Carl Hiaasen
@carlhiaasen.com
Author. Latest novel is FEVER BEACH.
In honor of the recent news about pot in Florida, some Hiaasen history... In 1980, Carl and his colleagues at the @miamiherald.com wrote a series of articles about pot smuggling in Key West. This series was a finalist for the @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social in 1981.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
In honor of the recent news about pot in Florida, some Hiaasen history... In 1980, Carl and his colleagues at the @miamiherald.com wrote a series of articles about pot smuggling in Key West. This series was a finalist for the @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social in 1981.
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The FEVER BEACH ebook is on sale now for $7.99 everywhere ebooks are sold! 📖🌴
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October 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The FEVER BEACH ebook is on sale now for $7.99 everywhere ebooks are sold! 📖🌴
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According to @penamerica.bsky.social, Florida leads the nation in banning books from libraries. This is the third year in a row, so we've pretty much locked up the title.
October 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
According to @penamerica.bsky.social, Florida leads the nation in banning books from libraries. This is the third year in a row, so we've pretty much locked up the title.
Despicable DeSantis wants to erase the memory of one of America’s worst mass murders.
August 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Despicable DeSantis wants to erase the memory of one of America’s worst mass murders.
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New—and packed!—column is up at @crimereads.bsky.social. This time, I talk about novels by Michael Farris Smith, @alexnorth.co.uk, @carlhiaasen.com, @kairarouda.bsky.social, Katia Lief, and Rob Hart.
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Gabino Iglesias: Let’s Talk About Some New Books
I have such a fantastic column for you this month! Want to know why? Well, there are half a dozen awesome novels here, but the main reason you’re getting such a lengthy column is that I read …
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July 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
New—and packed!—column is up at @crimereads.bsky.social. This time, I talk about novels by Michael Farris Smith, @alexnorth.co.uk, @carlhiaasen.com, @kairarouda.bsky.social, Katia Lief, and Rob Hart.
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I'll tell you who can write a goddamn book is Carl Hiaasen.
July 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I'll tell you who can write a goddamn book is Carl Hiaasen.
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Increasingly feels like the most prescient writer of the past few decades/chronicler of our particular brand of depravity is Carl Hiaasen
July 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Increasingly feels like the most prescient writer of the past few decades/chronicler of our particular brand of depravity is Carl Hiaasen
Super event at @strandbookstore.bsky.social with @alafairburke.bsky.social talking about FEVER BEACH!
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May 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Super event at @strandbookstore.bsky.social with @alafairburke.bsky.social talking about FEVER BEACH!
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New SouthBound podcast is up! This week's guest is the great @carlhiaasen.com ... we talk about his new book FEVER BEACH, his friendship with Jimmy Buffett ... and a little about his late brother, Rob.
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Carl Hiaasen visits 'Fever Beach' and enjoys making bad guys get what they deserve
Podcast Episode · SouthBound · 05/14/2025 · 45m
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May 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New SouthBound podcast is up! This week's guest is the great @carlhiaasen.com ... we talk about his new book FEVER BEACH, his friendship with Jimmy Buffett ... and a little about his late brother, Rob.
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Thank you, Vero Beach Book Center and readers for a fantastic first event for FEVER BEACH!
Tonight (Wednesday, 5/13) is Coral Gables with @booksandbooks.bsky.social . Find all of Carl's upcoming events at carlhiaasen.com/events/
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Tonight (Wednesday, 5/13) is Coral Gables with @booksandbooks.bsky.social . Find all of Carl's upcoming events at carlhiaasen.com/events/
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May 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Thank you, Vero Beach Book Center and readers for a fantastic first event for FEVER BEACH!
Tonight (Wednesday, 5/13) is Coral Gables with @booksandbooks.bsky.social . Find all of Carl's upcoming events at carlhiaasen.com/events/
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Tonight (Wednesday, 5/13) is Coral Gables with @booksandbooks.bsky.social . Find all of Carl's upcoming events at carlhiaasen.com/events/
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FEVER BEACH is out now!
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May 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
FEVER BEACH is out now!
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First shot of FEVER BEACH in the wild!
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May 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
First shot of FEVER BEACH in the wild!
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FEVER BEACH is out tomorrow and Carl is hitting the road! If you have questions about his upcoming events, check out carlhiaasen.com/events/faqs/
Event FAQs - Carl Hiaasen
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May 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
FEVER BEACH is out tomorrow and Carl is hitting the road! If you have questions about his upcoming events, check out carlhiaasen.com/events/faqs/
New York! Carl will be at @strandbookstore.bsky.social on Thursday, May 15 at 7 pm, interviewed by @alafairburke.bsky.social. Get your ticket now at: www.eventbrite.com/e/carl-hiaas...
Carl Hiaasen + Alafair Burke: Fever Beach
Join us for a release event with bestselling author Carl Hiaasen, discussing his new novel Fever Beach.
