Some very good reasons to read my new book… which is the third book in my action/humor science fiction series… and maybe even read the first two books as well…

a 3Yeah… it has tie dye-wearing ninja assassins from another dimension, trying to kill the hero… which, as it turns out, is me… but not this me, a me in even another dimension… Okay, the little bear isn’t really in the story… I just added that for fun… wait, I take that back, there are some aliens that our hero calls ‘Rainbow Bears’ that have a dark secret, so that little bear does sort of work in that context.

You also get to meet an alien who learned to speak English by watching Monty Python’s Flying Circus reruns and can only speak using lines from their skits… which is how I met Mr. Eric Idle on Twitter, and struck up a friendship, and got him to follow me on Twitter, but that is another story… And you meet an abominable snowman alien, and a bunch of human supremacists who hate aliens and alien supremacists who hate humans… but both those groups live right next to each other…

Oh, and you get to meet Fawnya…

a 2… who isn’t actually green, but rather blue, but I did this picture before I decided what color she was going to be… and her mate, Fadoodoo, who both live in a big volcano made of their own poop… although, technically, we never really do find out in the book whether or not it is actually their poop or not, and tend to speak like Russian spies from a bad Cold War movie.

And all this takes place as the hero… who is, once again, me… takes a walk around a giant alien space station called the Hubb… being chased by alien and human assassins sent from another dimension because our hero has screwed up the plans of an evil dictator who rules that dimension to come and invade his dimension. And because our hero is sarcastic and lazy and takes nothing seriously and hates responsibility… (once again, he is me, after all)… he is shirking his new duties as CEO of the largest alien/human intergalactic corporation in the history of any dimension… which the American president sort of forced him to take on, after he saved the alien space station from space pirates… in the first book… and saved San Francisco from being blown up by the old CEO of the corporation… in the second book… and now, because all his exploits were televised to the entire universe, and he is the darling of  billions of living beings, he is sulking and taking a vacation… which is bad, because that invasion I told you about, it is still going to happen. The good news is that he put all his human and alien poker buddies in charge of the company while he is off being juvenile, which, as it turns out, was a really good idea.

Hey, not bad for a guy who started off as the janitor at a Texas-style bar on the alien space station.

So… uh… yeah… just go over to the sidebar and click on the picture of this book…

a 1…0r the pictures of the other two books… and a link will take you to a magic place where they will print a copy of those books… or of my famous children’s book; I Like Monkeys… on actual paper made from actual dead trees… and send them right to your house.

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You know you want one… part 5…

a 62Now how is that for a ringing endorsement?

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You know you want one… part 4…

a 65Fashionable… and you have to admire truth in advertising, right?

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You know you want one… part 3…

a 67Because this way, you can wear tie dye without really having to wear tie dye…

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You know you want one… part 2…

a 68What could be better than a shirt with my face on it? A shirt with 4 of my faces on it!

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You know you want one… part 1…

a 66I mean, seriously, if you could order that shirt, you would, right? Just look at all the pretty colors. And it has me on it!

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I took your advice, for a change… here is the new back cover of my new children’s book…

new back cover copyMany of you said that my original artwork for the back cover (shown below) was too… ‘busy’… ‘jolting’… well, you used a lot of different words to tell me it wasn’t my best work…

back cover copyOkay, the thing is… and I could have kept this ‘thing’ to myself, and made you feel like I was getting better at taking your advice… but the thing… and the truth… is that my daughter, Jessica, who compiles and formats my books and sends them to the publisher… decided that, because of the fact that some of the art I did for the book was in a ‘landscape’ format, and some was in a ‘portrait’ format, we should go with a square shape for this book… and the new picture fits better.

That being said, she also agreed that the back page had too much going on.

So… see… I agreed with you… more or less.

Although I still think that first idea would have grabbed the attention of little kids…

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And here I was thinking that I didn’t have any fashion sense…

imageedit_7_6759673420First, I would like thank my younger daughter, Mollie, who doesn’t think it is at all weird that her dad asked her to stand perfectly still in the back yard for five minutes while he changed into a bunch of tie-dye shirts, just so she could snap these pictures…

I was going through my t-shirt drawer the other day, you know, to get rid of a few that I never wear anymore, and make room for some new ones, and it struck me that I have a lot of tie-dye shirts. Hey, I’m not apologizing. I grew up in Berkeley. I am still a hippy and a dead head at heart. And tie-dye is awesome. It never goes out of style… (okay, I know nothing about style, but I do know that it keeps coming back into style)… Also, it is the perfect shirt to wear if you are a messy eater… or have a dentist appointment and tend to bleed a lot… because stains do not show up on tie-dye… just sayin’.

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Breaking evil… part 6… (or); Seriously, I would become evil just for the hats…

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Breaking evil… part 5… (or); A good reason for not turning to the dark side…

a 51Yes, being evil can be lots of fun and it certainly comes with some perks. You get to wear awesome hats and crazy outfits with big collars and huge shoulder extensions. On the other hand, you might end up with Gilbert Gottfried yelling in your ear all day.

I, for one, am not willing to risk that.

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