- Print and e-ARC distribution to trade and consumer media, both
traditional and online
- Social media marketing on Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads
giveaways
- Outreach to fan-oriented sites, publications, and media
- Outreach to general fiction sites for interviews, including Shelf
Awareness, LibraryThing, Book Reporter, and BookPage
Outreach to the Entertainment/Comedy community.
Mike MacDonald and Jilly Gagnon have been writing comedy together for many years. Mike has worked for The Onion, founded his own Canadian satirical site, The Smew, and has been a journalist in Toronto and internationally. Additionally, he has written and produced sketch comedy television shows with one of the largest networks in Canada. Jilly Gagnon is a comedy writer, young adult novelist, and essayist. In the past her work has appeared in Newsweek, Elle, Vanity Fair, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others. Since graduating from Harvard in 2006, she has been living in the Boston area, but she’ll always be a Minnesotan at heart.
For Choose Your Own Misery: The Office
"[F]or former Choose Your Own Adventure fans and devotees of dark,
dark humor."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“[Choose Your Own Misery] joins Dilbert, The Office, and Office
Space in the canon of storytelling about a circle of Hell so
sinister—and so insidious—that even Dante wasn't able to imagine
it.” —HUFFINGTON POST
“In their rip-roaringly funny book, Choose Your Own Misery: The
Office Adventure, the two Onion alums make a dark and decidedly
adult play on beloved childhood "choose your own adventure"
novels…[Choose Your Own Misery] may be the funniest book released
this year.”—NEWSWEEK
“Choose Your Own Misery: The Office Adventure is a bittersweet,
brutal, and frequently hilarious twist on the childhood
classics.”—NERDIST.COM
“Hell, the only reason for going to work is to goof-off reading
Jilly Gagnon's and Mike MacDonald's book, CHOOSE YOUR OWN MISERY:
The Office Adventure!”—E. Jean Carroll, former writer for SNL
“Choose Your Own Misery: The Office Adventure [is] the most
addictive, clever, and honestly hilarious decision tree you've ever
read.”—Zack Bornstein, segment director at Jimmy Kimmel Live
"Sorry, I've been spending every waking hour lost in your maddening
madcap narrative labyrinth. I'll try to send a blurb for the book
by the deadline!"—Jamie Brew, Associate Editor at Clickhole
"It’s time for you to choose your own miserable adventure, just
like you do every day of your miserable life, but now in hilarious
book form!”— Nate Dern, Head Writer for Funny or Die
"Oh, how I laughed at this droll little book. Then, slowly but
irreversibly, it filled me up with dread."—Jesse Andrews, author of
the New York Times bestselling ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL
For Choose Your Own Misery: The Holidays
"I played this book thirty times and the happiest ending I got was
one where I got to eat turkey with a badly burned hand. Seems about
right. Hilarious every time."—Ryan North, New York Times
bestselling author of Romeo And/Or Juliet
"Tired of making decisions? Let me make it real easy for you.
Choose to stay home at your next family holiday and, instead, read
this book. You'll be laughing."—Mike Sacks, New York Times
bestselling author of Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with
Today's Top Comedy Writers
"Bah! Humbug! An ideal choice for holiday haters and readers who
enjoy David Sedaris’s hysterically funny take, Holidays on
Ice."—Library Journal
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