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It’s ALIIIVE! Er, wait, no.
It’s UNDEAAADD!
It’s here! My latest comedic fantasy, Zeus Is Undead: This One Has Zombies is published and available today! It’s taken me far longer than I would have liked to get this book out there, but I’m pleased it’s finally ready for you. It’s definitely something I can be proud of.
But just in case any of you are new here, perhaps I ought to answer the question of just what, exactly, is Zeus Is Undead?
Isn’t it great?! Click to embiggen!
Thanks to designer Greg Simanson for his hard work in making the cover for the sequel look just as great as the original! Yes, expect to see a razorwing or two in the book. Yes, those are fuzzy handcuffs. As for why the cuffs, the bread, the beer, and the glowing trapezohedronal-whatzit are there at all, well, you’ll just have to read the book to find out.
The official release date is still squirming around in an obstinate refusal to be pinned down, but I’ll have an actual date for you soon, I promise! Watch this space for updates!
There hasn’t been much activity here on the blog lately. It’s taken a back seat to finishing the Zeus Is Dead sequel so I can get that sucker out to you all just as soon as possible. (It’s my most successful book! It’s been recently published in audio book format! It’s been optioned for possible movie/TV adaptation! Why haven’t I gotten a sequel out yet?!)
I’m pleased to say now that I sent the manuscript to my editor a few days ago. I now await its return, all marked up and noted so that I can finish the polishing stage and head on toward release. A designer is working on the cover as I type this. So it’s about time to announce the official title, isn’t it? Sure, you already know the “Zeus Is Undead” part, but what about the rest? Well, hold onto your butts, because here it comes, without further ado, yammering, or blathering on my part. The Zeus Is Dead sequel shall be called…
Isn’t that a great title?
The cover reveal is coming soon! Keep watching the blog, follow me on Twitter and Facebook, or subscribe to see it first!
Almost since the day the book came out, people have asked me “Can I get it in audibook?” I always had to say “No,” or “Not yet, but I’m looking into it,” or “How did you get in my pantry?” Today, thanks to publisher Tantor Media (an imprint of RBMedia, currently the largest independent publisher of audiobooks) I can finally say, “YES!” (And “Get out of my pantry!”)
The Zeus Is Dead audiobook is read by Travis Baldree. A veteran audiobook narrator, not only has Baldree narrated audiobooks by authors such as Kevin J. Anderson and Matt Coyle, but he’s also a winner of the Audiofile Earphones Award! Audiofile awards this to “truly exceptional titles that excel in narrative voice and style, characterizations, suitability to audio, and enhancement of the text.” (He also founded video game companies Runic Games and Double Damage, and made Torchlight and Rebel Galaxy, so he’s got geek-cred up the wazoo.)
Right now you can grab the audiobook on Amazon Audible, iTunes, Audiobooks.com, Kobo, and on Tantor’s website. Audio samples are available on each site. Already got the ebook through Kindle? Audible gives you a discount! Check it out! 😀
The razorwing isn’t white! OOOooohh! WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
So, wow.
Wow.
This is just pretty frelling awesome, if you’ll pardon my saying so. I’m just a little bit excited here. Why? (Thank you, imaginary leading-question-person!) After having to keep this under my hat for months, it’s finally official: my comedic fantasy novel, Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure, has been optioned by 5×5 Media, Inc. with an eye to develop it into a TV series!!!(!)
I can’t tell you how good it feels to finally be able to TELL people his! It’s bee a while in coming, with lots of maybes, hypotheticals, and uncertainty. There were a lot of positive indications that something might be happening, but, at last, an actual, official option agreement was drawn up, reviewed, and signed! [Read more…]
When you’ve watched Star Wars as much as I have (and God help you if you have), you’ve probably got the majority of the films floating around in your head. Video clips. Audio clips. Weird theories. (SNOKE IS LUKE SKYWALKER’S CLONE!!!) And, again, if you’re like me, you sometimes get them a little mixed up.
The other day on Twitter I ran across a black and white still from The Empire Strikes Back with Vader and Boba Fett standing in the carbon freeze chamber. For some reason, my mind attached a couple of quotes from a different part of the saga to the image. It made me laugh, so I made it into an image and tweeted it out.
Viola.
From there, I decided that hey, why not make this a thing? So, for good or ill, I set to work. The first batch you can see below…
As I’m currently out writing Zeus Is Dead 2 (not the official title) and I’m both easily distracted and eager to share, have a glimpse of a tiny section from the first draft of the book. Will it make it into the final draft? Will it be edited? Will I decide the blatant Walking Dead reference is too much? Who knows!
Haven’t read the original Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure (which contains no zombies whatsoever but does feature venomous, bat-winged kitten swarms)? There’s no time like the present to start!
In which reality TV heroes slay actual monsters and the Greek gods have their own Twitter feeds…