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The start of the Stays Crunchy in Milk FAQ

May 15, 2009 stays crunchy in milk 2 comments

What is Stays Crunchy in Milk?
It’s a novel written by Adam P. Knave and published by Creative Guy Publishing in August 2009.

What genre is it?
It isn’t, not really. I mean sure there are bits of fantasy in there I suppose, and action and adventure and humor … the thing is everyone who has read it has failed at nailing a genre to it. So we go with “Literature” and leave it at that. Which makes me feel odd, but that’s a different question.

What’s it about?
Three friends go looking for their missing fourth friend. At it’s core that is the plot. Three people go looking for a fourth. It’s also about everything from growing up to friendship to … oh hell I’ll let the editor (Lauren) answer this: It’s… it’s like The Wizard of Oz for vaguely jaded 20- to 30-somethings who’ve watched too many Saturday morning cartoons. It’s about friendship and self-discovery and love and failure and hope and how completely ridiculous 98% of the stuff we loved in the 1980s was, including but not limited to cartoon cereal mascots and My Little Ponies.

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Stays Crunchy in Milk – PRE-ORDER IS OPEN NOW.

May 13, 2009 awesome!, books, contest, stays crunchy in milk, writing No comments

Welcome to fun. I am so enormously pleased and excited to announce that pre-orders for my first full-length novel, Stays Crunchy in Milk are now open. This is the big one, for me. I have never been as proud of a work that I have written as I am of this book. Which is not to say that I don’t love Crazy Little Things and Strange Angel. I love them both and wish you would consider buying more of them. No, Stays Crunchy in Milk is just something else.

First of all – it isn’t horror. At all. It is … if you like the way I write here on this blog, the pop culture entries, bits of my life, all of that stuff? This is the book for you. It is a story with action, adventure, humor … all the good stuff stories should have. It was a joy to write, and I tell you honestly having had to reread it last week for more proofing, it is still a joy to read, even though I wrote it.

After the jump I am going to reveal, for the first time anywhere, the cover and I am going to talk way more about the book and what it means and where it came from and what it is. I will also tell you about the contest for pre-orders, the special gifts, the special editions of the book itself and I will also let you pre-order the book right from this post itself. So, if you have ever enjoyed anything I’ve written, anywhere, I ask that you come along for this ride.

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In milk?

April 27, 2009 books, stays crunchy in milk No comments

(We’re still waiting for Strange Angel to come out – but I have another book coming out soon (August) and I want to talk about it for a minute.)

Many of you think of my fiction as horror and fine, sometimes it can be. And I know not all of you like horror. Hell, I don’t always like it myself. A few summers ago I cast around thinking about what I wanted to do, prose-wise. I was at a bit of a dead end. I needed to try a novel.

But what?

And it hit me, and I’ll go into exactly how it came to be another time, but I wanted to play with my childhood. I write here all the time about stuff from my childhood. Turbo Teen, just last week, all the Jem jokes and … well … everything.

So I made a novel out of it. No, seriously. No horror, at all. Nothing of the sort. It’s more like exactly what you read here – except fiction. It’s a travel novel. It’s a quest. It’s a tale of three friends and their search for their missing friend. It’s a parable, a fairy-tale for 30yr olds.

It’s called Stays Crunchy in Milk.

And for the first time I am going to unveil the book’s cover blurb:
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They were four: Wereberry the strawberry werewolf, Choco-Ra the chocolate mummy, the Creature From the Fruit Lagoon (his friends call him “T.C.”), and Cherrygeist the… well, she was a ghost. At least, until she wasn’t. One day, she wasn’t there at all. And then they were three.

Three friends who have sworn to search for her to the ends of the world and beyond – to find and save her.

Through familiar lands to places startling and unknown – across looming castles, endless battlefields and simple brick roads – these three friends will hunt and search and scour every inch. Along the way they’ll have to rely on a whole lot of luck and a little bit of charm, but mostly each other.

A fairy tale for the super-sugar generation, STAYS CRUNCHY IN MILK is road novel packed with 100% of your recommended daily allowance of essential action and adventure. And it’s a delicious part of a nutritious breakfast.
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Over the next weeks and months you will see the cover, the interior art plates (yes there are interior plates), and I will talk far more about what this book is and what it means to me. We’ll open pre-orders and announce contests and special events. This is going to be big.

But it can’t be big without you. Honestly. So I hope you’ll join me on this ride. I promise that if you like the essays I write here you will like this book. So come along.

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