http://www.cafepress.com/monster_hunters 

Check it out. We have added a bunch of new stuff, including MCB gear (W.W.A.F.D?), Enchanted Forest Trailer Park, Bubba Shackleford’s Professional Monster Killers, and more.

 

Also, if you’ve ordered patches from me recently, I went to fill all those orders and discovered that I had a lot fewer patches than I thought I did. So there will be a delay for another week or two while I wait for the new ones to arrive.

We will be giving out these hats:

At every event and panel I’m on, I will have hats with me. All you have to do is come up and ask to get one. Or from 2-3:30 on Friday go to the DeepSouthCon 50 Table in the Sheraton Hotel among the fan tables in the exhibit area. (look for the people wearing the hat above).

And then be a part of the first ever, Monster Hunter Nation Flash Mob! Details will be distributed with each hat. (but let us just say that you should be around the Marriott lobby at 1:30 on Saturday)

And here is the nifty flyer about me.

Correia half page DragonCon[1]

http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/ah-correia-larry.php 

Knowing that Mike would be in Afghanistan during the release of Dead Six made having copies autographed by both of us really hard. But we thought ahead. Using the awesome Kurt Miller D6 logo artwork as the background, we both signed a few hundred Dead Six bookplates. So if you want a copy of D6 autographed by both of us, this is really about the only way that is going to happen before Mike comes home. (unless you are planning on taking a trip to beautiful southern Afghanistan sometime soon).  🙂

Also, I did 300 tip in sheets for hard covers of Spellbound through Uncle Hugos. A tip in sheet is when I actually signed a page, before it was bound into the book! So when you open to the title page, my signature was there before the printing. (which I still think is totally awesome). So, even though Spellbound won’t ship until October, if you want to preorder one of the limited signed tip-in hard covers, this is it.

And tell your friends! I really want to get a non-MH book onto a bestseller list. Preorders are a great way to accomplish that.

The first copies of Dead Six! Yay!

It is that time again! Two years ago I held a create your own Monster Hunter International team patch contest, and the winning teams got official cameos in Monster Hunter Vendetta, and became official parts of the MH universe.

The fan winner from last time was Utah County, and the author’s pick was the Atomic Nerds.

Check out the awesomeness from the first Monster Hunter International Patch Contest here:  https://monsterhunternation.com/2009/07/15/monster-hunter-international-patch-contest/

I didn’t do one last year, because if you’ve read Monster Hunter Alpha, then you know that it was more limited in scope, and there weren’t any other teams introduced. However, right now I’m working on Monster Hunter Legion, where once again there will be many MHI teams present, but there will also be rival companies from around the world.

The CONTEST:  Create your own MHI or rival Monster Hunting company patch, using whatever your creative abilities are, and then send it to me at monsterhunter45@hotmail.com .  The contest will run for the entire month of September.

The RULES: Unlike last time, the patch doesn’t have to be in subdued colors (since most of you ignored that anyway). If it is an MHI team, then it needs to say MHI or Monster Hunter International somewhere on it and 1895 for the founding year.  These do not need to be in English if you are taking it out of the country. 

If your unit is non-MHI, then feel free to do whatever you want.  MHL opens at an international conference of monster hunting professionals, and there are representatives from all over the world, governmental or private. Have fun with it.

I don’t care if you do it with fancy computer programs or color it in crayon, but for me to post it, it will need to be a Jpeg.

Make sure you include what town/region your patch represents in the title, because that’s what they will be known as in the voting.

Once the contest is over, we will be holding a vote here on Monster Hunter Nation to find the fan favorite. The winner (s)* will appear in Monster Hunter Legion. There will be as many winners as I personally feel like.

*since I’m doing this for fun, and I’m the author, I can basically do whatever I want. So if ya’ll pick something horrible, that there is simply no way I can fit it into the book, I retain veto power. But I trust you guys… Mostly…  Usually… If for example, you put your team in a region that already has an established team, then I may need to tweak your location.

Entries are due the last day of September.

The PRIZE:  The winner’s team will get a mention in MHL, and I will send you an autographed copy of MHL when it comes out.  

Last time I made up a batch of Utah County patches. I made way too many of them, and ended up giving most away at book signings, so I can’t promise that I will manufacture the winning patch this time.

However,  if you are particularly proud of your patch, and want to make one for yourself, I’ll gladly point you toward my friend Hopie, who specializes in doing small runs of custom patches. She’s done a few for other members of the Monster Hunter Nation that look awesome.  Her contact info is below.

Crooked Stitch Creations, Custom Embroidery
Hopie Lopez-Boyett, Head Thread Pusher
You can find my fan page on Facebook listed as Crooked Stitch Creations
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crooked-Stitch-Creations/141978565824728>
or go directly to my ETSY shop <http://www.etsy.com/shop/DancingBearUS> .
Email any questions to DancingBearUS@gmail.com

If you do have Hopie make a patch for you, I want pictures!

I will post the entries here into this blog post as often as possible.

And please, spread the word! Tell your friends, post this to your blog, bathroom graffiti, whatever. We had around 50 entries last time, and that was with only one book out.  I want this to be an awesome patch contest.

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