Written Off — book cover
A memoir · Colin Niemann

WRITTEN OFF

They wrote him off before he could read.
He spent fifty years proving them wrong.
ebook $19.99 $9.99 · ebook + audiobook $19.99 · print coming
New releases · Fresh off the press

New from Colin James (CJ)

The Big Book of Aussie Tucker — 500 Classic & Modern Recipes, by Colin James (CJ)

The Big Book of Aussie Tucker

From Brekkie to the Barbie—and Everything Between. 500 Classic & Modern Recipes. The whole Australian table in one book — the meat pie and the smashed avo, the Sunday roast and the weeknight chops, the full barbie, Christmas in the heat, the biscuit tin, the slice tray and pudding to finish.

The classics done properly. The new stuff done right.

$19.99 ebook

She'll Be Right, Chef! — 500 Easy Aussie Recipes for People Who Reckon They Can't Cook, by Colin James (CJ)

She'll Be Right, Chef!

500 Easy Aussie Recipes for People Who Reckon They Can't Cook. Starts with how to boil an egg, ends with a celebration ice cream cake — big brekkies, homemade takeaway, one-pot wonders, slow-cooker and air-fryer favourites, barbecue tucker and the Aussie baking classics, all in plain language with real supermarket ingredients.

No chef talk. No fancy gear. No judgement.

$19.99 ebook

She'll Be Right, Mate! — 10,000 Jokes, The Ultimate Collection of Aussie Humour, by Colin James (CJ)

She'll Be Right, Mate!

10,000 Jokes — The Ultimate Collection of Aussie Humour. Fifty chapters, two hundred jokes each — the pub, the smoko shed, the servo, the footy, the barbie and the bloke who won't stop talking about his boat. Every joke written fresh for this book, all clean, all built to be told out loud.

The biggest collection of Aussie humour ever stuffed between two covers.

$14.99 ebook

The Big Book of Aussie Laughs — 2,000 Jokes From Down Under, by Colin James (CJ)

The Big Book of Aussie Laughs

2,000 Jokes From Down Under. Twenty chapters, a hundred jokes each — dad jokes, tradies and tools, work and the boss, family, school, sport, pubs and farming life. Every joke lands in ten seconds flat: read it in the car with the kids, hand it to your nan, take it to work.

You will groan. That's not a bug — in this house we count it.

$9.99 ebook

Browse all books →   More books coming soon.

📚 The Book Stack deal: buy 2 books, 20% off · 3 books 30% · 4 books 40% · 5 books HALF PRICE + 5 FREE — and it keeps scaling. Build your stack →

The story behind Written Off

A magistrate looked at a six-year-old, called him a compulsive liar, wrote it down, and went to lunch. Between that word and the last page lies one extraordinary Australian life — twenty-two front doors, a wrong form that sent a seventeen-year-old into an adult prison, seventy courtrooms — told by a man who taught himself the law from the wrong end of it and, on the last page, named himself. Every copy also unlocks the Held-Back Chapters. The novel and a print edition are coming soon.

Wake Up Now Bookshop

More than one story

Written Off started it — but Wake Up Now is a home for real, independent Australian voices. Browse other authors' books, or publish your own and sell it direct to readers here.

📚 For readers

Discover memoirs, novels and true stories from independent authors — ebooks and audiobooks you can read the moment you buy.

✍️ For authors

Publish your book and sell it direct — ebook and audiobook. No monthly fee, no setup cost — you keep 80% of every sale and we take just 20% per sale. You set the price; you get paid.

📦 Browse our Creator Packs →

About the author

Colin Niemann was a ward of the State from the age of six. He publishes under the name he was born with and took back for himself — the only name in his life he ever got to choose.