They’ll make a beautiful dish, take a beautiful picture, and write an amazing caption. But one person will win because that person is frickin’ awesome. You could give me a sad picture of biscuits and gravy with one nugget of sausage in it and still potentially win. One person will win in a Random.Org drawing, so you don’t necessarily have to be a great chef or anything. Tabasco spices up the omelet and coffee washes it down. It should look nummy like this: The Iron Druid Breakfast consists of a succulent cheese and chive omelet, toast with orange marmalade, and three juicy maple sausage links. I’ll post all entries into a gallery on my author Facebook page. You can use a fake secret agent name if you want. The caption should include a luxuriously written description of the food pictured, followed by your name. So here’s how you enter: Cook something tasty with sausage in it, take a digital picture, and then email it to me with a caption. If you think about it, you really can’t lose! You get tasty nom noms and you might also win bonus book-related stuff from that Kevin guy. Wanna know why this is the best contest EVAR? It’s because you get to EAT YOUR ENTRY-after you take a picture of it. Here is the stuff I’m giving away to two Sausage Fest Contest winners: 1) A Sausage Fest pint glass 2) A Sausage Fest T-shirt in your size 3) A signed Sausage Fest poster and 4) An early, signed author’s copy of TRICKED. So I should do some stuff! Or rather, give stuff away! I have 3,000 Likes on Facebook (thanks to Mindi and Pete Young!) and 1,692 birdies on Twitter. Usually I feel like it when I have reached an arbitrary number of readers going clickity-click on social media sites. Stay tuned for details-I'll announce it here! Remember more photos are available on my Facebook page in Atticus n' Oberon's album. Had such a great time at Rula Bula with my readers! Thank you all so much for coming, and thanks to the wonderful people at Rula Bula for having us! Hope to do it again for the release of TRAPPED. Hope to get back to Denver soon love it up there. I signed her Nook cover! Woohoo! In the background, an awesome shot of Oberon on the back of the tie-dyed shirt! Ready to do another Car Bomb with Ted and the crew from Denver. Mostly we want to drink rum on a ship and wear bandanas. Signing a little somethin' for Nina, who came with Jess from San Diego and Santo Santos de los Santos, or some other San City in California. You may notice that there are three people here and seven hands. After a quick tutorial, they totally rocked it. These wonderful ladies from Florida had NEVER thrown up the horns for a picture before. It may have horrified other people, however. It did little to crush my spirit, as you can see. Once I walked under it, I was promptly shat upon by an avian 'fan.' It landed on my left sleeve. Come on by and say hi to us! Look, we're friendly! Part of the patio of Rula Bula features a lovely tree canopy. They often host authors there for talks, and I'll be there this Saturday, the 19th, at 2pm. NOM NOM NOM With Lesa Holstine, the uber-awesome branch manager of the Velma Teague library in Glendale. The chips are like 'potato coins' rather than frozen french fries. The famous fish n' chips that helped Atticus decide to stay in Arizona for a while. What you should take away from this picture is that smart guys wear baseball caps. Plus.oh my god I had a hangover the next day. I love my readers! Slammin' an Irish Car Bomb with the guys. Please note the TOTALLY RAD tie-dyed THIRD EYE BOOKS & HERBS T-shirt! They gave me one too and I boggled. It was so cool to meet her-and the lady taking our picture is Kat from Canada, who came in a close second in the distance contest thingie. She's helping me a bit with research for book six, HUNTED, which finds Atticus in England. Michelle wins the award for distance-she came out from London. Give him a call if you’re in Arizona and you need someone good. He does weddings and family portraits and all kinds of events…like Sausage Fests. These pictures were all taken by Mike Ruggiero, the head honcho of Mike Ruggiero Photography. Quick business first: John Bonfiglio and Jenn from Tynga’s Reviews-you are #10 and #40, respectively, chosen by to be the winners of Shawntelle Madison’s COVETED! Please shoot me an email with your address so we can ship it out to you. I won’t put up every single picture here because there are far too many, but if you’d like to see more than what I post here, please go to my author Facebook page and look for the album. Held at Rula Bula, the Irish pub on Mill Avenue featured in the series, it was a completely spiffy gathering during which I got to hang out with some of my awesome readers. Woohoo! It’s taken me a while to get to this, but I promised pictures from the release party of TRICKED, which we called Atticus n’ Oberon’s Sausage Fest.

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