Character-charged sci-fi with a shot of Rock & Roll!
Thanks to Tony and the news staff at WJHG for shining a light on our efforts to raise funds for local libraries. The story was a total surprise, and much appreciated.
Give a read and a watch the video at Five award-winning authors hold fundraising event for local library (wjhg.com)
Thanks to News Herald beat writer Tony Simmons for taking time out of his schedule to pen this wonderful article promoting the Lasers and Lagers event in Panama City, and our efforts to benefit local libraries.
Read the story at Panama City Florida craft beer bar hosts science fiction writer (newsherald.com)
Huge thanks to Dave, Old School. Boston Tim and the rest of the crew on ESPN Northwest Florida for letting me take over their show for an hour to talk all things Lasers and Lagers, the 4HU, FSU sports, and NASCAR. The old radio jock in me is forever grateful.
Watch the interview on Facebook at https://fb.watch/6M3KxR0oYk/
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by the Bay County Public Library in Florida on their “Unstacked Podcast” alongside my good friend and THE STREET SURVIVORS collaborator Chris Kennedy.
Topics discussed include:
Ways to watch/listen:
Visit the Lasers and Lagers website or FB event page to learn more about our event. Otherwise, we hope you enjoy our interview with the Unstacked Podcast!
Click here to listen to the episode via the web or find ‘Blasters and Blades’ on your favorite podcasting apps today!
Brothers look out for brothers. Usually…
With the Merc Guild opening up contracts again, it’s Zuul eat Zuul to get one as there are far more companies looking for work than there are contracts to be had. So when Taylor Van Zant gets an inside line on a 30-million-credit contract for Swamp Eagle Security, he races to Karma to throw his hat in the ring.
Unfortunately, Taylor arrives to find that the other North Florida mercenary company—the River Hawk Defense Group —is also bidding, and Taylor is forced to watch as they steal the contract out from under the Eagles. Which might have been a good thing, Taylor finds out later, as the River Hawks return beaten and bloodied from it.
But only half of the River Hawks returned…the other half disappeared. And if there’s one thing Taylor stands for, it’s solidarity with his mercenary brothers, even when they may not have done him a good turn to start with. So, with only a fraction of his company available, Taylor decides to go find out what happened to the missing people. It’s what brothers do.
But what he finds will make him rue that decision and draw him firmly into the Guild Wars.
Grab your copy of THE STREET SURVIVORS on ebook or paperback today on Amazon!
Hey gang. I know several of you are planning to attend next weekend’s FantaSci convention in Durham, NC (May 21-23). So, I figured I’d drop a quick line with my panel schedule for those interested. You’ll find that as follows:
FYI, despite only having three panels I’ll be around the hotel all weekend for anyone looking to catch up with me. That includes the 4HU Dining Out event on Saturday night.
I’ll also be spending quite a bit of time at the Chris Kennedy Publishing sales table in Author’s Alley since I won’t be manning an author table of my own this year. So, if you want to catch up, get a book signed, or buy a book THEN get it signed, that’s where you’ll find me.
Cheers, y’all. Travel safe next weekend and can’t wait to see you at FantaSci!
Ian
PS – The guys and I will be interviewing FantaSci convention chair Joel Lyons on next week’s episode of The Dudes in Hyperspace Podcast to discuss all things FS 2021 (panels, guests, pandemic safety procedures, etc.). We’ll also be recording some exclusive content on-site for release during con weekend, so be sure to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. to catch that. (Click here for a full list of the platforms where you can find the show.)
Have you ever wanted to belly up to the bar with your favorite science fiction or fantasy writer and throw back a pint for a good cause? Now’s your chance!
Come join me and a team of mega-bestselling scifi authors June 29 at 5 pm CT for the first-ever Lasers and Lagers book event at the Lie’brary on Beck craft beer and wine bar in sunny Panama City, Florida!
Attendees will enjoy a wide array of activities ranging from casual meet and greets with authors to book signings and readings plus the myriad beer and wine options offered nightly by the Lie’brary staff.
