Swag! Parties! Apocalypse!

Today is the launch party for the Apocalypse Weird series BIG FIVE book drop. That means five of the books are all available today to buy in e-book form. Eventually they'll all be out in print, too.

A book launch party is where you basically can just come and chat with other authors & fans. We usually end up asking questions like "what kind of horror stories do you like" or "favorite book ever" and then people just have a good time talking about it. Honestly, it's one of my favorite parts about the Internet-- getting to chat about books and writerly things!

The launch party is here.

But the point of this post is about my SWAG. I'll be giving away two signed, personalized copies of the print version of Mariposa. Several e-books of both it and Mrs. Johnson's Blues will also be available.

The biggest thing is a video, like this one:

I'll design for you and give away a free author, artist, fan, band, whatever-you-want, video. It's a professionally designed promotional tool, basically. You can publicize one book, or all of your books. You could also get one to promo your band, your photography company, your editing service. If you don't have a writer or creative style business, you can make a "the day my kids were born" or "wedding" or whatever you have that you want a cool video of.  There are several other projects I've made for other authors and editors here, if you want to see more samples.

I'll create it, get your input on music. You can add customizable stock footage if you want (that will cost whatever the stock pictures cost extra, but I have a pretty good subscription plan, so it's not too bad.) And you can either link to the video from my YouTube account or get an HD version of it that you can do with what you want. That one won't have any branding on it if you don't want it. You have to provide me with some info-- if you're doing a book, for example, you will want to give me book blurbs and/or book reviews you're a fan of.

So that's it! My stuff will be available during my hosting hour, which is 5-6 PST. The party starts here. 

P.S. We're also having a continuation of the party tomorrow over on Reddit in an "Ask Us Anything" posting at http://www.reddit.com/r/books