Marcus Alexander Hart's Blog, page 2
June 7, 2022
Galaxy Cruise is coming to audio!
People often come to me and say, “Hey, my old pal, Marcus. I’d love to read your books, but I don’t actually want to read your books. When are you going to put them out in audio?”
And I always say, “Ugh. I’d love to have audiobooks, but I don’t want them to suck. So I’m not doing them unless I can get them produced by a big-time professional publisher, like Podium Audio.”
And then the big-time professional publisher Podium Audio said, “Sounds great! Let’s do this thing!”
Friends, I am so excited...
May 10, 2022
Thank you, Galaxy Cruisers!
Hello friends!
Thank you so much for all of your support during the release of Galaxy Cruise 3: Trial by Leisure! I hope you’re all digging the new adventure!
During our epic launch sale, we gave away close to 2,000 copies of book one. To all of you new folks, welcome aboard! There’s lots of fun ahead.
Speaking of which, as some of you have probably noticed…
Galaxy Cruise 4 is on presale!
I’m already hard at work on this one. The main story is pretty much set, but there’s still a lot of leewa...
April 26, 2022
Galaxy Cruise Series Sale!
Hello, friends!
In celebration of the launch of the all-new Galaxy Cruise 3: Trial by Leisure, I’m having a sale on the rest of the series!
From April 26 to 30, book 1, Galaxy Cruise: The Maiden Voyage is FREE in every Amazon store worldwide. Click over and grab it!
Get book one free!
During this time, book 2, Galaxy Cruise 2: Royally Screwed is marked down to 1.99 in the US and UK.
Canada and Australia, you’ve also got a discount this week (though your prices are different, on account of excha...
April 5, 2022
Galaxy Cruise 3 is here… almost!
Hello friends! I’m so excited to share this month’s big news.
Galaxy Cruise 3: Trial by Leisure is coming on April 24!
And this post is dedicated to sharing all the details. Keep scrolling all the way to the bottom to get…
The cover reveal!The blurb!The first chapter!And learn how you can read it first, for free!
by Jay Toney
Four hundred and thirty thousand years ago, the first Nephilim came to Earth in search of gold. After a perilous journey, the Stargaz...
March 8, 2022
OK Go… snag a funny book
Hello friends!
First! Exciting news! I expect to finish the first draft of Galaxy Cruise 3: Trial by Leisure this week. I’m hesitant to give a release date, because we all know how much I suck at hitting them, but I’m gonna say you can expect to have this thing on your hot little Kindle some time in April.
In the meantime, I have a special gift for you…
My silly text-messaging book Amber’s Blind Date (written as Casey Summers) is totally free from March 8 to March 10!
It’s a madcap adventure to...
February 17, 2022
A Galaxy Cruise “What If…?”
Alien planet vector created by upklyak – www.freepik.com
Hello, friends! Happy February!
As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, my writing process is infuriatingly inefficient. I write tons of stuff that never makes it to the finished books. Like TONS OF STUFF. Like, the first Galaxy Cruise book is about 70,000 words long. To get there, I wrote over 120,000 words. I wrote almost a full book worth of content nobody ever saw. Until now…
Have you watched that Marvel show, What If…? It takes key moment...
January 4, 2022
Games to make you go crazy
Hello, friends!
Welcome to 2022! I hope you were able to spend the holidays having fun with your loved ones. I spent the Christmas break with my wife and her family, playing games that made everyone mad at me.
Okay, have you ever played that game Heads Up? It was invented by the Ellen DeGeneres show about ten years ago. It’s a free app for Android and iPhone, and it looks like there’s even a Zoom version now.
You play by putting the phone to your forehead so your friends can see the screen, but ...
December 14, 2021
The holidays have gone wrong…
Are you familiar with Mischief Theater? They’re a group of absurdly talented stage performers who pretend to be absurdly inept stage performers. And they are flippin’ hilarious.
Back when I lived in London, I saw their first show, The Play That Goes Wrong, wherein a troupe of actors put on a play that… wait for it… goes wrong. Horribly, catastrophically, gut-bustingly wrong.
Their follow-up Christmas show, Peter Pan Goes Wrong was, no question, the funniest live performance I’ve ever seen. By t...
November 27, 2021
That whooshing sound…
If you’ve read the Galaxy Cruise books, you can probably guess that Douglas Adams is one of my greatest literary inspirations. But Adams was a consummate procrastinator, who famously said…
A lot of writers invoke this quote when they miss a deadline, thinking it’s a cheeky way to say “Even our heroes struggle. Everything will be fine.”
I see it a different way.
In 1997 or 1998, I went to the desk at my local Books-A-Million and pre-ordered The Salmon of Doubt. I can’t remember now if it was, at...
November 27, 2020
Sci-Fi Comedy Author Interview: Julia Huni
In these troubling times, we all need a little sci-fi comedy with heart, strong friendships, and plenty of baked goods. Julia Huni’s Space Janitor series ticks all those boxes. In fact, they’re such lovable romps, you may be surprised to learn that Julia’s publishing journey started in a post-apocalyptic world… and is about to make a return trip!
I invited Julia to the Author Interview Airlock to talk about her books, her recent Kickstarter campaign, and the dirty secret of “multi-genre...
