Leo orders 17 monkeys from the back of a comic book…and then realizes his roommate is going to be PISSED when she gets home. So he rents them out for parties to show they can earn their keep.
What could possibly go wrong in this short novel by Lynsey G, with cover art and illustrations by Jayel Draco?
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Introducing Cheez-Noms (Stickers)
over 1 year ago
– Mon, May 08, 2023 at 06:42:15 PM
Hello there, MonkeyMaids fam!
It's a whole new week, and we're starting it off at 114% funded! We're less than $150 away from our first stretch goal…bookmarks with all paperbacks!
It feels like a great day to introduce you to…
Cheez-Noms™
MonkeyMaids opens on an outright melee taking place in the kitchen. The monkeys have gone berserk—hooting, hollering, gibbering, leaps from the cabinets and ceiling fan.
The source of the ruckus?
A few bags of Cheez-Noms™ that Leo brought home from a coffee run. The evidence of the mayhem can be easily spied in the "Cheezy Mayhem" cover art Jayel Draco created for the book.
Leo narrates:
I’d brought the monkeys some Cheez-Noms™ about an hour ago, buying them on a whim when I’d run out to TarMucks and the corner store earlier. But three bags had only whetted the dairy fiends’ appetites, and fights had broken out as the supply dwindled.
The male spider monkey had made off with his weirdly long arms full of tasty treats, and the tension in the room had exploded into mayhem that had yet to subside. There were only crumbs left scattered around the kitchen, but animosity over the cheesy morsels was still sparking up into violence all around me.
Leo learns his lesson and swears the monkeys off of dairy products entirely, but the damage is already done.
No primate—monkey, ape, or human—can resist the draw of these delicious dairy treats. Crispy, crunchy, and delectable cheez-y, Cheez-Noms™ would bring out the monkey in anybody!
That's why artist Jayel Draco has created a high-quality 3" holographic sticker of an open bag of everybody's favorite treat!
The stickers are available as add-ons to physical-level backers here in Kickstarter, and they'll be available to everybody in BackerKit after the campaign ends!
The Winchester-Nabu Detective Agency: The Case of the Roughed-Up Rodent is a 22-page comic by writer Amber Love, artist Margaret Blane and letterer and designerHaley Rose-Lyon.
In this stand alone one-shot, private detectives Oliver Winchester and Guster Nabu investigate an attack on Shrewise Peete, a local critter.
The humans, Amber and Joe, take Ollie and Gus out to the neighborhood where they can talk to informants and friends to gather information about this crime.
WE DID IT!!! Now…Stretch Goals!
over 1 year ago
– Sat, May 06, 2023 at 09:11:15 AM
This is bananas!
WE DID IT!
Within 72 hour of our launch, your amazing support has launched us PAST our funding goal!
Look at this delicious screenshot from our dashboard!
Live AMA Unlocked!
This beautiful spread of numbers shows that not only are we 107% funded…which means that we're going to schedule a live AMA with Lynsey and Jayel for all our backers!
Stay tuned for details on when and where to ask us all your burning monkey questions!
Stretch Goal Incoming!
It also show sthat we're also just over $200 from our first stretchgoal!
When we hit $1,500, we'll unlock a limited-edition bookmark to be included with all paperbacks!
Let's keep the momentum going so we can sail past bookmarks and move on to our next stretch goal!
Project We Love!
We also unlocked an amazing achievement…
We've been awarded the coveted "Project We Love" tag by Kickstarter! Now we can proudly display the badge!
After narrowly defeating the horde of feral vampires, werewolves, and armed vampire knights led by Vampiress Ann Marie, Night Wolf, now donning Silver Mane’s armor, and Snow Paw decide it is time to take the fight to the Dark Covenant. While on their journey, Snow Paw tells Night Wolf more about their werewolf culture. Meanwhile, Jennifer Conway has finally had enough of Lord Malice’s attempts at manipulating her feelings, forcing him to reveal his vampiric origins.
🐒 + 🧑 = ☠️
over 1 year ago
– Thu, May 04, 2023 at 01:05:21 PM
Hey there, monkey-mad friends!
We just passed the $1.1K mark! We're less than $100 from our funding goal, and more than 2/3 of the way to our first stretch goal of bookmarks with every paperback book!
You're AMAZING! Thank you so much for your support!
Chat GPT Takes on MonkeyMaids
This morning I finally took the plunge and started poking around at ChatGPT. I'm extremely suspicious of AI generally, but it occurred to me that it would be very interesting to get its take on MonkeyMaids.
So I asked it: "Tell me what is likely to happen if you put 17 untrained monkeys into a small apartment with two humans who do not know how to care for them."
And this is the answer it gave me:
Honestly, I'm pretty impressed that ChatGPT immediately told me that the premise for this story is unethical and dangerous. It even named our chat "Monkeys and Humans - Danger." (Or 🐒 + 🧑 = ☠️)
The dire nature of this prediction…words like "aggressive behavior," "property damage," "injury," and "recipe for disaster"…also highlight just how absurd this story is.
That is to say…I know that 17 monkeys in a 2-bedroom apartment is a "recipe for disaster." But let's pretend it really happened for Leo and Liz…and let's run with it!
Let's keep this ridiculous train rolling, folks! Next stop…monkeybusiness.
Our series delights readers with an interest in mythology, unsolved mysteries, thrilling action, history, and the occasional small, personal story. These tales are woven together to tell one epic adventure.
This next adventure takes place over 24 pages, beginning with Tart Acid tracking a serial killer down the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. But if this was an ordinary evil, Tart wouldn't be on the case…
