Hey gang, Today is the first official day of the blog tour! Unlike the kickoff day, today I’ll have a guest post available on Angela Addam’s website. The post is about plotting and starts like this: My feelings on Plotting are best described thusly: screw that asshole. Sorry to be so blunt, but we just don’t get along, […]
Welcome to the kick off of the Blog Tour to the End of the World! I’m posting this a little early because I’ve been hard at work all day putting this together, and frankly, I couldn’t wait to get started! Below you’ll find an exclusive video introduction to the blog tour, which will explain how to enter
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This time of year always has me thinking about the coming fall. I thought I’d try something new today and repost a blog from this time last year. You might say, “Oh Tony, you’re just being lazy,” and you might be right. But as I walked my dog last night and heard the insects in
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Greetings and salutations, lovely peoples of the interweb. How goes it? I do hope you replied “swimmingly,” as that’s today’s secret word! Wait…not so secret anymore, is it. I’ve gone and spoiled everything again. Now, Tony, don’t get so down on yourself. It could have happened to anybody. Chin up, big guy. Turn that frown
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No news may be good news, but it’s also no blog posts. There is very little happening here at Rapino headquarters these days. I just started teaching my summer class, and I was recently offered a new class that I will be building from the ground up with a fellow professor, so time is short
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Some of you may have noticed that at the very last minute I posted on Facebook (and other internet outlets) that I would be attending the Pocono Raceway Festival to sell and sign Soundtrack to the End of the World. I go every year to help my dad sell tie dye shirts at his booth,
Hello my lovelies. Today I have a special treat for you in the guise of a guest post entitled Create Activity. This post is all about creativity, having shotguns stuck in your mouth, and smashing in the teeth of self-doubt. Oh yes. It will surely be a bloody battle, but you will rein supreme! It
I received my contributor copies of the paperback version of Soundtrack to the End of the World! As you might expect, I am very excited. So excited that I made a new video to show off the novel. So excited, that I’m doing a new giveaway! Hell, even if you already have it, enter anyway.
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You should know by now, my blog titles are pure nonsense. I mean, unless you consider my coffee-drinking llama rocking out to fresh jams irrelevant. So, hey. Listen. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. Transition from random Wizard of Oz reference to writing news. I’ve gotten word from he/she/it that the paperback
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Please help me congratulate Emily Anderson, the winner of the SOUNDTRACK TO THE END OF THE WORLD Giveaway! We had a huge turnout and collected a total of 480 entries. This most definitely marks the best turnout I’ve ever had for a contest. Thank you all so much for playing along. But if you didn’t