Announcements

If you don’t know already, I have TWO books coming out on February 7th, Hilarity Ensues and Sloppy Seconds. You can pre-order Hilarity Ensues here:

Amazon
B & N
iBooks

You won’t be able to pre-order Sloppy Seconds, you can’t get it until the day it comes out. There is a reason for that and it’s going to be awesome, I promise.

Some other things:

No book tour this time: I have done four appearance tours over the past five years (three book and one movie), and each one has exhausted me. The one in January 2009 literally almost killed me (I got pneumonia, ignored it to do more appearances, and was hospitalized). So there won’t be any tour this time, no appearances, nothing like that is planned at all. You will still be able to get signed copies of the book, how to do that will be announced on January 31st.

Two big giveaways Jan 31 & Feb 7: Instead of doing a tour, I’m going to give a ton of free shit away to my fans. I’ll be doing two different big promotions, the first will be announced January 31st, and the second one will be announced the release day Feb 7th.

Press and Media requests: All press and media requests should go through my PR guy, Jeff Chassen (Jeffrey.Chassen@bwr-ny.com). Get them in now, the press copies of the book start going out next week.

I’ll make the same offer I make every release: If you run any sort of blog or site that gets decent traffic, or you have a podcast with lots of subscribers, or you write for a college newspaper, or really have any way of connecting with a lot of people through media of some sort, etc, please feel free to contact him and ask to set up an interview or taping or get a book for a review or whatever. Since I am not doing a tour, I have more time and energy to do press.

What’s in Hilarity Ensues? Hilarity Ensues is just like IHTSBIH and AFF in terms of tone and stories. I will never say any book I write is better than IHTSBIH, but I do think Hilarity Ensues is a little better than Assholes Finish First for two reasons:

1. The full complete story about the Miss Vermont court case is in there, including all the cartoons and illustrations from her old site that were in the public records of the court case–and they are fucking amazing. Seriously, wait until you see these cartoons.

2. There is a series of stories in the book called “The Sexting Stories” which–in my non-humble opinion–is the funniest thing I have ever written. I’m NOT saying its my best story in terms of events (be serious, how could I ever top the buttsex or Harlem RV stories?) but I can honestly say I have never laughed so hard as when I was writing/doing the events in those stories.

What’s in Sloppy Seconds? The same type of stories, of course. What else am I going to do, write a romance novel? But, considering that the full title is “Sloppy Seconds: The Tucker Max Leftovers” you might be able to make the obvious observation that it appears to be a collection of my stories that I didn’t think were good enough for my first three books. Why would you want to buy a book that has my leftover stories? Well, there’s a very good reason why, but thats another big announcement that won’t come until the day the book is released. It’s pretty cool, you’ll like it.

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