Hello!
A little while back, the amazing people at Limited Run Games asked me if I’d be interested in writing a comedy novelization of one of their games. Since I’m desperate for attention and/or work, I immediately said yes. Especially because it’s the equivalent of the “Plan 9 From Outer Space” of video games.
The result is “Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties: Definitive Edition” and you can order it soon! In fact, you can order it in just six days!
A couple things:
You don’t need to have played this game to enjoy the book! Nobody has played the game. That’s why they let me write a bonkers novelization that’s half parody, half me trying to figure out what’s even going on.
This book will be dumb. It’s just a silly goofy adaptation of a very weird game. It’s possibly the goofiest thing I’ve ever written, which gives it a special place in my heart of hearts.
Outside of the source material, the book is mainly inspired by Worlds of Power, which was a series of video game novelizations for kids in the ‘80s. They rarely had any idea what the game was about. They read like someone had described a video game to someone with a recent head injury. And they were glorious.
The book is also inspired by one of the worst writers of all time: Harry Stephen Keeler. He’s a mystery writer from the early 1900s who was clearly paid by the word and lived by the philosophy “first draft, last draft.” His books are relatively cheap to find and delightfully bad. Here is a real quote from his book “The Riddle of the Traveling Skull”:
“Either as a detective I was a good sofa-pillow crocheter, or else I was playing in the identical luck of the piccolo player when the eccentric millionaire filled up the instruments of each member of the German band with $5 gold pieces.”
It’s beautiful stuff.
I’ll annoy those of you who read this thing again and again about this silly project, but I wanted to let you know it’s going to be available soon. That’s all! Thank you! Bye bye! Night time!
I see you wrote a book for me specifically. 🙏
Yesssssss!!!