Hello Everybody! It's been a long, long time since there was a Monkey Business update but I figured you guys could use a little break. I mean, monkeys are exhausting. So what's happening? Monkey Business is in production as (I think) the first Quill publication from Inkshares. Yay! It looks like it will be shipping in May and that's great because it's a perfect summer read.

Updates will become more frequent as we near release date and we've got some fun stuff in the works to ramp up for that. So I'll get back to you about all these things as they come along.

In other news I just wanted to say thank you to the following folks for their kind reviews during A.C. Weston's Review-A-Thon. And by the way, thank you Cara for making that happen. You're awesome!

Stephen Carignan, Yicheng Liu and Tony Bony Valdez. Thank you all so much for the reviews. I really appreciate them!

And lastly, not to single my man out or anything but I want to hard-pitch Tony's book Dax Harrison. This is one of my two favorite books I have yet discovered on Inkshares and I want you all to order it immediately. Here's what you do, go read the samples and just imagine Nathan Fillion as Dax Harrison... you will be made happy:

https://www.inkshares.com/projects/dax-harrison-2276?recommended=true

I'll update you guys again soon. Take care little monkeys and enjoy your New Year!

- Landon

What's up and stuff followers of Monkey Business? Hope everyone is doing well. 

As of right now Monkey Business is the first (and I think only) book in the Quill Collection here at Inkshares! That is all because of timing and not because of anything special I did but I'm still excited and proud. I have submitted the manuscript, marketing copy, cover blurbs, bios and everything else to Inkshares (except cover art, that comes a little later after they figure out the actual page count.) So for the next couple weeks the awesome folks at Inkshares will be trying to turn my word vomit into something marketable.

Since Monkey Business will be the first book to go through the "Light Publishing" process I'm assuming there will be some hiccups along the way but right now we're looking at about 5 months until there's a signed book in your hand.

I'll keep you all updated as I move through the process. If you like the book, please share it with friends and if you have a minute please like my writing page on Facebook (linked below.) Thank you all again for the interest and support. As for me know, I move on to the next thing and I may be asking for your input on that soon.

Hugs and kisses and manly fist bumps,

Landon

https://www.facebook.com/landonwrites/?ref=hl

Hello folks! 

My wife is currently on a plane somewhere over America doing a final read through of Monkey Business. Once she's done with that I'll be sending in the manuscript to Inkshares. Presumably they will try to turn it into something a person might actually want to read.

I don't know if they've completely worked out the light publishing process yet but we'll find out together. I'll let you know more as I know more.

Thank you all. Thank you so much.

- Landon 

Well I asked for input and you gave me input... And that input was overwhelmingly this:

"Hey Landon, dum dum head, your book will qualify for the new 'light publishing' option at Inkshares if you only reach 250 pre-orders, so why don't you just do that you big, stupid, smelly moron?"

Message received everybody. We'll do that. So how about a couple more of you preorder while I think of some way to repay you all?

Thank you!

Dum Dum Head Landon

Happy Saturday everybody! Hope you're all having a good weekend. I know quite a few authors have sent out updates today so I'll keep it short. Monkey Business is almost 25% funded. We've got 54 days to go. So obviously we've got some work to do. I just added PART 5 to the site. It's definitely my favorite section we've put up so far, so please check it out.

If you're a reader and you've been on the fence about pre-ordering, I think now would be a great time! In fact, if you wanted to order 3 copies that would be even better!

That is all for now. As always, if anyone has any thoughts, requests or suggestions, please let me know. My email is below. Thank you all for following!

- Landon

landoncrutcher@gmail.com

First off, congratulations to the five winners of the Nerdist competition. Well done to each of you. And super congrats to  Welcome to Deadland by Zachary Tyler Linville
 and  It’s All Fun and Games by Dave Barrett for being selected as Nerdist's first collection novels. Nice job guys!

Now that this really cool contest is over all of us who didn't win are probably tempted to take some time off and lick our wounds. Well Monkey Business says screw that noise. We're not licking anything. We're forging ahead on the long road to 1,000 pre-orders. Now that everybody here is all hunky dory back on the same team and not in competition anymore, lets get on with this business. This Monkey Business.

See what I did there?

I would like to start my post-Nerdist marketing push by asking, what do you guys want? I don't feel great about just pummeling you with requests to order my book. Would you like me to post more of it on the site? Would you like an audio recording? Would you like me to do some more silly sock puppet videos? I'm here to help so if anybody has any requests, thoughts, etc. Let me know. Your thoughts are appreciated!

Having said that, I will include a link to the facebook page for Monkey Business. Please like it, share it, build an empire of monkeys who will pre-order this book into existence. And send me any suggestions you might have to my email below.

Thank you guys so much! Hope you have a great day,

Landon

https://www.facebook.com/landonwrites

landoncrutcher@gmail.com