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Greetings from Effin' Birds

By Aaron Reynolds

A Tear-Out Postcard Book featuring 100 all-new and as rude as ever Effin' Birds!

Art | Illustrated

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Publication date: Summer 2021

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Ever since Effin’ Birds first appeared on social media, fans have been clamouring for a way to deliver these lavishly-illustrated profane messages in the real world. Today is the day that their prayers and DMs are answered: Greetings from Effin' Birds is a book of 100 tear-out postcards, featuring all new birds and all new jokes, plus 100 absolutely true ¹ Bird Facts that will help you spot these fine avian creatures in your everyday life.

the bewildered gander wants to talk about how fucked everything is
the fretful scaup wants to know how long this bullshit is going to take
the rational sheldrake is losing its fucking mind over here
…and 97 more!

THE EFFIN' BOOK:

100 new and exclusive postcards.
80 black and white and 20 full colour.
High quality paperback book with perforated, tear-out-and-send postcards
Full colour dustjacket
152 x 108mm
EXCLUSIVE pledge levels, including mugs, prints, and limited-edition art prints.

¹ All 100 bird facts are untrue.

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Aaron Reynolds

Aaron Reynolds is the Webby Award-honoured author of Effin’ Birds: A Field Guide To Identification, which for seven whole days in 2019 was the bestselling book by any Canadian author not named Margaret Atwood. Previously he taught software for Apple Inc, wrote about baseball, and was a Santa Claus photographer in the worst mall in Mississauga, a city where they cut down all the trees and named the streets after them. He currently lives in Toronto and is the proud owner of far too many Star Trek uniforms.
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31st October 2022 Come party with us!

Join us for an exclusive evening of profanity-laced, avian-flavoured hilarity when Aaron Reynolds visits London.

Amanda Abbington will be on hand to chair a Q&A about the origins, challenges, and bizarre accounting entanglements of Effin’ Birds. A Field Guide To Identification and Greetings From Effin' Birds will be available for purchase, along with a selection of duty-free Effin’ Birds merchandise…

11th January 2021 Cover reveal!

Happy New Year, everyone. The cover for Greetings From Effin’ Birds has been finalized. Here it is!

There's also a publication date, which I won't jinx by saying out loud. The site here says summer 2021 while I have been saying fall 2021 the whole time. I am told by students of the calendar that this date is, in fact, technically a summer date, but it is so late in the summer that I suspect…

1st October 2020 First Draft

The first draft of Greetings From Effin' Birds (minus the Request A Bird pages -- expect an email soon if you pledged at that level) is now in the hands of DeAndra, the same editor who shepherded the orignal Field Guide and had all those arguments with me about punctuation. With that, we can start looking at the schedule for the rest of the process.

There are a lot of parts involved, but the TLDR…
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Wendy Zebert asked:

If the spirit moves you, I'd love to eventually see "Fuck that Noise" as an EffinBird... ideally with a crow or raven or other noisy bird :) I'd definitely get the t-shirt and mug... Keep up the good work!!!

Aaron Reynolds replied:

Thanks, Wendy!

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