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Emerald City Comic Con!

I’m at ECCC all this weekend, in artist alley, next to the guy who does Owly! So come say hi, and pick up the brand new Conspiracy Friends Volume 2 paperback (if for some reason you weren’t a kickstarter backer, but you probably were, so it’s all good). I also have plenty of copies of all three Chooseomatics, and some odds and ends. IT WILL BE A NONSTOP PARTY AT ECCC BOOTH C04, SO DON’T MISS OUT.

Also, for the first time in THE HISTORY OF FOREVER, it’s super easy to find my table: Come through the main doors, then make very first right. Go all the way to the back wall and turn right again! Keep going ti’ll you hit another wall, then back up four tables because you missed me. Look for my Zombocalypse Now & Time Travel Dinosaur banners!

WOOO ECCC 2015

TOTALLY HAD A BABY, YOU GUYS

He’s tiny and perfect and SOMEHOW ALIVE AND LIVING WITH US IN OUR APARTMENT. My Conspiracy Friends webcomic is on hiatus for a couple of weeks while I figure out WHAT THE HELL I’M DOING WITH A BABY HOLY CRAP, but otherwise it’s business as usual here at Chooseomatic central. If you’re planning on attending Emerald City Comicon or Norwescon in a few weeks, swing by my table and I’ll ramble at you in a incoherent, sleep-deprived haze and show you one million baby pics!

WE DID THE HELL OUT OF THAT

The Conspiracy Friends Book 2 kickastarter was a SMASHING success, inching just past my wildest dreams and hitting the final stretch goal to fund hardcover editions of both books. Thanks to everyone who backed the project! Alas, those hardcovers are a kickstarter exclusives, but we’ll see about bringing them back when it comes time to fund book 3. For now, you can still order the standard paperback edition of book one here, and we’ll be releasing book two to the general public in a month or so after all the kickstarter backers get their copies.

(And if you didn’t even realize I HAD a daily webcomic, you should probably start reading from the beginning…)

Thanks again, everyone! You rule!

WOOOOO WE TOTALLY DID IT

The Conspiracy Friends Book 2 kickastarter was a SMASHING success, inching just past my wildest dreams and hitting the final stretch goal to fund hardcover editions of both books. Thanks to everyone who backed the project! Alas, those hardcovers are a kickstarter exclusives, but we’ll see about bringing them back when it comes time to fund book 3. For now, you can still order the standard paperback edition of book one here, and we’ll be releasing book two to the general public in a month or so after all the kickstarter backers get their copies.

(And if you didn’t even realize I HAD a daily webcomic, you should probably start reading from the beginning…)

Thanks again, everyone! You rule!

The Conspiracy Friends Book 2 Kickstarter is live!

Just so the above video makes any kind of sense, I should explain that in addition to my Chooseomatic gig, I also write and draw Conspiracy Friends, a daily webcomic.

Conspiracy Friends Book Two: The Weird Turn Pro is ready to be printed, and we’ve launched a Kickstarter to make it happen! You can get your copy of the book, plus Book One if you don’t have it already, as well as a custom print of your favorite CF comic and additional swag. And if we meet the first stretch goal, we’re even doing a sweet limited edition hardcover. TELL THE WORLD

I did this interview with Ronnie at SciFiMonkeys at Jet C...

I did this interview with Ronnie at SciFiMonkeys at Jet City Comic Show! Watch four minutes of me being uncomfortably aware of the camera, gesturing at invisible books, and trying to generally figure out what to do with my hands!

It seems like I see Ronnie and Carmen and the rest of the SciFiMonkeys monkeys at pretty much every convention I go to (which is roughly one million conventions), so I’m pretty excited to finally be featured on the site. They are great folks! They make a great website! Go read it right now!

Jet City Comic Show this Saturday

Jet City Comic Show in Tacoma, and I will TOTALLY BE THERE along with such comics luminaries as Peter Bagge, Clayton Crain and Megan Kelso. It’s something of a homecoming for me, since I totally lived in Tacoma for like eighteen years or something and used to run the weekly newspaper down there. So come see me at the convention center Saturday! We will party SO HARD YOU GUYS

Time Travel Dinosaur giveaway at goodreads

A lot of folks seem to have caught on to the fact that my pay-what-you-want gumroad store means that you can choose to pay any amount of money for Chooseomatic ebooks, including zero dollars. What? Free ebooks? That’s CRAZY, you say! Well, I agree, but people are doin’ it.

But what about the people who only read print books, but ALSO don’t want to pay anything? We’ve got them covered as well! We’re giving away three free paperback copies of Time Travel Dinosaur over at goodreads. So if you live in the U.S. or Canada, go enter! SOMEONE is going to get a rad book mailed to them, so it might as well be you!

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Goodreads Book Giveaway







Time Travel Dinosaur



by Matt Youngmark

Giveaway ends October 30, 2014.

See the giveaway details

at Goodreads.

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Time Travel Dinosaur is HERE

We’re pleased as all heck to announce the long-awaited release of the third Chooseomatic Book, TIME TRAVEL DINOSAUR.

You can order a signed paperback directly from me, or pay what you want for the digital version. That’s right, NAME YOUR PRICE and download the TTD ebook as an epub, mobi (for kindle) and pdf. BOOM. Don’t say I never did anything for you.

(If you roll with amazon, you can also get it from amazon.)

ABOUT THE BOOK:

You work for the Time Travel Investigation Agency, a job which, to be honest, is mind-meltingly dull. That is, until a raving lunatic in a lab coat breaks the laws of physics and drastically alters the space-time continuum (changing your memory right along with it). Set off on a wild adventure through the Mesozoic Era, the Middle Ages, the steampunk 1880s, and the distant future in an attempt to safeguard the true timeline.

The timeline where people evolved from dinosaurs.

Time Travel Dinosaur is a sci-fi/comedy ­reimagining of the choose-your-own-path stories you grew up with. Find one of 76 possible endings, or get stuck in a time loop and literally read this book forever.

I’M SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK, YOU GUYS!

It took more than two years to write, and I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. Yeeheehee!

Pay what you want for our digital editions!

I’m getting ready to formally launch two new online stores for Chooseomatic Books, but since I’ve been telling people all day at Rose City Comic Con that my my ebooks are pay-what-you-want, I figured I’d better get a link up PRONTO.

CHOOSEOMATIC EBOOKS! You can now name your price for any ebook we sell — whatever you think is a fair price is what you pay. For the Chooseomatics (or for Tiny Quest) you’ll get three files: pdf, mobi (for kindle), and epub (for nook, kobo or really any other ereader). The Conspiracy friends webcomic collection is pdf only.

AUTOGRAPHED PAPAERBACKS! We’re also launching a separate store so you can order autographed paperbacks straight from the source. (And YES, Time Travel Dinosaur is available for order here, but we won’t have actual copies in hand for a few more weeks, so they won’t ship until some time in October).