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Zeus Is Dead: Audiobook Release!

August 28, 2018 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

At long last, Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure is available as an audiobook today!

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! đŸ˜€

Zeus Is Dead audiobook

The razorwing isn’t white! OOOooohh! WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

I may be biased, but I think you should get this audiobook just as soon as humanly possible.

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Filed Under: Books, Featured, Press, Zeus Is Dead Tagged With: Amazon Audible, audiobook, Fantasy, Humor, Mythology, Tantor Media, Travis Baldree, Zeus Is Dead

Buy Books and Help Fight Climate Change

January 27, 2017 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

Want to help raise awareness about climate change and help the fight to stop it? Want to get some fun books in the bargain? Starting today, Friday, January 27th, and running through midnight on Friday, February 3rd, I will be donating any and all profits from my book sales to the Environmental Defense Fund.

Why? (Do you really have to ask?) While, as a rule, I don’t post political stuff on this blog–a rule I’m less strict about on my Twitter and Facebook–the fact that there’s a virulent climate change denier in charge of my country right now disturbs me beyond my capacity to articulate. Trump to continues to claim climate change is a hoax–deciding, somehow, that he knows better than the massively overwhelming scientific majority–and now works to ruin the EPA’s efforts to fight it or even to disseminate accepted scientific facts. I care about the planet we live on, about the millions (billions?) of people whose lives will be damaged or even destroyed by unchecked climate change, and about making sure we pass on a cleaner, brighter, healthier future to future generations rather than forcing them to suffer in a world we were too shortsighted, too selfish, or too stubborn to prevent.

Essentially, this kind of thing affects us all, and, as astrophysicist Katherine J. Mack tweeted…

Stating scientific facts about the atmosphere of our planet is not and must not be “politics.” Reality should not be a political stance.

— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) January 24, 2017

So I guess you could say I’m still not really violating my political posting policy. Ya know, from a certain point of view. (Obi-Wan, working the “alternative facts.”)

I picked the Environmental Defense Fund because it’s a well-established charity with a high rating on CharityNavigator.org. They work on multiple levels via direct action, education, and government partnership, not just for climate change but for developing renewable resources like fishing and crops, and on other fronts as well. (See their website for more information there.)

So, as I said, if you purchase any of my books between now and Friday, February 3rd, I will donate all profits to the EDF. That means every single royalty dollar (and cent) I receive for those sales goes straight on to them.

Now, okay, I’m not anywhere near the highest-selling author in the world, or the U.S., or even my home state or city. (I think I probably sell more books than anyone on my city block, though! Woot?) I’m under no illusions that this will generate a massive donation surge for the EDF–though I’d love for you to prove me wrong, of course. So I’ve already made a donation of my own on top of this, and I plan to pledge a monthly donation out of my own pocket as well.

Putting my money where my mouth is. Or EDF’s mouth, I guess. That’s a weird turn of phrase, huh?

Below, for your convenience, are links to where you can get my books. Buy a book (via any means, it doesn’t have to be via these links) and you’ve made a donation at no extra cost to you (beyond the cost of the book itself, of course, in exchange for which you’re getting a book). Already have copies? Did you know you can give Kindle books as gifts now? And, of course, if you’d like to give directly to the EDF as well, go for it!

 

 

Update: It’s now Saturday, February 4th, so this promotion is over. Royalties for the past week only totaled $90, but I hope that means a lot of people donated directly to the EDF. To those of you who purchased during that time, thank you, and the funds have now been sent on to the EDF. I also plan to make monthly donations from my own pocket going forward.

Missed the promotion? You can still give to the Environmental Defense Fund directly!

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Filed Under: Books, Miscellaneous Tagged With: books, charity, Climate Change, Environmental Defense Fund, Fantasy, Geek Interest, Mythology, New Aeneid Cycle, resist, Science Fiction, Zeus Is Dead

Writing Update: A Dragon at the Gate & Zeus Is Dead 2

August 27, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 1 Comment

Writing a story never quite goes the way you think it will.

Something always changes along the way, even if you plan ahead of time. Things occur to you while writing, characters take control in your head, and sometimes just the act of getting an idea on paper brings out its negative points that didn’t seem nearly so problematic beforehand. And that’s not a bad thing; often this leads to something better in the end.

A Dragon at the Gate

Coming in 2015?

Yet that voyage of discovery takes time, especially when you–and here when I say “you” I mean “me”–are not the fastest writer in the world. How I long for the prolific rate of Stephen King, but that’s just not how my mind works. (Also, Stephen King doesn’t have a non-writing day job taking up his time.) And all that is my lead-in to saying that A Dragon at the Gate is not progressing as quickly as I’d like. [Read more…]

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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse – Ch 4

April 20, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

The Titan's Curse - Chapter 4

“Let’s go see if we boiled anyone important, shall we?”

And now, the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Or the moment I’ve all been waiting for. (That’s right, I’ve been waiting for this so long that I’ve become plural! Can you handle us right now?) Apollo finally shows up in the fourth chapter of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse, a.k.a…

Thalia Torches New England

As a Seahawks fan, I can get behind this title. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Michael Reads, TTC Tagged With: Apollo, Fantasy, Let's Read, Mythology, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan, Thalia, The Titan's Curse, Zeus Is Dead

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