Ian J. Malone

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Quick Project Update

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Hey ya’ll, just wanted to pop by for a quick update on where I stand with my current slate of projects.

Colonies Lost

Colonies has wrapped the content edit phase and is on to line edit with the publisher. I hope to have those notes back in the next month.

Where Eagles Fly

50,000 words and climbing on the new Mil SF project. At this rate, I should have draft one wrapped in the next three weeks. From there, it’s on to the fleshing out phase of draft two, the polish phase of draft three, then a submission to the publisher by Memorial Day.

Detron City Vice (A Mako Story)

Already outlined and ready to start draft one as soon as Eagles and Colonies are out the door. Right now, my plan/hope is to have Colonies launched by early summer, Eagles into the publisher by May 25 (late summer launch), then get cracking on Vice in June.

As always, all of this remains fluid on account of publishers. Vice is the lone exception. I’ll indie pub that one, so I’ll get to set the schedule.

In summery… 

Roll on, Big River. Roll on.

Cheers, gang. Be good, and talk soon.

Ian

IJM 2018 Project Update

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Happy New Year, y’all! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season, and are bunkered in for Snowmageddon 2018!

I wanted to take a second while I had one to bring you up to speed on my current slate of projects.

First,Colonies Lost is through round one of line edits and back in the hands of the publisher. We’ll now take that into round two of line edits before moving on to copy edits, then the first of two proofreads before sending the novel to post-production (formatting, cover design, etc.).

Sadly, I don’t have a release date yet for Colonies Lost, though it’s my hope the publisher will have it out by Memorial Day, if not sooner. Regardless, I think you’ll find Trip Hackett’s story well worth the wait once it does arrive.

Second, I’m currently penning draft one of a novel called, Where Eagles Fly. This will be a continuation of A Family Tradition, the short story I wrote in 2017 for the Four Horsemen anthology, For a Few Credits More. In brief, this story will follow Taylor Van Zant as he struggles to rebuild his family’s mercenary company while slowly realizing that there may’ve been more to his brother’s death than investigators let on.

My goal is to wrap this manuscript by May so the publisher can have it out by the end of summer.

BONUS: I’ll also be writing a second short story to set the table for this book, told from the perspective of Taylor’s late brother, Terry. It’ll be titled, Pronounced Ry-lee O-sy-ris, and be made available only to my newsletter subscribers.

Not a member? You can sign up here to get Pronounced when it drops, as well as the Mako prequel short story, Mako: Genesis, which is available now!

Finally, the long-awaited Mako spinoff novel, Detron City Vice, chronicling the adventures of Danny Tucker and the Overlook crew should be out by Christmas.

In closing, much of what I did in 2017 with The Mako Saga relaunch and two short stories was to set up what will hopefully be a banner year in 2018. I can tell you this: with four—FOUR—projects on the docket, it’ll be a busy one if nothing else. LOL

Cheers, y’all! Stay warm and talk soon!

Ian