Hello Monkeys!

Guess what? I was lucky enough to be invited to the WriteBrain podcast last week
hosted by JF Dubeau and Paul Inman. They were both super nice and very fun to chat with. We talked about some of the books in the current Nerdist Video Game themed contest and they asked me some questions about Monkey Business and being published under the Quill Imprint of Inkshares.

So if you’re interested in listening to the podcast, check it out here!

And while you’re clicking around the old interwebs, please check out Paul’s book Ageless and JF’s books The Life Engineered and A God In The Shed!

And if that’s not enough for you, you can always zoom on over to Amazon and leave your mark on the Monkey Business Race to 100 Reviews! Currently stalled out at 25 reviews and just waiting for you to get in there and do your thing!

That’s all for now. Thanks everybody!   - Landon

Dear friends and followers,

If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that I spent the past week catching the shows at the Montreal Fringe Festival, and reviewing them. I’ve been lucky this year in having picked some very strong performances; even the worst among my picks was merely "okay".

So I haven’t really been focussing on the pre-order sales for "Murder at the Veterans’ Club", and, to be honest, I think it may be time to sit back a bit, regather my energy, and reconsider my approach. Also, I need to finish that short story for "Too Many Controllers".

For now, let’s have another look at the Veterans’ Club officers. This time, Edward Garrett:

And meanwhile! What’s happening on the Inkshares bookshelves? Let’s take a look at a couple more books in the Nerdist contest:

1) "Destiny Imperfect", by Peter Ryan. I think I said something similar back when I talked about Ryan’s other book, "Sync City", but Ryan has a great "voice". He does "angry dystopia" really well, and a good voice is 75% of a book’s quality. "Destiny Imperfect", which appears to be a parallel-world "who’s really in control?" deal, is no exception.

2) "SideScroller", by Andrew Fantasia. Swashbuckling adventure/romance, it says, and who doesn’t love a bit of that in their lives? The story progresses on video game rules: when we get a peek at one character’s ID card, it looks more like an RPG character sheet than any sort of real-world ID. It’s a sort of "meta" sensibility that would appeal to anyone familiar with video game mores.

And that’s it for this week. Until next week: have fun, and keep reading.

I’m going to have to change the word "race" to "slow, steady march" but the goal remains the same. 100 reviews or bust! We’re a quarter of the way there. Who’s with me?

Leave an Amazon review here!

Thanks monkeys!

I realized how much I’ve been neglecting my precious little book, "An Adventure With Dada," lately. 

Hi, my faithful and wonderful Readers,

I am happy to announce that my lengthy silence is (hopefully) over! The past few weeks have been a tumult of real life, depression, anxiety, and installing new book cases in my house! The new book cases are wonderful...the other stuff wasn’t so wonderful. Here’s a picture of the new book cases to cheer us all up. ...

Hello Everybody, the long climb to 100 reviews continues. I’ve got a little extra tidbit for you today also! Elan Samuel of the Warbler was kind enough to give me an interview about Monkey Business and being the first Quill author. You can find that on his site here:

Elan Samuel Interviews Premier Quill Author: Landon Crutcher

So if you want to hear me drone on (a lot) about Quill, give that a listen. And a huge thanks to Elan for being kind enough to have me.

People continue to get their books, some people are buying it for the first time and I hope you’ll all keep heading over to Amazon to leave reviews. Thank you all so much. Hope you have a good Tuesday.

Review Monkey Business at Amazon.

Greetings Everyone,

Long time no update. And there has been news. Oh how there has been news. But also, there has been school and so I’ve been hunkered down with tales of prophecy and murder while contacting scientists who monitor space debris and...well, that’s all done now. School is out, so instead of all that writing, I can spend my time doing...other writing. But like I said, first...news.

I write audio drama/radio plays. (I might have mentioned it.) So naturally one of the first questions I was asked (via the Our Fair City Tumblr page) was whether or not there would be an audio book version of An Unattractive Vampire. Honestly, I hadn’t given it much thought, being too preoccupied with "Oh my gosh, I have a real, physical book out." But Inkshares thought about it. They thought about it a lot.

I am incredibly pleased to announce that an An Unattractive Vampire audio book is currently in production at Audible. Oh...you know Audible, the leading provider of audio books. They only sponsor about every podcast ever. (Hence why I know they’re intro pitch.) I am very lucky that they have picked up the audio rights to my book and will keep you all posted on this story as it progresses.

Also, I am pleased to report that we are just four reviews shy of hitting our first magic number (50) on Amazon. What does this mean? It means An Unattractive Vampire will show up more in Amazon searches. Which means more eyes. Which means more purchases. Which means money, which means time, which equals writing. (Because that’s how math works. So, please...go to Amazon and review An Unattractive Vampire. I’ll wait.

Other, other news:
A few more positive reviews went up on HorrorTalk.com and Fanbase Press. You can check them out here. Or you know, send them to friends. 

Did I mention that I write audio drama? Well I do and my first episode of Our Fair City Season 7 went out last week. After last seasons cataclysm learn the (tragic?) fate of our lovable molepeople in "A Molepup Misadventure."

So about this audio drama thing. (Pretty sure I mentioned it.) This last weekend was also the HEAR Now Festival in Kansas City, MO, celebrating audio drama and my MAT contest winning piece "Last Transmission" was an official selection for the podcast showcase. (In case you missed it before, you can listen to it at the Midnight Audio Theatre website.)

At the end of June (beginning of July) I will be in Minneapolis for CONvergence. I’ll be doing a couple panels. plastering the convention with postcards and posters, and making my second attempt ever at playing D&D. So if any of you are up in the Great White North, come say hi and watch me flounder around as I try and not judge myself for not being Critical Role. 

That’s all for now.