Mark A. Rayner is a Canadian author of satire, humor, and speculative fiction. This site features news about his books & other writing, along with links to reviews, events, and Mark's thoughts on topics of interest to naughty primates everywhere.
Rule number one of monkey fight club is you turn on the humans!
A news story in the California Chronicle reports:
MONKEYS trained in the art of taekwondo turned on their handler – kicking his head in.
LoWung, 42, taught the martial art to primates so they could entertain crowds at a shopping centre in Nshi, China.
But shoppers found it even more entertaining when one sharp monkey floored him with a kick to the head.
Apparently the high-octane silliness of Marvellous Hairy ruined a perfectly good pun Calvin Chayce had all set up for the book. Of which, I’m glad. He says:
… Rayner proves to be a masterful story weaver with a gifted imagination, and a remarkable wit. If that’s not enough, a deep social conscience lies beneath it all. Those qualities combined provide for an exciting, hilarious and ultimately fulfilling reading experience. Just don’t forget to fasten your seatbelt.
You can read the full review on Goodreads here.
The next hilarious stop along the Virtual Tour for Marvellous Hairy is at Collecting Tokens today.
Collecting Tokens is a marvellous assemblage of anecdotes, observations and well, tokens, hosted by Alejna, a 12-year-old squid, obsessed with linguistics and pants. (In fact, I’d say her obsession with the word pants rivals my obsession with things simian.)
Here’s a clip for reason #6:
My mother-in-law would be farily scandalized by something that induced me to compose a sentence including both the words “sex” and “monkeys.”
I was quite happy to be invited for the second edition of Bookgasm’s WTF Q&A, which asked me such questions as:
You can find all the questions (and my equally absurd answers) at the Bookgasm site.
The virtual tour continues this week at Collecting Tokens.
The virtual tour continues with a stop on the other side of the pond at Neonbubble, conducted by Mark (the fake one, or actually the real one on his site).
While it can be confusing have one Mark interviewing another Mark (you might even say it could leave a mark, psychologically speaking), Mark does an admirable job of keeping us oriented (I almost said “on the mark”.) He also is quite interested in catering to his audience, which is composed largely of perverts, so the interview is laced with terms such as writing, publishing, and close-harmony singing. Disgusting!
If you haven’t had the pleasure of Neonbubble, you should definitely add it to your blogroll, or rss feed, or if you’re a pervert, your bookmarks.
The full interview is here. Feel free to drop by and join in the comments!
Copies of Marvellous Hairy are available at the publisher's website direct or on Amazon.com
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