Pictorial for Invasive Species game

And now here's a pictorial of my game Invasive Speicies: The Game: http://boardgamegeek.com/article/13915471#13915471

Pictorial guide for Nine Circles of Hell

I put together a pictorial overview of my "Hell" game. Take a look here:
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1064598/pictorial-overview-of-hell

Book Out!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand ... the book is out! Check out Invasive Species on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Invasive-Species-Mike-Mayer-ebook/dp/B00FZ6ZMJS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383109913&sr=8-1&keywords=mike+mayer+invasive

Card from the IS game

A card from the full-color version of my Invasive Species game. The text comes straight from the novel: http://www.amazon.com/Invasive-Species-Mike-Mayer-ebook/dp/B00FZ6ZMJS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383109913&sr=8-1&keywords=mike+mayer+invasive  and the colors relate as well:  Red for shed blood, of course. Green features heavily in the eyes of the monsters. And the oily yellow background relates to the invasive slime mold that started it all.

Nine Circles of Hell game

Cover pic for new game coming up:

Spin-off game for Invasive Species

Here's where you can find a free print & play spin-off game of my novel Invasive Species, called, strangely enough, Invasive Species: the Game: Invasive Secies: the Game

The description goes something like this:

Auuuuuuuugh! Your publisher is breathing down your neck, so now it's a late-night, caffeine-fueled, rattling-keyboard-pounding race to get the first chapter of your thriller novel Invasive Species finished before he decides to tear up your lucrative contract. Through blind inspiration (drawing cards) and expert cut-and-paste editing (arranging cards on your board), you strive to complete your chapter before it's too late. In the card game Invasive Species, players create a story by using 36 cards that have numbered text showing where each card should go in the story. Each turn, a player draws a card and decides whether he wants to keep it or give it to his opponent. He places any kept cards on his personal board, with the goal of creating an ascending numeral sequence. When the deck runs out, players take turns sliding misplaced cards into their correct positions. The first player to correctly "write" his story wins. Invasive Species is based on the novel of the same name by Mike Mayer.

Invasive Species novel

Cover of my upcoming book

The description I'm considering:

Something's wrong with Maggie's swamp. A volatile life form has invaded the ecosystem and compels everything it touches to adopt its bizarre life cycle. The cells of animals, plants, and even people rupture their bonds and unite with other creatures to give birth to conjoined monsters. These newly-made chimeras consume all they catch, but their relentless appetite is only a prelude to the coming horror. The infecting life cycle demands an even greater transformation, and Maggie fights against it. Life as we knows it hangs in the balance.

Invasive Species an electrifying tale of nature's blind and uncaring need to evolve regardless of what any mere human might have to say about it.   

And some excerpts: 

. . . as water trickled around these strange tumors she realized the heads did not belong to separate animals. These heads belonged to the same body. . . .

. . . "When a foreign organism is released into a new environment, strange and unpredictable things can happen." . . .

. . . Oh God, it was happening again. He felt his cells breaking apart and joining with the cells of the beast that was folded around him. There was no resisting it. New memories flooded in. New thoughts. New desires. . . .

. . . "We may be part of its plan," Maggie said, "but only in the sense a sick person might be part of a bacteria's plan."  

. . . The end of the world was nigh, but it wasn't an end prophesied by Revolutions or predicted by anti-nuclear war activists or climate change doomsayers or soft-spoken astronomers searching the heavens for wayward meteors. This end was planned by billions of years of natural selection. Maggie had a plan as well. . . .

INVASIVE SPECIES by MIKE MAYER​

COMING SOON at AMAZON.