{"id":3558,"date":"2010-09-16T18:24:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T18:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?page_id=3558"},"modified":"2010-09-21T21:31:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T21:31:49","slug":"unconventional","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?page_id=3558","title":{"rendered":"Unconventional"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Unconventional\" Buy the Paperback Edition, $10<\/a>
\nBuy the eBook Edition (PDF), $6<\/a>
\nBuy for Kindle, $6<\/a>
\nBuy for any mobile device, $6<\/a>
\nAlso available in Apple’s iBooks store!
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By Matt Springer<\/em><\/p>\n

A tale of sex, booze and geeks at Chicago’s fictional UnCon, Unconventional<\/em> follows three friends as they love, laugh, and dare I say learn in a loving-yet-irreverent look at fans and fandom (oh, and one of them gets laid. Twice). From founding Alert Nerd Matt Springer, Unconventional<\/em> is the first book (of millions!) from AN Press.<\/p>\n

What people are saying about Unconventional<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“See, now this is what <\/span>Fanboys wanted to be…The debut novel (or novella, as somewhat grumpily conceded in the Author\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Note) from Alert Nerd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Matt Springer, <\/span>Unconventional is, according to the front cover\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s helpful summary, ‘a tale of sex, booze, and geeks’\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6pretty much in that order. And as unappealing as a book filled with drunk, naked nerds might seem, Springer makes it work, thanks to his effortlessly conversational writing and a plot that actually has less to do with <\/span>Star Wars and <\/span>Lord of the Rings than it lets on…Matt Springer is an author who deserves to be read.”
\n—<\/span><\/em>Jeff Giles, Popdose<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This story must have been almost as fun to write as it is to read. Several of the extreme characters are clearly attempts by Springer to cast off his own inner super villains…Then again, Springer may not have been entirely successful in his attempts to cast out the inner geek: He dedicates the book to his fianc\u00c3\u00a9, promising her that they will \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclive long and prosper!\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Oy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/div>\n
Jeremy Lott, The American Spectator<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/em>“This novella has its heart in the right place. Since I am a major fan of bromance, dude-centric stories, I loved it. If Alert Nerd keeps publishing novels like that, I predict I will read every single one of them.”
\n—Ana, The Book Smugglers <\/a><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This story must have been almost as fun to write as it is to read. Several of the extreme characters are clearly attempts by Springer to cast off his own inner super villains…Then again, Springer may not have been entirely successful in his attempts to cast out the inner geek: He dedicates the book to his fianc\u00c3\u00a9, promising her that they will \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclive long and prosper!\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Oy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n—Jeremy Lott, The American Spectator<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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