Guests will also get to participate in a raffle to win signed books, memorabilia, and other prizes with all proceeds going to benefit the Friends of the Bay County Public Libraries non-profit organization!
Confirmed Authors Who are Attending:
Follow Lasers and Lagers on social media using #LasersAndLagers then be sure to “like” our Facebook Event to keep tabs on the latest news and announcements.
You can also follow the Lie’brary on Beck via Facebook and Instagram for info on drink specials, food, and other events happening around the bar.
Happy Friday, y’all! We hope to see you on the beach this summer!!!!
Sitting at my desk, closing out the day with some sports-radio analysis of National Signing Day for college football. Remember when today meant something before the advent of the early signing period? I get why things have changed. But for me, it’s just one more nail in the coffin of the college football fan experience that I was raised with as a kid in the Deep South. Throw in all the turnover nowadays via the Transfer Portal, and I fear that CFB is becoming the NFL, which is to say, it’s a sport of mercenaries. There’s no loyalty to the colors or the community — or the program, in this instance. It’s all about “get me to the League or I’m out to someplace that will.”
I threw a party for the ages in 2002 when my Buccaneers went to the Super Bowl. This year, I’ll celebrate with frozen pizza and maybe some takeout wings because I honestly couldn’t be more indifferent about the outcome. If Tampa wins, great. If they don’t, whatever. Every one of those players still makes millions to play a game, and I’ll still be up at 4:30 am the next morning to work on my next novel. That’s not sour grapes. I just know my place on the ‘sports is a business’ totem pole.
In closing, I say all that to say this: I don’t want college football to become the NFL. I want to care about the program and university that I grew up with, the one that I gave four years of my life to between undergrad and grad school. I don’t want to be indifferent, and yet I’m afraid that’s exactly where this is headed.
Only time will tell, I suppose. In the meantime, there’s always college baseball.
GO NOLES!!!
Huge thanks to the folks over at Theogony Books and Chris Kennedy Publishing for landing a coveted BookBub scifi listing last weekend for my debut novel, MAKO. Our ad and supporting social media posts went viral, with the book itself taking Amazon bestseller status in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada.
MAKO was also the #1 science fiction book on Apple, Kobo, and Barnes and Noble for much of Sunday.
And yes… we even beat Star Wars. 😉
Grab your copy of MAKO today then be sure to check out books two and three in THE MAKO SAGA series as well as the Makoverse spinoff novel, DETRON CITY VICE.
Much has been made lately about alternative social networks and their place on the net. I’m not here to litigate that topic. What I will say is that I’ve been having an absolute ball over on MeWe lately. For one, MW’s stance on user privacy and data collection is simply awesome. For another, the platform isn’t all politics, all the time like some others. It’s built on sharing common interests and growing community around topics we all love, which for me is everything from books and writing to college football and tailgate food.
Mostly, though, MeWe gives me the unicorn of all unicorns on my news feed — control. I can filter content by contact posts, group posts, page posts, or all the above. Better yet, there’s no algorithm to decide what I do or don’t see. It’s just all right there, how I want, when I want it. That’s unheard of anymore on terrestrial social media.
SIDE NOTE: I also dig the nifty little profile feature that lets you tell followers what you’re eating, drinking, listening to, reading, and watching on TV at any given time. (Yeah, I’m a nerd. We established that a LONG time ago.)
FYI, I’m not planning to leave Facebook or Twitter anytime soon so don’t freak out. I will, however, be spending more time on MeWe moving forward because it’s frankly just more fun to be over there.
You can find my profile at https://mewe.com/i/ianmalone3 if you wanna connect. Otherwise, I’ll see you around the old FB and Twitter spheres. Or, well. You know. When they’ll allow you to see my content, that is. 😉
Huge thanks to Landis Wade and his staff for having me on the show. It’s always a treat to talk the ins and outs of storytelling with a fellow writer.
NOTE: Landis was recently a guest on The Dudes in Hyperspace Podcast where he discussed his holiday-themed novel trilogy, the Christmas Courtroom, and whether or not Die Hard is an actual Christmas film (pretty sure we all know the answer to that by now). Click here to give a listen!