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Go Tuck (erize) Yourself!

By on September 29, 2009 in But is it art?, Monkeys!, Skwibby fiction

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.

Join my Facebook page here. Join my mailing list, the MonkeySphere, here.

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The Marvellous Hairy Podcasts

By on September 3, 2009 in But is it art?, Skwibby fiction

The Marvellous Hairy PodcastsAs readers of The Skwib, you may be aware that I am also a novelist releasing his second work, Marvellous Hairy – a novel in five fractals. It’s available direct from the publisher now, and in stores in October.

But I’m also podcasting this bad boy, and they are well underway. I’ll be listing them all here, at iTunes, at Podiobooks.com (released soon) or you could check out the episodes on my writer’s blog:

Part One, The Cult of the Claw

Episode One (chapters one and two)
Episode Two (chapters three to five)
Episode Three (chapters six to eight)

Part Two – The Human Ideal

Episode Four (chapters one to thee)
Episode Five (chapters four and five)

Buy Marvellous Hairy directly from the publisher. Released in stores this October!

Alltop and humor-blogs.com are also easy listening humor monkeys.

The Marvellous Hairy Podcasts

By on August 17, 2009 in But is it art?, Monkeys!, Skwibby fiction

The Marvellous Hairy PodcastsAs readers of The Skwib, you may be aware that I am also a novelist releasing his second work, Marvellous Hairy – a novel in five fractals. It’s available online from the publisher now, and in stores in the Fall.

But I’m also podcasting this bad boy, and they are well underway. I’ll be listing them all here, at iTunes, or you could check out the episodes on my writer’s blog:

Part One, The Cult of the Claw

Episode One (chapters one and two)
Episode Two (chapters three to five)
Episode Three (chapters six to eight)

Alltop and humor-blogs.com are also easy listening humor monkeys.

Listen to my new novel, Marvellous Hairy

By on August 12, 2009 in Monkeys!, Parody & Satire, Skwibby fiction, Uncategorized

Marvellous HairyIf you’d like to join me for the podcast of my second novel, you can find the listing of them as they’re released at the Marvellous Hairy website. While you’re there, sign up for my newsletter to catch all the news as it happens.

The first episode (which is about twenty minutes long and covers the first two chapters) can be found at my other blog, on my author’s site. I’ve added the second episode now too. You can also subscribe at iTunes, and soon at Podiobooks.com.

Or you could just go get your own copy to read yourself. Just sayin’.

Alltop and humor-blogs.com are also humor monkeys.

Windows file copy dialog author visits some friends & Sunday O-Rama

By on July 26, 2009 in But is it art?, Parody & Satire, Skwibby fiction

Another classic xkcd: The author of the Windows file copy dialog visits some friends:

Windows file catalogue guy

Sunday O-Rama

While I’m procrastinating, perhaps a few announcements are in order.

MARVELLOUS HAIRY is coming! That’s right, my second novel is on the way this fall, courtesy of Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink, a publisher for “The Enigmatic Polygeneration”. If you’d like to sign up for my newsletter, or facebook page, you can get the details as they’re available, though the book should have a pretty good distribution, and all the usual online stores for sure.

For now, check out the cover:

MARVELLOUS HAIRY - a novel in 5 fractals

Review copies for influential readers are available. Just contact me.

Diesel, the zany mind behind Matress Police, and humor-blogs.com, is also a novelist. Go congratulate him for finishing his book, Mercury Falls, or better yet, sign up for his “interest list”. When it hits 500, he’s going to publish that puppy.

Another prolific friend, Ahmed Khan, is working putting together two anthologies right now, and one of my short stories, “Hounding Manny” has made the cut. You can check out the whole TOC for Fun Times in Strange Lands here. It’s a reprint of a story originally published by Oceans of the Mind, and it’s on the short fiction section of my site here: “Hounding Manny”.

Critical Monkey ContestIf you are a little more ambitious in your reading habits, you may want to check out a contest being run by Corey Redekop, the author of delightfully demented Shelf Monkey. He has thrown down the gauntlet, and begun the Critical Monkey Contest. Here’s what Corey has to say about it:

I, as I assume most people who read this blog are, am somewhat of a book snob. I don’t pretend to read only the ‘classics’ of the Western canon, but there’s a lot of crap out there I go out of my way to avoid. See? Right there, snobbery. Bad monkey! Bad!

So I have decided to launch Critical Monkey, a little contest designed to make us confront our fears, and read those we otherwise actively ignore. These do not have to be authors who are typically derided in literary publications; choices can be books you simply have never wanted to read for whatever reason. Never read a Charles Dickens, but always felt bad? Now’s your chance to try him on for size. Have you avoided Margaret Laurence because a lousy teacher force-fed you The Stone Angel and squeezed everything good out of it (guilty!)? Time to make her acquaintance. Anything you like. Even Harlequin romance novels. I double-dog dare you to try.

You can read the rest of the rules, entry details and promise of prizes here. Essentially, you need to read seven books you wouldn’t normally read, and blog a review about them. The masochist has already inflicted Twilight upon himself. I’ve yet to decide what I will read first.

Alltop and humor-blogs.com are much more reliable.