At FenCon 2022 we had the opportunity to sit down and have a conversation with some amazing guests. This week, hosts/authors Steve Diamond and  Larry Correia talked with Special Guest, neuroscientist/author Dr Rob  Hampson about big brain stuff. 

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This week’s episode brought to you by Mike Kupari’s Trouble Walked In

Cassandra Blake, an employee for the Ascension Planetary Holdings Group—the largest and most powerful corporation in Nova Columbia—has gone missing. And her sister wants to know why. When questions need answering on Nova Columbia, Detective Ezekiel “Easy” Novak is the man folks turn to. He gets results—one way or another. 

But what begins as a routine missing person case quickly turns into something much bigger and more sinister, with implications that could affect the entire planet. It seems Cassandra wasn’t just investigating her employer. She had uncovered a secret effort to excavate and exploit an ancient alien artifact known only as The Seraph.  

Soon, Easy finds himself trying to unravel a conspiracy that may implicate not only Ascension, but the cultlike Cosmic Ontological Foundation—and the highest echelons of the Terran Confederation itself.

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At FenCon 2022 we had the opportunity to sit down and have a conversation with some amazing guests. This week, hosts/authors Steve Diamond and Larry Correia talked with Special Guest, author David Carrico about the writing process and his new book The Blood Is The Life

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This week’s episode is sponsored by Against All Odds (by Jason Haskell)- available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3rcmzEE (affiliate link)

Idealistic navy lieutenant Jacob Grimm just wanted to honor his mother’s sacrifice in the last great war. When he’s forced to return fire and destroy a squadron of ships to save his own, he thinks he’s the hero…

Until they discover the ships are full of children.

Disgraced and denied promotion, Jacob’s career is over. That is until the head of ONI needs a disposable officer to command a battered destroyer on the rim.

There’s just one problem, Interceptor hasn’t had a CO in months and the ship is a mess. Worse, the system he’s assigned to is corrupt and on the verge of all-out civil war with the Alliance.

However, no one told Jacob he was disposable.

Pirates, smugglers, and Caliphate spies complicate the situation and one captain with an old ship can’t enforce the law, let alone stop anyone.

The single greatest discovery of all time is about to change intergalactic politics forever. If Jacob doesn’t find a way to succeed, then it won’t just be the end of the Alliance, it will be the end of freedom for humanity.

From USA Today bestselling author Jeffery H. Haskell comes a military science fiction epic in the tradition of Honor Harrington and Star Trek. If you love heroes and starships, you will love to stand with Commander Jacob T. Grimm Against all Odds. You’re in the Navy now!

I actually put this on my blog for me, not for you, so I can just glance at my phone instead of trying to use their app. When I’m not on these panels I’ll probably be in the Bard’s Tower booth signing books. (and I just noticed they spelled my name wrong) 😀

Thursday-

Strange Collaborations: Tales of Co-Authoring :: 255 C

Michael Anderson, Jay Boyce, Shelly Brown, Larry Corriea, Paul Genesse, Aaron Michael Ritchey
Thursday September 22, 2022 :: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Building A World Your Reader Cares About :: 250 A

Todd McCaffrey, James A. Owen, Brandon Sanderson, Michael A. Stackpole, Larry Corriea, Kaylynn Flanders, J.R. Johansson
Thursday September 22, 2022 :: 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

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Friday-

Funny Writing with Funny Writers :: 255 C

Richard Pini, Wendy Pini, Larry Corriea, James Dobbs
Friday September 23, 2022 :: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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Saturday-

Storytelling For Younger Audiences :: 255 B

Larry Corriea, James Dobbs, Marion G. Harmon, Rick Heinz, Gama Martinez
Saturday September 24, 2022 :: 10:00 am to 11:00 am

Building Perfect Flawed Characters in Writing, Gaming, Worldbuilding and Beyond! :: 355 C

Jay Boyce, D.J. Butler, Larry Corriea, Mark Hansen, Nathan Shumate, Daniel Swenson
Saturday September 24, 2022 :: 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Creating An Apocalypse and Then Moving On :: 150 G

D.J. Butler, Larry Corriea, James Dobbs, Brian Lee Durfee, Marion G. Harmon
Saturday September 24, 2022 :: 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm

I have been looking forward to reading this book but my early review copy that was supposed to get here while I was at FenCon didn’t make it in time. But this is the release week so I’m plugging anyway!

This is book 3 in a series of fun alternate histories where George Armstrong Custer lives and goes on a wacky series of adventures.

Armstrong and the Mexican Mystery

More fantastical than Harry Turtledove, funnier than Eric Flint, and with definite shades of The Wild, Wild West, the celebrated Custer of the West series—praised by Winston Groom (Forrest Gump), Stephen Coonts (The Flight of the Intruder), and Rob Long (Cheers)—comes to its shocking—and hilarious—climax as George Armstrong Custer, surprise survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, unearths the lost civilization of Atlantis and battles the evil Atlanteans for the fate of the world.

NEVER FEAR—ARMSTRONG IS HERE!

A mysterious gunman meets Marshal Armstrong in San Francisco with tales of lost gold, unrequited revenge, and an unsolved mystery in Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert, inspiring Marshal Armstrong, Ambrose Bierce, and the rest of Armstrong’s loose band of soldiers of fortune to plunge into an adventure of fierce gunfights, criminal conspiracies, an innovative submarine, and an underground, secret superpower—the remnants of Atlantis—that aims to subvert Western civilization!

Can the malevolent, scheming Atlanteans be stopped?

That’s the mission for George Armstrong Custer, traveling incognito as Marshal Armstrong Armstrong, knight-errant.

Full of suspense, non-stop action, chivalric romance, and effervescent humor, this is a great place to enter the Custer of the West series!

Recently, Hosts/Authors Steve Diamond and Larry Correia found a list on Twitter of authors someone found “problematic”. Once Larry got over his sadness at not being included, they decided to explain why they have a problem with the list of problematic authors.  

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This week’s episode is sponsored by D.A. Brock’s Texas at the Coronation

For seventy years after a devastating war, the Republic of Texas kept to itself. But it would be rude not to attend the international naval review celebrating Britain’s new king, George VI. So with war clouds over Europe, Texas sends the elderly armored cruiser, San Antonio, and her new captain, Karl von Stahlberg.

While making new friends and meeting Texas’ ancient foe, can Karl and his men avoid sparking a war?

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