Archive | September, 2009

Go Tuck (erize) Yourself!

Go Tuck (erize) Yourself!Win a walk on role in my next novel, one of ten free copies of my new book Marvellous Hairy or take home a mystery item from my desk.

All you have to do is either:

  1. join my Facebook fan page, or
  2. join my mailing list, the MonkeySphere.

I promise not to spam you relentlessly, and in exchange, I’m going to give away ten copies of Marvellous Hairy, a THING from the contents of my desk, and a chance to appear in my next novel.

That’s the Tuck(erize) part. Worried about what Tuckerization is all about? Simply put, Tuckerization is taking a person’s name, and making them a part of the story. I’m describing it as a walk-on roll, but you might like to think of it as a cameo. I’ll chat with you about what how you’d like your name to be presented, and what characteristics you’d like this person to have in my book. You can even decide which book you’d like to be in! (I’m working on two separate manuscripts right now.)

You can read more about Tuckerization at Wikipedia.

Join my Facebook page here.

Join my mailing list, the MonkeySphere, here.

Contest ends on October 16, 2009.

Here are the prizes again:

  • walk on role in my next book (1 prize)
  • mystery item from my desk (1 prize)
  • copy of Marvellous Hairy (10 prizes)*

*Note: if you’ve already purchased a copy of Marvellous Hairy, first of all thanks. Secondly, I can send you either a copy of my first novel, The Amadeus Net or if you’ve got that, we’ll figure something out.

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Alltop and humor-blogs.com are both tucked too.

Headline: The Annual Faculty-Student Mixer a Great Success

the annual UBS Faculty-STudent MixerIt was probably his imagination, but it seemed to the Don of Prancy Fairy College, Dennis Travesty, that admittance standards had been slipping of late. Just last term he’d had several complaints of werewolves, and then there was the vampire debacle at Convocation. (They were still cleaning up Poncy Hall.) No, he thought, it was just a bad run of luck. Could happen to anyone.

Maknor the Face Collector was just wondering what he was dancing with, and how it would taste later.

Alltop and humor-blogs.com both enjoy fletching. Photo via Retrozone.

The Legend of Pokadot Joe

The Legend of Pokadot JoeIn the years before the Great Striping, the common people had a champion. Whenever injustice reared its linear head, Pokadot Joe was there to thump it with his curly-cue cudgel of curvy vengeance.

Mounted on his mighty steed, Dosage Twelve, Pokadot Joe made his meandering way across the land (always avoid straight stretches of road), keeping the Euclidean Overlords in a parabola of fear.

Nobody could keep him in line. Until his tragic end at the brick wall.

Alltop and humor-blogs.com think that all-in-all, it’s just another brick… Photo via Strange Ink.

The infinite monkey theorem

Here’s a bit more podcasting goofiness. Over at Podioracket, a site that promotes books and authors who are podcasting their writing at Podiobooks.com, they are holding a promotional contest, in which authors are invited to write and record … promos.

Being the branding whore that I am, I decided to make my entry flow with the whole Marvellous Hairy monkey aesthetic. You can listen here, if the embedded player doesn’t work for some reason.

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Alltop and humor-blogs.com are living proof of this theorem