Books by The Netwits
How Much is that Scorpion in the Window?
Equilibrium Books has put together a print on demand collection of some of John Martin's columns, satire, spoof news and completely made-up stuff. They range from his twisted accounts from the pet shop, the kitchen and pieces lampooning the workplace, sport and politics.
When John was a boy in the 1960s, pet shops provided simple pets for simple needs in simple times.
But times have changed.
"I was in the pet shop the other day and was truly startled with what they had to sell," Martin writes in this collection of stories both small and tall.
Find out more, including the cost (which fluctuates with exchange rates) by sending an e-mail to god@thisreallyisheaven.com
Adventure by Flip-Flops under the Southern Cross
This one is a free e-book that you can download for nothing at Independent Book
It's another collection of short funny fiction and skewed factual stories, this time headline by adventure travel operator Major Jeremy Billycock-Smythe who bumbles his way though many misadventures.
He is joined by convicted arsonist Jerome O'Fury and John Martin and his family, friends and foes.
Apples
This is John Martin's first novel. It's a satire and he can't work out how anyone not from the Australian island state of Tasmania can understand much of its in-humour. But they do. In fact, some Americans have raved about it.
Apples is a story (approx. 90,000 words) centred on Windy Mountain, a fictional town in Northern Tasmania, which is home to a collection of eccentric characters - from a deflocked priest to a disgraced town drunk, from a megalomaniac mayor to a bunch of greenies with a leadership problem, from a hapless young man caught up in Tasmania's obscure indecency laws to a bikie who has lost his gang, from a brothel-keeper who doubles as the town's football coach to a Thylacine hunter who sends bushrangers' mementos to the United States to be sold on the lucrative souvenir market. Windy Mountain might also be the home of the officially extinct but sometimes-reported Tasmanian Tiger.
There are still a few copies left in John's garage. $US11 plus postage international or $A15.95 including postage for Australians. Order it from http://www.dunno.com.au/apples.html
Misadventures of Mons and Disasters of Dads
John Martin can't take much of the credit for this one at all. He is just one of lots of people who have contributed stories from this compilation. His contribution is called Happy to be a Nappy Chappy, which tells of the trauma of being peed upon while changing a diaper.
Some of the proceeds from the book will go to Susan G. Komen Foundation (for breast cancer research.).
You can buy it at http://www.misadventuresofmoms.com/
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