I Am Terrible at Advertising (So I’m Giving Away a Book)

Let me start with the honest part.

I am absolutely terrible at advertising.

I learned how to build a website.
I learned how to write books.
I learned how to use a horrifying number of apps.
I learned how to design RPG systems, create monsters, format manuscripts, and publish them.

I am also a nurse, a mom, a dog mom, and a wife.

But advertising?

Advertising is its own cursed dungeon.

And I am currently level 1.

So instead of pretending I know what I’m doing, I decided to try the ancient and powerful marketing strategy known as:

“Please take my book.”

Which is why I am running a Houses & Humans giveaway.

One person will win a copy of The Brain Monster Codex, a darkly funny RPG-style survival manual for dealing with the chaos of adulthood and the even bigger chaos inside your own brain.

Wait… What Is Houses & Humans?

Houses & Humans is a strange little world I built where:

• Adult life is a campaign

• Your brain is sometimes the final boss

• Laundry is a monster encounter

• Doing dishes earns experience points

• And coping skills are disguised as spells

The books mix:

• dark humor

• fantasy RPG mechanics

• real coping strategies

• and the deeply suspicious experience known as being a human adult

It’s basically CBT disguised as a monster manual.

Because sometimes laughing at the dungeon makes it easier to survive it.

Why the Giveaway?

Because I want people to find this weird world.

And also because Google apparently likes words like:

• fantasy RPG books

• dark humor books

• mental health humor

• neurodivergent humor

• self-help for people who hate self-help

• fantasy mental health books

• adulting survival guide

So here they are.

Look at me doing SEO magic.

Join the Houses & Humans Cult

Okay technically it is not a cult.

It is more of a loosely organized group of adventurers trying to survive modern life.

But if you join the mailing list you will get:

• weird monster lore

• new quests

• darkly funny coping tricks

• updates on new books and campaigns

• occasional evidence that the Brain Monster is lying again

Which honestly feels very cult-adjacent, but in a friendly way.

Enter the Giveaway

If you would like a chance to win a copy of The Brain Monster Codex, you can enter here:

HousesAndHumansRPG.com

The giveaway ends soon.

Because I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing and at some point I will panic and launch the next chaotic idea.

Final Words From the Dungeon

If your brain sometimes acts like a dramatic narrator of doom…

If adulthood feels suspiciously like a campaign you did not agree to…

If you have ever thought
"I should get experience points for surviving today"…

You might be one of us.

Welcome to the dungeon.