This is my list of April Fools Day stuff that made me laugh and/or smile. I’ll be updating throughout the day.

• Google introduces Auto Awesome Photobombs with David Hasselhoff.
• HabitRPG appears to have turned my character into an eggplant.
• ThinkGeek. Always worth checking out on April 1. (I want the NERF Nuke!!!)
• Ada Hoffmann posts the programming ( Read more... )

Between sick kids, writing-related work, and a few other things, I haven’t gotten the chance to do much original blog content this week. So it’s rerun time! This is something I wrote back in 2009, to the beat of Green Eggs and Ham. It’s dedicated to all of my long-suffering editor friends…

#

Slush I Read
by Jim C. Hines

(Apologies to Seuss)

I read ( Read more... )

I’m thinking I should take a lesson from the Internet and promote my books under different titles to try to attract more attention. What do you think? Would you buy any of the following?

The Goblin Series:

• Goblin Quest This Goblin Went Face-to-Face with a Dragon. You Won’t Believe What Happens Next!
• Goblin Hero 13 Amazing Facts About Goblin Magic
• ( Read more... )

Buy My Book
by Jim C. Hines
(To the tune of “Be Our Guest,” with apologies to Disney)

Congratulations to you, brand new author,
on the publication of your masterpiece.
And now I invite you to stop, step back, and listen
as readers throughout the world beg you: Please don’t be…
That Guy.

Buy my book!
Buy my book!
Just a dollar on your Nook!
Click the ( Read more... )

Baby Got Books
by Jim C. Hines
(with apologies to Sir Mixalot)

(Intro)
Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her book.
It is so big. You could, like,
Fend off a rabid jaguar.
But, you know, who even reads those genres?
She only wants dragons and swords.
It’s not like that’s real literature, right?
I mean, her book, is just so big.
I can’t believe it’s just so ( Read more... )

The internet is for cat pics, right? Well, this is for everyone who misread the title of my next e-book collection…


( Read more... )

Normally, I’d run a First Book Friday post here.  Alas, I didn’t have one ready.  I’ve got several invitations out, but since I’m not paying for these posts, I don’t feel right setting deadlines or pressuring people who are already taking the time to write something for us.

So then I was going to do a First Book Friday roundup with links back to ( Read more... )

THE DREAM:


( Read more... )

Yes, I’m totally laughing at myself here.  But I take comfort from the fact that I’m laughing at all the rest of us, too.


( Read more... )

My contribution to the "I Write Like" meme going around.


( Read more... )