https://jackheath.novlr.site/blog Blog en-us https://jackheath.novlr.site/blog/kimberley Pre-newsletter news: Do you live near Collingwood and enjoy food, drink and Cosy Crime? If so, I'm doing an event you may enjoy.) Hello from the skies above Western Australia! I'm on my way back to Canberra (via Perth and Melbourne) after the Kimberley Writers Festival. Getting there was a bit of an adventure... 6 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://jackheath.novlr.site/blog/wolf-who-cried-boy I was at a cafe in Westfield Belconnen, with only an hour left before my doctor's appointment, and I was determined to finish my 200 Minutes of Survival story in that time... 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://jackheath.novlr.site/blog/i-know This is theoretically a monthly newsletter, and I emailed you only a few days ago. But I woke up in the middle of the night with a get-rich-quick scheme in my head, and I thought you wouldn't want to miss out. I'm afraid it only works in Australia, though. Sorry, pals elsewhere! I'll make you rich some other way. Here's what you do... 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://jackheath.novlr.site/blog/stranger I was having lunch with my parents and two of their friends at a cafe, when a stranger approached the table. "Excuse me," she said. "Are you Jack Heath?" "Yes?" I replied warily... 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://jackheath.novlr.site/blog/little-tech The short version: I'm moving the newsletter to Ecosend. The long version starts in 1995, when eight-year-old Jack was happily chatting with his friend Eliza. "I am bored," Jack would say. "Why are you bored?" Eliza would ask. "There's nothing to do," Jack would say. "Why is there nothing to do?" Eliza would ask. Jack would slowly type out his answer. He had to type, because Eliza was a chatbot who lived on his parents' computer... 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://jackheath.novlr.site/blog/receipt 🛳️ Choppy Water is available to preorder! But the clock is ticking. Once the book is published, you can't preorder it anymore. You'll have to just buy it, like a chump. "Did you preorder Jack Heath's new action-packed thriller, like a true fan?" your closest friend will ask you. "I ordered it," you'll mumble. "I'm sorry, I didn't quite hear you," your friend will press. "Did you say you preordered it, or ordered it?" "Ordered it," you'll shamefacedly confess, then wither under their disgusted stare. 7 Jul 2026 15:00:00 GMT https://jackheath.novlr.site/blog/tame In the current controversy (such a chicken-sh*t term, but anyway) about Grace Tame, there's something I don't think anyone is saying out loud. 3 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT https://jackheath.novlr.site/blog/turtles Happy new year! I hope you all got a break, and that you got to spend it with family and friends. I confess that I'm kind of a Grinch around Christmas-time. In my teens and early twenties I found the season very stressful, because I couldn't afford gifts for everyone I felt I owed a gift to, and I didn't have the skills to hand-make a gift. I lived in fear that someone would give me a gift, and I wouldn't have anything to offer in return. In my late twenties and early thirties I had a job in retail, so I had slightly more money (and a staff discount!) but the season was stressful for a different reason... 9 Jan 2025 15:00:00 GMT