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Movie Review: Lucy

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I can honestly say it’s even better than The Beast of Yucca Flats.

[Warning: spoilers for people who haven’t seen the trailers.] Through the magic of a Meetup group and the folks at SciFiCommons.com, I had the chance to take a break from all the craziness of the Zeus Is Dead launch and see an advance screening of Luc Besson’s new sci-fi flick Lucy. I’m still trying to figure out just how to talk about this film, to which I was really looking forward, based on the trailers. I suppose I’ll start with the short version:

“Wow, really?“

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Zeus Is Dead: Character Quotes for the New Release

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My epic comedic fantasy novel Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure released yesterday, and I’m still in the midst of all the craziness. (Seriously, I haven’t gotten much sleep yet.) Today I wanted to share some funny quote graphics from the book. These have been trickling out on Twitter and Facebook, but today I get to finally show you ALL of them in this nifty slideshow!

I’m really excited about this book! Fellow authors who received advanced copies have compared it to the work of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, and the early Amazon reviews so far are fantastic!

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Just some goofy/geeky stuff…

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So I’ve got a full, full plate today getting ready for the big launch of Zeus Is Dead tomorrow, but I wanted to take a break from that and put up a few things that are completely unrelated. So here’s some stuff that, in my current mental state, I found amusing…

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Truer words were never spoken.
…I think.

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3rd Zeus Is Dead Feature!

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The third Zeus Is Dead behind-the-book featurette is now up on YouTube: an excerpt from Chapter Two, read by yours truly. I suppose, strictly speaking, this one isn’t BEHIND the book so much as it is THE BOOK, but the video has me reading from the book while holding it, so technically I’m behind the book, so… Yeah, close enough.

This is the third of four featurettes that will be publicly released. One more will be out on launch day (July 21st). There are, however, five more, but you’ll only be able to see those if you sign up for my newsletter! So go ahead, sign up, why not?

Missed the first two videos?
See them here (plot overview) and here (Ares character profile)!

And now, me in my first ever public reading! (This is the first video we did, so you can probably tell I hadn’t really loosened up yet. I’m like Tracy – I prefer to be behind the scenes…)

Thanks once again to David Taylor and Amy Louise Herndon at SciFiCommons for doing the filming and editing.

Click here for more info on Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure , coming July 21st!

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2nd Zeus Is Dead feature: Ares!

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The second behind-the-book featurette for Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure is now up on YouTube. This time it’s a quick profile of one of the book’s characters: Ares, god of war, chaos, and general jackassery.

The video is embedded below, but first I want to share one of the character quote graphics that my manager at Booktrope (my publisher) has created. There will be more to come. Please feel free to post and tweet the graphic wherever you like!

More character quotes to come soon...

More character quotes to come soon…

And now, the video. Be sure to subscribe to get advanced notice when the next one comes out, or subscribe to my YouTube channel…

Missed the first featurette? Check it out here…

Less than a week before the release!!!