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Trailer for Third Transmission released!
Jack's back from Brisbane! And he's brought you a present. Hip hip hooray! We could rant and rave about it for a little while, (as we like to do), but it's fairly self-explanatory. Enjoy:
Want a free copy of Third Transmission - before it comes out? Embed the trailer somewhere public - your website, your social networking profile, your blog - and then email the URL to trailercomp at jackheath dot com dot au. You could win a signed copy, posted to you a week before the release date. You can only enter once per URL. So the more places you embed the video, the more URLs you can send in, and the better your chances of winning. Let the mayhem commence! -- 3/6/09 Who's your inner superhero/terrorist?In a jackheath.com.au first, we've just put the finishing touches on a personality quiz.1 Which of Jack's Characters Are You? is a test more entertaining than Myers Briggs, and more accurate than How Long Would You Survive In A Zombie Apocalypse? which recently offended Jack by telling him he'd only last 3 days. Seven questions. Eleven possible results. Seventy-seven possible combinations. Why are you still here? Go to the books section of the site and check it out now!
-- 22/5/09 New video up: The Rubik's Cube Trick!Jack and Tom Heath recently finished shooting the third in their series of comedy/magic videos. Now that the editing is finished, (courtesy of Ryan Kerlin) it's time to share it with the people! If you're a person, you can see the video in the downloads section of the site. If you're not a person, well then, ah . . . welcome to my website, aliens/animals who've learned to read! If you find something you like here, please spare our lives during the inevitable invasion/uprising. What's that? Too lazy to click the link, and then click play? Only want to have to click once to see the video? Fine - here it is. Don't tell your mother.
If you liked it, rate it! If you didn't like it, you might find rating it less satisfying than sending hate mail to Jack here. We encourage you to show your friends (why not embed the video on your site/profile?)1
-- 7/5/09 A launch, two features, a video . . . it's all happening.Tomorrow night (Tuesday the 14th) at 6pm at the ANU School of Art cafe, Jack will be launching A Roundabout Town - a book of short stories set in Canberra by a gifted bunch of young authors. Jack has described the book as "delightfully misrepresentative - it makes Canberra sound like a zoo of fascinating people and places, instead of a small, pleasantly dull city where everyone works for the government. There is real talent and imagination at work here." So come along, join Jack and the authors in their celebrations, and grab yourself a copy of A Roundabout Town. In local (even more so) news, there are two new features here on jackheath.com.au - the top half of the chat page, where you can converse with a simulated version of Jack, and the bottom half of the chat page, where you can find out what real-life Jack is doing every minute of every hour of every day. Or, however often he bothers to update his Twitter profile. We'll see how that works out. If you have a Twitter account of your own, you can follow him here. And if that's not enough, there's something else to look forward to - Jack and Tom Heath have just finished shooting another comedy/magic video. So once editing and scoring is complete, you'll be able to watch it in the videos section. Stay tuned! -- 13/04/09 New page - "recommended"!Only five days ago we were bragging about all the cool stuff that was "coming soon" on the site. And now what have we gone and done? We've uploaded something that wasn't on the list! There is now a page in the books section entitled "recommended" - a selection of Jack's all-time favourite books of all time. Ever. With links to the websites of the authors who wrote them, and Jack's explanation of how they were chosen. So those of you who've consumed The Lab, devoured Remote Control, wolfed down Money Run and can't believe that Third Transmission won't be out until August - there's no reason to go on a book-free diet. Choose something from the list and get blown away. But be careful; you too might end up as a writer.
