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Release Party Pictures!

Woohoo! It’s taken me a while to get to this, but I promised pictures from the release party of TRICKED, which we called Atticus n’ Oberon’s Sausage Fest. Held at Rula Bula, the Irish pub on Mill Avenue featured in the series, it was a completely spiffy gathering during which I got to hang out with some of my awesome readers. I won’t put up every single picture here because there are far too many, but if you’d like to see more than what I post here, please go to my author Facebook page and look for the album.

Quick business first: John Bonfiglio and Jenn from Tynga’s Reviews—you are #10 and #40, respectively, chosen by Random.org to be the winners of Shawntelle Madison’s COVETED! Please shoot me an email with your address so we can ship it out to you. Congratulations!

These pictures were all taken by Mike Ruggiero, the head honcho of Mike Ruggiero Photography. He does weddings and family portraits and all kinds of events…like Sausage Fests. Give him a call if you’re in Arizona and you need someone good.

Michelle wins the award for distance—she came out from London. She's helping me a bit with research for book six, HUNTED, which finds Atticus in England. It was so cool to meet her—and the lady taking our picture is Kat from Canada, who came in a close second in the distance contest thingie. Not that there really was a contest.
Please note the TOTALLY RAD tie-dyed THIRD EYE BOOKS & HERBS T-shirt! They gave me one too and I boggled. I love my readers!
Slammin' an Irish Car Bomb with the guys. Wound up doing two more of those. Plus two glasses of whiskey. Plus...oh my god I had a hangover the next day.
Talkin' with Rob from Ohio. He's an aeronautical engineer. What you should take away from this picture is that smart guys wear baseball caps.
The famous fish n' chips that helped Atticus decide to stay in Arizona for a while. The chips are like "potato coins" rather than frozen french fries. The beer batter is made fresh on site. It makes all the difference. NOM NOM NOM
With Lesa Holstine, the uber-awesome branch manager of the Velma Teague library in Glendale. They often host authors there for talks, and I'll be there this Saturday, the 19th, at 2pm. Come on by and say hi to us! Look, we're friendly!
Part of the patio of Rula Bula features a lovely tree canopy. Once I walked under it, I was promptly shat upon by an avian "fan." It landed on my left sleeve. It did little to crush my spirit, as you can see. It may have horrified other people, however. Not sure.
These wonderful ladies from Florida had NEVER thrown up the horns for a picture before. After a quick tutorial, they totally rocked it. You may notice that there are three people here and seven hands. I cannot explain this. I swear it's not Photoshopped.
Signing a little somethin' for Nina, who came with Jess from San Diego and Santo Santos de los Santos, or some other San City in California. We made plans for piracy. Not electronic piracy, mind. Mostly we want to drink rum on a ship and wear bandanas.
One of my favorite people, Lorien. I signed her Nook cover! Woohoo! In the background, an awesome shot of Oberon on the back of the tie-dyed shirt!
Ready to do another Car Bomb with Ted and the crew from Denver. Hope to get back to Denver soon; love it up there.
Had such a great time at Rula Bula with my readers! Thank you all so much for coming, and thanks to the wonderful people at Rula Bula for having us! Hope to do it again for the release of TRAPPED. Stay tuned for details—I'll announce it here! Remember more photos are available on my Facebook page in Atticus n' Oberon's album.

 

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Sausage Fest Contest!

I do stuff when I feel like it. Usually I feel like it when I have reached an arbitrary number of readers going clickity-click on social media sites. I have 3,000 Likes on Facebook (thanks to Mindi and Pete Young!) and 1,692 birdies on Twitter. Those look like good numbers to me. So I should do some stuff! Or rather, give stuff away!

Here is the stuff I’m giving away to two Sausage Fest Contest winners: 1) A Sausage Fest pint glass 2) A Sausage Fest T-shirt in your size 3) A signed Sausage Fest poster and 4) An early, signed author’s copy of TRICKED. Aw yeah!

Wanna know why this is the best contest EVAR? It’s because you get to EAT YOUR ENTRY—after you take a picture of it. If you think about it, you really can’t lose! You get tasty nom noms and you might also win bonus book-related stuff from that Kevin guy. Best. Contest. EVAR.

So here’s how you enter: Cook something tasty with sausage in it, take a digital picture, and then email it to me with a caption. The caption should include a luxuriously written description of the food pictured, followed by your name. You can use a fake secret agent name if you want. I’ll post all entries into a gallery on my author Facebook page. It should look nummy like this:

The Iron Druid Breakfast consists of a succulent cheese and chive omelet, toast with orange marmalade, and three juicy maple sausage links. Tabasco spices up the omelet and coffee washes it down. Submitted by Kevin Hearne, Nerfherder.

