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Hey, remember this contest?

Well, don't. I lost. We lost. That's the bad news. The good news? I wrote a frickin' book!  While winning would've been a handy shortcut it was never the plan. So, congratulations to the winners who certainly worked as hard and deserve it as much as any of us down here in the word mines. I tip my sooted flashlight helmet that probably has a name and get back to work.

So what can you do kind follower/supporter/other interested party? Excellent question as always. Well, I'd suggest following ME instead of Bad Trip as I imagine they'll take down the page mid-November. And/or (let's just go with and) come on over to Bookface and follow Bad Trip there for updates and such.

And please accept my sincerest gratitudes to all of you who've supported me thus far. It's hard hunched over a keyboard squinting at words until they stop making sense to know what I'm even doing sometimes. And to see so many people rally for me or find this page by mystery internet ways to click 'Follow' blew my mind on a daily basis. To the point where the words Thank and You seem insufficient. Unfortunately they're the ones I've got. So, thank you.

Now I promise the next time I ask for your credit card information it will be to sell you an actual book not a maybe/possibly future book en potentia.

--MC

Why pot heads?

Because pot heads are people too. And I knew a bunch in college. Shrug. They say write what you know, don’t they? Yeah, sure, I could’ve picked another hobby or scene, but that would’ve taken research. You know who else wrote Fantasy books about pot heads? JRR Tolkein. I’m just saying, it’s not as niche as it might appear at first blush.

BUT I understand that many of you might be all “Oh boy, 650 pages of weed jokes I won’t get? No thanks.” Sure, you’d be right to think so. I DO kind of lead with that because something something marketing. However if you’re kind enough to look over my samples, you’ll find this ain’t ‘Cheech and Chong’ and it’s definitely not ‘Your Highness’.

It’s a story about eight kids you knew/know/will know in college in a fucked up situation. Maybe you and your friends. Or friends of friends. Or the group down the hall who were a little loud but okay you guess. Or heck, maybe you hated those jerks. Well come read about me beating them up a bunch. You can’t lose.

--MC

M.C. Henley · Author · added over 8 years ago
That's interesting Shortney, I've never heard of Shrooms, so I couldn't really say. But looking it up it seems like Shrooms is straight horror? At least IMDB makes it sound that way.

Bad Trip definitely has some horror in it once they awaken in a new place and are forced to survive. But not like a "What's in the woods" horror, more like "What the fuck is happening/are we going to do?" horror. Being mostly about funny people in an unfunny situation, and waxing into Fantasy sooner than later.

Hope that answers your question.

--MC
Courtney Smith · Reader · added over 8 years ago
This book sounds very interesting to me! However, I'm getting a little bit tripped up. How different is your story from the storyline of the movie Shrooms? I want to like your book in its own right but I cannot help but continuously make comparisons between the two! Can you clear this up for me so I can just be thinking of your book as I read rather than the movie as well?

Just uploaded the Prologue which is a ridiculously clunky amount of clicks away, so here

I wanted to avoid having a Prologue at all, because the Internet says they're passe and who am I to argue with the Internet? Granted, most of the time - in Fantasy especially - the Prologue is just an assault of made-up words you won't understand about a bunch of stuff you don't know to care about yet.

Okaaaaay, but...?

But the first, best note I got from a friend was there needs to be SOME promise (as early as possible) that this isn't 650 pages of kids doing bong hits in dorm rooms. That it's not ALL fun and games.

He was right, the author admitted begrudgingly.

Hence: Prologue. Enjoy, Like, comment, share, etc.

Please and thank you,

--MC

Hey everybody who can see this.

 

First, thanks for being able to see this. That means you’re someone with excellent taste in book pitches about portal fantasies featuring casual drug use. Oooor a personal friend/family member I guilt-stared into supporting my dream. Either way, thank you.

 

Your support has put me in a respectable position in the contest, if still outside the winner’s circle by a bunch. Which is why I must now ask all you fantastically good looking people with such impeccable taste to help me out. See, I’ve pretty much reached the limits of my broadcast radius. I’m shouting ‘buy my book!’ to a group of people holding my book and looking at me, like, “Dude.”

 

So what can you do? Wow, what a great question. You’re very smart, also handsome/pretty/other. Unfortunately, yeah, I don’t really know. Right? I mean this is my first time too.


I guess tell other attractive, intelligent people that if they want to be cool like you, they should create a unique login for a website they’ve never heard of and give over their financial information to help a stranger. Maybe phrase it differently, I dunno, mix it up, have fun with it. Assure them they won’t be charged if I fall short of my dreams on account of their inaction. Tell them prepaid cards work if they like privacy so much.

 

You know what else works? And I’m just spit-balling here: startling your eldest relative from a nap by shouting, “Quick I need your email address and credit card information to get the internet off your lawn!” Like, not that I’m recommending that. But I’m not discouraging it either? If we understand each other.

 

BONUS IN BIG LETTERS: if you get people to sign up via ‘Recommending’ you’ll get credits to buy other future books on Inkshares. Consider starting a pyramid scheme with that information. Also they – and you – should like my page on the Book of Faces where I’m posting ~800 words snippets to entice and amaze. Come by and say hi. It’s right here: https://www.facebook.com/BadTripBook

 

Have you already read any draft of Bad Trip? Please leave comments or reviews that assure all the nice people it’s worth it. That you know what they’re thinking. You had doubts too. But seriously, the book is pretty good once you get into it. Like CS Louis and JRR Tolkein had a much funnier baby. Who grew up to have another baby with JK Rowling… and then there was a mix up at the hospital and… listen, it gets weird from there, you don’t have time. Just tell them they’ll like it, and should give it a shot.

 

Have questions or comments? Please leave them on Inkshares or the aforementioned Facepage. Unless they’re hurtful. I mean, I have feelings, you know?

 

Thanks all of y’all again. For your time, interest, patience, or any combination of the three. Also your money. Really, the money part is key for the contest thing.

 

--MC

 

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C.D. Gallant-King · Author · edited over 8 years ago · 1 like
I am digging this! It's right up my alley, my kinda book with my kind of humour. Looking forward to more.  Good luck, sir!