-- 25/03/09 New music up!Well, okay. Not entirely new. We would have said "previously unavailable in a convenient format", but that wouldn't have made as snappy a headline. The soundtrack to Jack's magic video, the one where he twists his arm 450 degrees around, is now up on the music page in the downloads section of the site. For those of you who haven't heard Jack's music before, he writes it, records it, and mixes it, as well as playing all the instruments himself. In fact, for those of you who simply haven't been to jackheath.com.au before, here's a current summary of what we have here: - Three episodes of the popular online documentary series, The Jack Heath Chronicles And here are some of the things that are coming soon: - A creepy chat program that pretends to be Jack If you can name another author with a website with this much random crap on it, email the URL to randomcrapcomp at jackheath dot com dot au. You'll win a secret link to download new music before anyone else has a chance to! -- 20/03/09 Jack becomes a teacher!Starting from the evening of Tuesday the 5th of May, Jack will be teaching a creative writing course at the Canberra Institute of Technology - Writing for the Young Readers. The five or six lesson course will cover getting to know your audience, finding inspiration and making the most of it, creating a strong style and voice, constructing a plot one twist at a time, crafting characters all readers will adore, choosing the setting that serves the story, editing and proofreading, and promoting your work. The best bit? It's only $170! So cheap that even Jack could afford to do it, if he weren't so busy teaching the darn thing. To learn more or to enrol, go to the CIT Solutions website. -- 18/03/09 "Where was I?" Jack's blog has arrived!Good news - you no longer have to visit MySpace to read Jack's increasingly popular blog. Due to widespread demand, it is now hosted on this website. (The link is up above. No - a little further to the right. No, your right. Yep, that's it.) We are working on an indexing system and an RSS feed, but frankly, both those things sound like a lot of work. So it could take a while. More news about Jack's upcoming book, Third Transmission, coming soon! -- 16/03/09 The Jack Heath Chronicles, coming soon!
We'd love to tell you more - but we've been instructed to let Jack do it. So click the chronicles tab up above, and he will!1 1 Caution: may contain traces of fluffed lines. -- 11/02/09 Agent Six wallpapers, finally up!
There's two hot pics of Six, with two of his most delightfully witty quotes. (But if you've read the books, you'll be aware that he's not known for his sense of humor.) Enjoy! -- 20/01/09 Dog tags and special offers!
And as if that weren't enough, all autographed books are temporarily 15% off! So what are you doing reading this? Get over to the shop. Want to see them before you buy? Fair enough - so would we. We have seen them, of course, but there's not much point us buying them, as we already own them. A paradox like that could destroy the universe. Anyway, pictures of the tags will be up soon - probably this Wednesday. -- 08/12/08 Ashley and Benjamin are back!
And guess what? As of today, part one of Jack's story, Freak Show, is already up! So be sure to check the Summer Reading Club site every Wednesday to get the next chapter - and leave comments to tell Jack what you think so far as the story approaches the thrilling conclusion! -- 28/11/08 Jack wins ACT Young Australian of the Year 2009!
In his acceptance speech, as well as acknowledging his family, his girlfriend and the other nominees, Jack thanked "all the teaching librarians, booksellers and parents out there who are putting books in the hands of young people and encouraging them to think for themselves - because that's what makes this such a great country to live in." Jack now goes on to the national finals, where he'll get to meet the Prime Minister and the Governor General, as well as other finalists including charity founder Leigh Mathews and swimming champion Matthew Cowdrey. -- 22/11/08 The Lab - in US bookstores now!
American readers, welcome to the site! Australian readers, please help make Agent Six successful abroad. Write reviews for websites, post Jack's videos on your blog or FaceSpace, and most of all - tell your friends. And stay tuned to jackheath.com.au, because there's more stuff in the shop and more videos in the downloads section coming soon! -- 04/11/08 Shop complete!You may have noticed that there are now five tabs up above! The shop has been promoted to a main component of the site. And you can now buy signed copies of all three of Jack's books, not just Money Run. Happy shopping! -- 05/10/08 Signed stock in the new shop!Jack was getting way more autograph requests than he could handle, and he was sick of making only $1.50 for every book sold. So he's decided to skin two cats with one stone and turn this website into a shop!
And copies of Jack's new book, when it's finished. But we're not supposed to talk about that yet. Shhh. -- 25/09/08 |
Jack and his books are the subject of a new documentary from Broken Bush Films. The documentary will be released online for free over the next couple of months, in a number of locations. (Including here.)
As requested, there are now wallpapers available for download in the section of this site we use for downloadable things. I think we call it "
They've finally arrived! You can now buy exact replicas of the dog tags Agent Six wears in The Lab and Remote Control from the shop. And as if that weren't enough, you can get a double pack - the dog tags and Remote Control for only $37 (save $8)!
Jack has been working in secret on a short new adventure for Ashley Arthur and Benjamin Whitely, the bold teen heroes of 
Jack has just been honoured with the Australian Capital Territory's most prestigious award for young people - ACT Young Australian of the Year. He was presented the trophy and certificate by the Chief Minister of the ACT, John Stanhope, at the National Museum in Canberra.
Yes, the rumours are true - as you'd expect, when Jack's the one spreading them. Agent Six of Hearts' first adventure, The Lab, is now available in America, courtesy of Scholastic.
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