One person will win in a Random.Org drawing, so you don’t necessarily have to be a great chef or anything. You could give me a sad picture of biscuits and gravy with one nugget of sausage in it and still potentially win. But one person will win because that person is frickin’ awesome. They’ll make a beautiful dish, take a beautiful picture, and write an amazing caption. And everyone will salivate.

I suggest that the sausage be plainly visible in the picture. Don’t just take a picture of a bun and some lettuce and tell me there’s a patty hidden underneath. We are celebrating sausage in all its tubular, greasy glory. It should be the focus! And yes, soy/tofu sausage is perfectly acceptable. We just won’t tell Oberon.

Also consider composition. Will there be drinks? Will there be origami? Dogs photobombing? Will there be playful visual double entendres?

Mostly I want you to have fun and enjoy entering. I hope you’ll experiment and create something tasty for yourself and the family. Become a gourmet foodie for a while. Life’s too short not to do something like this once in a while, you know?

Okay, let’s give this until February 29. That way you have a couple of weekends to work with. Please email entries to kevin @ kevinhearne.com. Have fun!!!

Oh, one more thing: I don’t have my author copies yet and probably won’t get them until April, so you’ll still have to wait until April to find out what happened to the widow and if Leif is going to make it…you just won’t have to wait until April 24. :)

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Atticus & Oberon’s Sausage Fest!

Here’s all the info you’ve been waiting for on the big shindig to celebrate the release of TRICKED next April at Rúla Búla! Though it might seem waaay early to be thinking of it now, I’m trying to be considerate of some folks who might need to make travel plans, think of an excuse to get off work, arrange for cots at their friend’s house, and so on.

It will be held on Saturday, April 28, from 3-6 pm—though you are welcome to stay once the place is opened to the public. Only 100 tickets will be sold. Here’s what ticket holders get for $33:

—A signed, personalized copy of TRICKED.
—Your choice of three entrees: Atticus’s fave, the fish and chips, or Oberon’s fave, the bangers and mash, or a strawberry salad with chicken. (These are all on Rúla Búla’s menu online.)
—A drink ticket good for your choice of iced tea or soda, a pint of a fine draught beer, or a well drink.
—A souvenir pint glass emblazoned with the logo you see to your left.
—A signed, limited-run poster of the event, suitable for hanging in your garage and taunting all your friends.
—Musical entertainment, and I promise it won’t be bagpipes.
—Best of all, time to chill and chat with people who like beer, sausage, urban fantasy, and doggies! There’s no line to stand in. I will come to visit YOU. We can make goofy faces for your camera phone. You can ask what happened to my hair. We can sing loudly and badly and irritate the band. It’ll be awesome.

I love meeting people but I hate lines, so I thought this would be more fun. If I do a regular signing at a bookstore, I can’t do an Irish Car Bomb with you or nurse a glass of Tullamore Dew, or Redbreast, or any other fine Irish whiskey while we chat for a while. Chatting for more than 30 seconds at a bookstore is generally out of the question because of THE LINE. So my solution was to bring a legendary bookstore— The Poisoned Pen—to the legendary Rúla Búla. The people at The Poisoned Pen are completely awesome. They will ship internationally and they’re great about getting personalized stuff taken care of, too. So if you’d like extra copies for friends/family, or if you can’t make it at all but would still like a signed copy, please give ’em a call!

TICKETS GO ON SALE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, at 11 am EST. You can buy them right here on my blog. I will post a blog entry at that time with a link to the “store” where you can buy tickets. Limit 2 per household! It’s through PayPal, which will basically allow you to pay with whatever credit card you like.

What if you can’t get one of the 100 tickets? Well, you should come by anyway at 6 pm! Rúla Búla will be open to the public then and I’ll stick around too, because where else would I want to go besides Rúla Búla on a Saturday night? If you place a pre-order with The Poisoned Pen ahead of time, your book will be waiting for you, and I’d be so pleased to meet you and natter on! I might have some of the pint glasses left, maybe some other stuff too, but there will definitely be books and beer and cool people wherever you look.

If you have a dog, make sure you bring pictures! :)

If you’re thinking of coming from out of state and making it part of a wee vacation, Phoenix Sky Harbor is only about a ten minute drive from Rúla Búla. If you have any questions, ask in the comments and I’ll try to answer quickly. :)