The TOF Spot: 2024

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

In The Belly of the Whale - Now Available

Dear Readers,

Dad's final (? maybe?) work is now available at Amazon, B&N, and many other fine retailers. I compiled a list a few posts back - here it is.

Friday, June 21, 2024

New Story from Michael F. Flynn

Greetings All.

Mike (Dad) has a new story in the July/August edition of Analog. I know Analog is available on Kindle store and Analog themselves also sell digital editions. It may also be available at your local bookseller. Check it out! It's a story called "Mandarins," an idea he and Harry Turtledove were bouncing around some years (decades?) ago between themselves. Their joint work never came to fruition, but before he died, Dad worked on it himself and sent it in and now Dad's left you all with this little amuse bouche.

Thursday, June 20, 2024

Gloria Estefan Was Wrong

It's not the rhythm that's going to get you.

It's the bots.

I've turned comment moderation on for The TOF Spot because it was overrun with spam comments. I just don't have the time or the energy to be on here daily like Dad was (lol or weekly or...) and I guess since the blog isn't really maintained anymore, the bots are just throwing up trash comments on his more popular posts. I've just spent time deleting them all, and there's still more to go through.

It's offensive to me personally that they're posting on his death announcement, even though I know it's a bot and not necessarily malicious in that sense. They were also all over that Ptolemaic Smackdown post, which I know was a more popular one of his.

Anyway, I set it up to notify if there's a new comment so ... let's see how terrible this is. If I get a ton of notifications of spambots then ah well. But maybe the closed comments will turn the bots away in search of a recipe blog instead.

Saturday, May 25, 2024

In The Belly of the Whale: Publisher's Weekly Review & Pre-Order Links

Hello Fans of Michael Flynn.

I am pleased to let you know that Dad's novel In the Belly of the Whale will be released by CAEZIK on July 16, 2024. It has received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly, which you can read here. Publisher's Weekly calls it "thought-provoking" and "an impressive and original epic."

If you're wondering where and how you can get your hands on it, no worries! Several retailers already have pre-order links available for you.Of course folks outside of the US know your booksellers better than I do - I just went with what I could find.