the financial institution and everybody’s forgotten his birthday. However a million-dollar payroll, a pistol in a biscuit tin, and a split-second determination change all the pieces.
Hurtling north on a bike with the intriguing Religion, a librarian, Martin encounters a mysterious hit-man, a new-age bikie gang, a reclusive media mogul, and the booby-trapped mountain hide-out of an previous schoolmate. With Religion’s assist, he learns about love once more, together with some bitter truths about prompt espresso, brown suede sneakers, and the legendary Nice Aussie Truck-stop Breakfast.
McGeachin stated that Fats, Fifty & Fu*ked! is actually a love story but it surely’s additionally an on-the-run journey, taking its characters on a wild journey with an undercurrent of impending hazard.
Fats, Fifty & Fu*ked! can also be about renewal and reinvention, new beginnings and taking probabilities. And when the world goes to hell in a hand basket it’s an excellent time to flee into, as one reader known as it, ‘an actual laugh-out-loud Aussie gem of a e-book’,” he stated.
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The audio e-book continues to amuse truckies, bikies and anybody with a protracted winding street in entrance of them.
Twenty years later Clan Destine Press believes folks will march into bookshops across the nation and demand a replica of Fats, Fifty & Fu*ked!
After an thrilling profession as a world-travelling photographer and photo-educator, Geoffrey settled in Sydney the place he wrote his first novel, Fats, Fifty and Fu*ked!, in 2003. This was adopted by three tongue-in-check spy novels that includes photographer/undercover agent Alby Murdoch: D-E-D Useless, Delicate New Age Spyand Useless & Kicking.
In 2010 he wrote the primary of the Charlie Berlin sequence, The Diggers Relaxation Lodge; adopted by Blackwattle Creek and St Kilda Blues. The sequence, set in 1947, 1957 and 1967, earned him two prestigious Ned Kelly Awards for Finest Australian Crime Fiction.
Geoffrey now lives on the Central Coast of NSW together with his spouse, Wilma.
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