Drive Thru SciFi is running a special on my ALIBI JONES! For a limited time, you can get the new edition of the trade paperback AND a watermarked PDF for your eReader for just $13.98! That's about six bucks off the usual price - Plus you get the eBook, too: Alibi Jones - Glow-in-the-Dark Radio Comics | DriveThruSciFi.com
Sean over at DriveThruComics.com was kind enough to feature some of Federico Guillen's work on my projects in their newsletter. You can read it online!
Chapter Seven of Alibi Jones on the new podcast episode!
In this chapter: Alibi has brought Kit and Piccolo along to tell his Aunt Anita - former leader of the Solar Alliance - the impossible things they saw on Junzias. Her reaction surprises Alibi - he thought facing the Tek'Tah was tough!
Some book news, contest reminders - your chance to win a signed copy of the now-rare first edition of Alibi Jones - and review the Kindle version of the short story Alibi Jones: Vacation on Amazon to win a signed print edition! Remember, my talk with Chuck Moore on the Related Recap Podcast is still available over at Comic Related - talking books, comics, radio, music and life: http://comicrelated.com/news/11525/related-recap-262
Please take a minute or two and vote for me, won't you? I'm trying to win a part in the new recording of American Gods in the Neil Gaiman Audio Contest!
You can vote every day through May 22nd! Please do...
Fellow SMC Alum John Wilson gave me a call last week with some questions about my books and stuff. He wrote up this column for the Stowe Reporter - his own unique take on the situation...
On this episode of the Glow-in-the-Dark Radio Podcast you'll hear Chapter Six of Alibi Jones! There's a quick recap of the story before we get into the chapter. Alibi, Kit and Piccolo have arrived on Junzias. What they find is both impossible and disturbing...
There's a little bit of book news and contest reminders - your chance to win a signed copy of the now-rare first edition of Alibi Jones - and to review the Kindle version of the short story Alibi Jones: Vacation on Amazon to win a signed print edition!
Spoke with Chuck Moore on his Related Recap Podcast over at Comic Related - you can hear me talk about my books, comics, radio, music and life for about an hour: http://comicrelated.com/news/11525/related-recap-262
Sat down to speak this week with Chuck Moore who runs the very cool web site Comic Related (http://comicrelated.com). We spent just over an hour talking comic books, novels, radio, music creation and life in general. Lots of fun! Check out the podcast here: http://comicrelated.com/news/11525/related-recap-262
The one-hundred and fiftieth podcast episode I have recorded, uploaded and sent out into the world under the Glow-in-the-Dark Radio name is now out multiplying into the ether!
Doing this almost five years! Started in September of 2006 with a free feed from a now defunct podcast provider. Now we're on iTunes an' everythin'!
If you're checking out the podcast for the first time, welcome! I'm podcaster and science fiction writer Mike Luoma. I read from my books on this 'cast - science fiction adventure, chapter by chapter, free! Today, it's Chapter Five of my book Alibi Jones on this episode, but have no fear - there's a quick recap of the beginning to bring you up to speed before we get into the chapter itself. In the chapter, Alibi is trying to calculate a new Transpace Jump Point. When he goes looking for some needed information, he discovers just why the bridge of the ship they're on smells so bad...
After the chapter there's some CRAZY EXCLUSIVE BONUS MATERIAL!! Still writing the first draft of the next Alibi Jones novel, but I'm still going to read from it anyway on this episode! Who are The Devrizium?Are they really so Xenophobic they kill anyone who "soils" them with their presence? Find out more in an excerpt from Alibi #2 - but wait, there's more - AND hear more about these aliens in an excerpt from the script for the forthcoming comic book short story Alibi Jones: About Time. That's two huge chunks of previously unreleased material - unreleased in ANY form. There are slight spoilers and some early reveals in this stuff. Even if you've already heard or read Alibi Jones you may enjoy these glimpses of Alibi Jones' future. You might like the CONTEST, too - win a signed copy of the now-rare first edition of Alibi Jones!
150 Podcasts beginning in September of 2006... Did you know the name Glow-in-the-Dark Radio goes back even further? It's what I called my college radio show beginning back in the fall of 1984. It was also the name of my radio show on WIZN-FM when I did evenings there in the mid 90s - too good a name to give up - There's some more exclusive background material for you.
Looking at a couple Alibi Jones first editions sitting in a little stack in my room, I decided they needed to be out of my sight. Gone. How Lucky for YOU! I have all I need, a couple tucked away, a proof copy and one from the first print run. Tucked away where I don't have to look at them.
I sometimes say books are like children. Only they're not. You can't redo your botched attempts at raising a kid, right?
Did I just hear an "if only?"
Luck for me, you CAN redo your botched attempts at books - in the case of Alibi Jones, my botched attempt at creating the book's cover. Thought it rocked when I first put it out a year and a half ago. But I've learned a lot about design and type since then. I've worked with artists much more talented than myself. I've now been able to redo the cover to Alibi Jones with striking new art by Federico Guillen (artist on my Good Samaritan book) and my own updated skillz. The old cover now just hurts to look at!
This is where you come in. I'm giving away these last two copies so I don't have to stare at them anymore. I'll sign 'em and throw them in the mail to you if you win.
Here's how to get a chance win: Become a friend of ALIBI JONES on facebook before the end of the day April 30th - that's up through 11:59 EDT on 4-30-2011. Here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alibi-Jones/142797717510
That's it.
One of my Alibi Jones fans/friends/followers on facebook will then be drawn at random and will win the signed book. The winner will be announced on the Glow-in-the-Dark Radio Podcast on May 7th, 2011.
Not on facebook? Want another chance to win?
Just send an email to mike (dot) luoma (at) gmail (dot) com before the end of the day April 30th - that's up through 11:59 EDT on 4-30-2011 - with the Subject header "Alibi Jones Contest". One entry will be drawn at random and will win another signed book. The winner will also be announced on the Glow-in-the-Dark Radio Podcast on May 7th, 2011. Yes, you can enter both contests.
You'll win a signed, original first edition of Alibi Jones, with my old cover. The cover on the brand new second edition has been updated but the book itself is still the same inside as the one you'll receive, apart from a couple of cosmetic changes in the front matter. Aside from a hypothetical couple out there in the publishing stream, these are two of the last available of an edition that saw a small printing. These are rarities. Collectables. And one of them could be yours.
