The Holiday Season is Finally Here! Time To Buy My Books For All of Your Loved Ones, And Yourself!

As an independent author/publisher, as well as the world’s most prolific author of books about “Weird Al” Yankovic (beginning with the 2012 coffee table book Weird Al: The Book, which, weirdly enough, is credited to me and Al Yankovic), there are only really two times when I make money from books. The first is when the book first comes out and excitement and anticipation for it are at a fever pitch. That is to say, some people might be vaguely aware that I’ve released a new book. Then there is the holiday season when pretty much EVERYONE is obligated to buy people presents. CHRISTMAS presents. I’m not “down” with the War on Christmas. Too many people have died in that endless struggle.

You know what makes for GREAT presents? BOOKS! More specifically, MY Books. I specifically designed the extended versions of The Weird A-Coloring to Al, the coloring book Felipe Sobreiro and myself created and The Weird Accordion to Al, my massive guide to Al’s life’ work, to be holiday presents.

Last year I revised The Weird Accordion to Al so that it included a voluminous chapter on the wonder that is Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. You can’t have a definitive, exhaustive look at a man and his music without that instant cult classic.

I cheekily subtitled this latest version The Weird Accordion to Al: Cynical Movie Cash-In Extended Edition in honor of Al’s triumphant return to the world of movies. It’s now 516 pages and includes commentary on Al’s studio albums (including Peter & the Wolf and Medium Rarities) as well as UHF, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, The Compleat Al and every episode of The Weird Al Show as well as Al’s stint as the bandleader/sidekick on the final season of Comedy!Bang!Bang!

It’s Hours of wholesome family fun!

That’s a lot but it’s not all. The book was also fact-checked and copy-edited by “Weird Al” Yankovic himself. Oh, and it features DOZENS of hilarious and creative illustrations by Felipe Sobreiro, who Al personally chose to contribute to The Illustrated Al on the basis of his work with me.

Al also wrote the introduction. What a guy!

I was so overjoyed with Felipe’s illustrations that I thought they merited a book of their own. That was the catalyst for The Weird A-Coloring to Al, a 120 page coloring book covering every stage of Al’s career, including Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

The most recent iteration of this coloring book is called The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Sincere Movie Cash-In Extended Edition. You can buy three signed copies for just twenty dollars, shipping and handling and postage and they come with a free pack of colored pencils.

I’ll make you such a deal! What an amazing, inexpensive Secret Santa/White Elephant gift. Your coworkers will marvel at your wonderful weirdness!

But wait, there’s more!

Felipe and myself also created a color, hardcover version of The Weird A-Coloring to Al called The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Colored-In Special Edition that’s signed and limited to just 270 copies. With each purchase you get one of ten free cards designed by Felipe and signed by himself and myself and limited to 27.

We’re down to our last thirty copies so get em while you can!

I know that a lot of folks are going to buy Weird: The Al Yankovic Story from Shout! Factory this Christmas and The Weird A-Coloring: Cynical Movie Cash-In Edition and The Weird Accordion to Al: Sincere Movie Cash-In Edition were both designed specifically to crassly exploit Al’s latest masterpiece.

Be a Santa that goes crazy—with generosity!—by buying my “Weird Al” Yankovic themed books directly from me.

If you and your loved ones are inexplicably not “Weird Al” Yankovic fans but enjoy my work I’ve got PLENTY of other books for you to buy for your friends and family for Christmas.

If they enjoy Phish or Insane Clown Posse why not get them a signed copy of my 2013 book You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me? It got four stars in Rolling Stone, was named one of their 20 best music books of 2013 and changed the way people see Juggalos.

Are shopping for someone who is a huge Uwe Boll fan but already has all of his classic movies? Then why not buy them Postal, the book that Brock Wilbur and myself wrote about the notorious video game series and film?

Last but not least please consider buying a copy of my most recent book, The Joy of Trash: Flaming Garbage Fire Extended Edition. We still have some “Joy of Positivity: Can’t Stop Won’t Stop” hardcovers that come with a hand-written, unique recommendation in every book PLUS a free copy of The Weird A-Coloring to Al.

Please do consider buying my books. At the risk of being immodest, they’re quite good and I would love, love, love it if loyal readers of this site bought copies of The Joy of Trash for people they love so that they too, god willing, will also become loyal readers and commenters to this site.

That would be great. Share the love. Share the trash. Around here they’re kind of the same thing.

You can buy everything you need for the holidays, signed and cheap, and with cool extra random stuff, over at https://www.nathanrabin.com/shop