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May 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
New York! Carl will be at @strandbookstore.bsky.social on Thursday, May 15 at 7 pm, interviewed by @alafairburke.bsky.social. Get your ticket now at: www.eventbrite.com/e/carl-hiaas...
New Jersey! Carl will be at @barnesandnoble.com Paramus on Saturday at 1pm. Get your (free) ticket for the event here: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/bnpa...
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Bestselling author Carl Hiaasen signs copies of FEVER BEACH
Please join us in welcoming bestselling author Carl Hiaasen as he signs copies of his new book Fever Beach! For fans of Midsomer Murders! Another instant classic from Carl Hiaasen-laugh-out-loud funny...
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May 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
New Jersey! Carl will be at @barnesandnoble.com Paramus on Saturday at 1pm. Get your (free) ticket for the event here: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/bnpa...
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If you know someone getting ready for graduation or could use a little advice yourself for getting through these crazy times, ASSUME THE WORST is just the ticket!
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April 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you know someone getting ready for graduation or could use a little advice yourself for getting through these crazy times, ASSUME THE WORST is just the ticket!
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Did anyone in Florida vote for Elon Musk and his gang of cyber-maggots to go after our national parks? www.everglades.org/watch-now-ho...
WATCH NOW — How the DOGE cuts are impacting Florida’s national parks
Friends of the Everglades Executive Director Eve Samples weighs in on how the DOGE cuts to national parks staff is anything but efficient in this month’s Voice of the Everglades update: The national p...
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March 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Did anyone in Florida vote for Elon Musk and his gang of cyber-maggots to go after our national parks? www.everglades.org/watch-now-ho...
Ebook and Audiobook Fans! SQUEEZE ME is on ebook sale now for $1.99 everywhere and DOUBLE WHAMMY, NATIVE TONGUE, and STORMY WEATHER are just $4.99 at Chirp!
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Ebook:
Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0841NPVX5/
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/3Fprrk7
Bookshop: bit.ly/4kvrbAk
Audiobooks: bit.ly/3DIdiy2
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Ebook:
Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0841NPVX5/
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/3Fprrk7
Bookshop: bit.ly/4kvrbAk
Audiobooks: bit.ly/3DIdiy2
March 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Ebook and Audiobook Fans! SQUEEZE ME is on ebook sale now for $1.99 everywhere and DOUBLE WHAMMY, NATIVE TONGUE, and STORMY WEATHER are just $4.99 at Chirp!
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Ebook:
Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0841NPVX5/
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/3Fprrk7
Bookshop: bit.ly/4kvrbAk
Audiobooks: bit.ly/3DIdiy2
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Ebook:
Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0841NPVX5/
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/3Fprrk7
Bookshop: bit.ly/4kvrbAk
Audiobooks: bit.ly/3DIdiy2
Thank you to Best Thriller Books for this terrific review of FEVER BEACH!
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Fever Beach By Carl Hiaasen — the best thriller books
Wild, highly entertaining and immensely gratifying, Fever Beach is American sociological and political satire at its finest. Carl Hiaasen has crafted a no-holds-barred, over-the-top, laugh out...
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March 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Thank you to Best Thriller Books for this terrific review of FEVER BEACH!
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Great team, great network. I’m psyched.
Bill Lawrence, Adam Horowitz & Edward Kitsis Team to Develop Carl Hiaasen Novel ‘Skinny Dip’ at Max (EXCLUSIVE)
The Carl Hiaasen novel "Skinny Dip" is being developed as a TV series at Max with Bill Lawrence onboard.
variety.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Great team, great network. I’m psyched.
One way to make the hurricane season more exciting:
Fire a bunch of the storm forecasters!
Fire a bunch of the storm forecasters!
Trump fires hundreds working on weather forecasts, satellite data and radar systems
The terminations come days before a potential severe weather outbreak in the southeastern U.S. — and just months ahead of the next Atlantic hurricane season.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
One way to make the hurricane season more exciting:
Fire a bunch of the storm forecasters!
Fire a bunch of the storm forecasters!
Same dog, 12 years later
February 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Same dog, 12 years later
Coming this weekend in the @sun-sentinel.com! You can read it early here: www.qgdigitalpublishing.com/publication/...
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February 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Coming this weekend in the @sun-sentinel.com! You can read it early here: www.qgdigitalpublishing.com/publication/...
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Elon’s goon squad strikes again, and not a peep of protest from any of the Republicans that Florida sent to Congress. Manatees are way more popular than gutless politicians, and it’s only 21 months until the next election. Voters won’t forget this.
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These park rangers oversaw Florida’s only manatee refuge. Then they were fired.
The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce are impacting the only national refuge created specifically for threatened manatees.
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February 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Elon’s goon squad strikes again, and not a peep of protest from any of the Republicans that Florida sent to Congress. Manatees are way more popular than gutless politicians, and it’s only 21 months until the next election. Voters won’t forget this.
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