Scotty Boxa.
Australian author. Writes from the Sunshine Coast.
Five short books. One Emotional Support Duck.
Self-help from the middle.
Scotty Boxa is the Australian author behind the Waddle Forward Series. Five short self-help books for humans barely holding it together. He was named the 2025 Emotional Education Author of the Year. (Self-awarded, deeply earned, taken seriously by us and nobody else.)
He writes from the Sunshine Coast. He also writes recipes, travel essays, and pub yarns under the same name at scottyboxa.com.
The Waddle Forward books exist because every self-help book on the shelf seemed to be written by someone who claimed to have figured it out. These ones are written from the middle of the journey, not the finish line.
Why a duck? The original titles were Hold My Fucks, What The Fuck Am I Doing With My Life?, and Fuck Yeah. You cannot put the word FUCK on a paperback cover and expect it to sit on a shelf at Big W. So FUCK became DUCK. One letter. The whole title softened, the whole joke kept. Then the duck stuck, became a character, and turned into the Emotional Support Duck on every cover. The books still carry the original under-the-surface energy even when the titles are family-friendly.
Five books. One duck. Waddle forward.
All five Waddle Forward books.
When you are carrying everyone else’s emergencies.
When you cannot remember which way is up.
When the worst part is past and the long part starts.
When you want Books 1, 2 and 3 in one volume.
When you are the one everybody else calls.
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