So You Got Fd Up - The Book

06/01/2026

Big day. Big energy.

Audiobook recording officially underway
Author talk locked in - I met the rooster from the poster!
Same venue. Same story. New formats.

From page → mic → stage.

This one’s been a while coming.

Turns out reading your own story out loud is… an experience. Sorry to those in the first chapter. I probably cursed your name somewhere in the million takes.

30/12/2025

Author talk! Port Macquarie Library. 21 Feb. 1.30-2.30pm

A story about getting smashed up, putting yourself back together, and realising it’s not the same shape ever again.

Booking link’s up if you want in. Come for the show, stay 'cause it's free.

40 spots available.

Please join us for a chat with local author Pete Harris and Leanne at our Port Macquarie Library on Saturday 21st February at 1.30pm.

13/12/2025

07/12/2025

248%!
Ali Flynn from her Challenges That Change Us podcast messaged me yesterday — turns out our first episode went... ok.

It averaged 248% more listens than her usual. Who'd have thought! I suspect it's cheers to my dear mum for punishing the refresh button like a maniac.

When a conversation subtly shifts into a therapy session with a microphone, magic can happen.

Most of you basically heard me close the chapter on some very ordinary stuff, and the moment we wrapped the second episode I felt a weight lift that hasn’t returned.

Thanks to everyone who listened, reached out, and made that 248% feel like 248% support. In the words of the great Kostya Tszyu - "I love ya's all. Every one of singles yous"

Here's the link to the first episode if you're not sure what I'm on about. We followed it up with Ep 152.
https://pod.fo/e/2a7942

10/11/2025

Had a great chat with ABC’s Cam Marshall this week about 'So You Got F*cked Up' — we talked recovery, mindset, and mental health.

It went out across the Mid North and Coffs Coast, but you can catch here, (skip to 1hr 13min 45 sec into the episode OR 2hr 11min countdown) https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/midnorthcoast-breakfast/breakfast/105982004

Big thanks to Cam and the ABC Mid North Coast team for the invite and the genuine conversation.

09/11/2025

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06/11/2025

Books, beers, bad language, better stories and a proper catch up.

Armidale Launch — it’s on!

So You Got F*cked Up book launch tomorrow at The Welders Dog Bar (The OG Welders)

UPDATE: There will be Oktoberfest charcuterie style platters available for purchase, and BYO food is also okie doakes.

I dropped in to see Michelle at the Reader's Companion, to say hi and thanks.

She showed me the book looking all resplendent on the shelf. Grab a copy from her, or just pick one up at the launch — I’ll have a stack there.

Midday. Saturday. 8 Nov.

15/10/2025

Book’s done. Time for a beer.
Armidale catch-up at The Welders Dog — relaxed hang, short reading, good people.
Midday to 2pm. See you there.

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29/09/2025

Been a bit quiet here, but the book hasn’t been. A few fun things on the horizon:

*So You Got F*cked Up is now sitting on the shelves at Bookface Port Macquarie (what a ripper bookshop AND coffee shop!)

*Next week I’ll be on ABC Mid North Coast with Cam Marshall having a yarn about the book, recovery, and whatever else slips out.

*Speaking at the Port Macquarie Private Hospital leaders retreat — taking it back to where a lot of this story unfolded. That's poetic, a real chance to pay back and give some insight from the other side of the bedrail.

*Kicking off the new year with a local author event at Port Macquarie Library. Hope the demographic is sympathetic!

And early Term 4, we’re heading to Armidale for a launch/celebration. Special guest and MC in the pipeline for that one. Think boutique brewery, beer and and Armidale in October or November. That's the best combination since Iceman robbed Maverick of Goose. I'm not angry about that, just disappointed.

Meanwhile the book itself has been doing more travel than me: it’s turned up in remote Western Australia, South Australia, Kingscliff, even Japan. (If you’ve got a copy out in the wild, send me a snap — I love seeing where it ends up.)

It’s fully choice watching this thing roll along. Thanks for sticking with it — more details on each soon.
Pete.