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Now Available: The Movie Murder Mystery Party Game Book!

The Movie Murder Mystery Party

I’m excited to announcement the release of my party game book, The Movie Murder Mystery Party. The book is available as a paperback through CreateSpace and Amazon with the digital ebook versions to be released soon. I’m really happy about this release as it’s my first product that people can actually buy.


Liven up your night with murder!

In this murder mystery game guests take the roles of various cast and crew members celebrating the completion of filming of their movie when the director suddenly dies at the party. However, the paranoid Director hid magical clues revealing hints as to who committed the crime. The scavenger hunt, couples’ rules, and the randomzation for the murderer bring unique features to the standard murder mystery game.

Also included is All the Inheritance, a murdering mystery game where anyone can be the killer as each heir hopes to kill the host – while avoiding being knocked off themselves – to collect the most money. Use luck, memory, backstabbing, and clever deductions to win all the inheritance you can and uncover who is really your friend.

But, wait! There’s more! Lastly there are rules for an indoor capture the flag style game with murder!

Enjoy three different party games in one book.

Lights, Camera, Winning!


After not hearing anything on the contest for months, today at work I received a phone call informing me that I’ve won! The date and the logistics of when I’ll be going to Dallas, Texas to be in their commercial have yet to be worked out, but they will call me again when it’s all settled.

Uncovering Oklahoma’s Date Guide Book 3.0

Today I released the Third Edition of Uncovering Oklahoma’s Date Guide! The biggest change with this edition is that the book expands further away from the Oklahoma City area and includes places like Tulsa, Medicine Park, and Pauls Valley. No matter what type of date you want to go out on, Uncovering Oklahoma’s Date Guide has it. Here’s a detailed list of what’s new:

  • Updated cover design with logo, featuring the SkyDance Bridge in Oklahoma City, with thanks to Jeffrey Burleson and Susan Riley
  • New Section: Tulsa with the Center of the Universe, Queenies, Gypsy Coffee House, First Friday Art Crawl, and the Oklahoma Aquarium
  • New Section: Elsewhere (for places that don’t fit into one of the larger cities) with Medicine Park, Wichita Mountains, Magnetic Hill, Turner Falls, The Toy and Action Figure Museum, and Bedré Chocolate Factory
  • New in the Oklahoma City section is Paseo District, t an urban teahouse, Castle Falls, and Kaiser’s
  • Updated video links for OKC Improv to showcase them at their new home
  • New in the Norman Section is LOCAL, Coriander Café, Syrup, and the Norman Wine Trail with Redbud Ridge, Canadian River, Native Spirits, and Redland Juice Company
  • No businesses were removed in this edition!
  • Updated and replaced pictures, quotes, links, etc. throughout the book

I hope you enjoy this new edition! I have amazing plans for the fourth edition to be released in January, including more places in Tulsa. I only managed to make one trip to Tulsa for this book. I have time scheduled to personally visit the First Friday Art Crawl in the Brady Arts District.

I’m just going to share this information on my personal blog: the fourth edition will be dramatically different as I will include a printed version. I’ve been doing researching into making this completely feasible. I already have a new page making program to produce it. I’ve decided to format the book in the standard 11×8 magazine size. I’m really exciting about 4.0.

FINAL CHECK-IN

The mock trailer for the action-spy movie with a library theme, FINAL CHECK-IN, is ready to be checked-out! Watch it above or here on YouTube.

Even though it was a short movie, we have the following blooper reel:



Tonight we held the watch party for the movie and it’s bloopers. Lessa and I were still doing some last minute editing when people started to arrive at six, forcing guests to make conversations with each other. We were only behind about an hour so everyone took turns talking about their day/week in a dramatic story-telling fashion while enjoying pizza. Yum. We also watched some of the raw footage that didn’t make the final cut and afterwards went out for gelato. More yum.

From all of us involved in making this movie, we hope you enjoy it!

Final Check-In: Update #4


Yesterday, Lessa and I edited the librarian-action-spy-style mock movie trailer, Final Check-In. Editing went extremely well. There’s one particular moment I want to share: About half way through, Lessa wanted to watch the whole video to get a feel for it. Before doing that, I quickly tossed in some background music for ambience. The song synced up beautifully. We ended up editing the rest of the video to the song, syncing up scenes with its beats and changes. There are lots of cool moments in the movie and overall it’s very smooth. We didn’t use all of the footage, but that happens. Better to have too much than not enough.

We’re going to do one last touch-up edit next week immediately followed by the watch party with the YouTube video, including blooper reel, being posted on Monday.

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