There’s so much to share about the weekend at the Realm Makers writer’s conference, but the most important, brothers and sisters, may be a moment of clarity and revelation that was given early on in the conference to me, and one that the Lord compels me to pass along to you this morning. A lot […]
Realm Makers Conference
Meant to have a blog up for a review of Poul Anderson’s The High Crusade today, but I’m a bit busy at the Realm Makers conference in Reno, NV. It’s a conference dedicated to Christian speculative fiction writers and is really cool, worth looking at and attending in the future for writers. Ted Dekker gave […]
SJW Star Wars Authors Form Online Mob To Harass… William Shatner?
You read this right. William Shatner, in recent months, has boldly gone where almost no Hollywood actors have gone before (because if they’re not retired they’ll lose jobs and be blackballed from the industry by the fascists in control there) by speaking out against PC culture, mobs, and the drive-by hits that ruin people’s lives. […]
The Last Crusade: Letting God Work Through You
I have a confession to make, readers. A year ago at this time and before that, I was not walking the faith in the way I should. Sure, I believed that Jesus Christ rose from the dead to forgive our sins, but I compartmentalized my faith into a “something we do on Sunday” and did […]
Mega-Corporate Fascists Target Independent Content Creator
Earlier today, YouTube, subsidiary of the monopolisitc mega-corporate Google, Inc., removed a video by independent artist and political analyst Bre Faucheux, flagging it for “content.” Bre’s content does not have any violence, no sex, nothing that would be considered over the line, nothing rated R to it. However, she has a political opinion that is […]
Retro Review: Star Wars: The Last Command by Timothy Zahn
Earlier this year I was pretty excited to find that Timothy Zahn had a new Thrawn novel out. The original trilogy was something I found exciting in my youth, and I was eager for more with this character, which they’ve actually done a great job of incoroporating into the Rebels tv show as well. It’d […]
More Sci-Fi Fake News Dishonesty
I conducted fun poll about whether you are blocked or not by a very public science fiction author personality who seems to block more than 50% of people who are in the industry or are readers of the genre. My point was this was a very bad marketing plan for someone in the field. It seems […]
Dragon Awards -3 Days Left To Vote
I don’t have time to blog much today. My Seattle trip mid-week put me behind on both work and fiction writing, so I want to get all that done. However, Dragon Awards close Monday, and i need to make this last push. If you want to support me and my efforts here doing independent journalism […]
Linkin Park / Chester Bennington
This is an interesting and sad topic. I know I posted about Chris Cornell before, and I don’t want to get into the trap of blogging every celebrity death as if we’re close personal friends of the deceased, because I’m not sure that’s really a good thing to do with someone’s memory, and second, I […]
Supporting My Furred Friends
This evening I learned something tragic. That I, your humble Hispanic science fiction author, was blocked by the self proclaimed queen of diverse science fiction, N.K. Jemisin on twitter. It seems my mere existence pre-emptively causes her to make sure she is solely in an echo chamber of those who hate anyone who think differently […]
Review: Swan Knight’s Son by John C. Wright
I usually post my reviews here first, but today I went over to the Superversive SF site in order to post my review. It’s a site that should be on your daily blogroll if you like science fiction/fantasy. Some great people write over there. Here’s the review: http://www.superversivesf.com/2017/07/18/review-swan-knights-son-john-c-wright/
The Evil Corporate Patriarchy Is OUTRAGED By For Steam And Country
I figure these headlines work for marketing for TV and movies, it should work here. Pick up your fiction with a strong female lead written by a minority who likely is blackballed by almost all major publishing companies as a result of being outspoken. Signal your virtue like you do with your Doctor Who facebook […]
When They Make The Point Better Than You Can
Doctor Who. I don’t need to say more. You’re already triggered. So we’ll move on from there. I made a post on social media, a cheeky one out of amusement, that posited that Donald Glover should play Wonder Woman, and if anyone disagreed, they were by default racist and sexist. Nothing about the above BBC […]
Edited News Is Fake News
The paradigm of the whole “interview and destroy” has been something that the fake news media’s used to torch people for years. I’ve talked about it before in article form, where a writer pulls a couple of words out of something to make it look like someone said a quote, but only a word or […]
Retro Review: Cash by Johnny Cash
I don’t read a ton of biographies, auto or otherwise. Many of them come across as very dry as they recount events in life chronologically, and no matter how well done that is, it can get boring. The ones that really stand out are the ones that put the feeling and soul of a person […]
How Do We Fix SFWA’s Brand Part II: The Four Ps
Last week I spent some time and identified the public perception problems that the Science Fiction Writers of America has with a large portion of the independent writer and reader demographic which now comprises more than 50% of the product consumed by Amazon’s metrics, which detracts people from joining their club. I’ve been holding off […]
30 Minute Author Interview Podcast
I was interviewed on this podcast and it was very fun. Talk abou Star Realms: Rescue Run and For Steam And Country, plus a chance to win a free ebook! http://www.leighgendarium.com/2017/07/12/episode-61-jon-del-arroz/
New Star Realms Kickstarter!
Star Realms: Frontiers hit Kickstarter today. Of course i backed it immediately and it’s doing swimmingly (congratulations to doubling funding on day 1 WWG!). I love new Star Relams content and cards to make the game a different experience, and this looks to be a lot of fun: I still haven’t exhausted all the fun […]
Have You Missed My Geekchats?
I’ve had quite a bit of fun talks with all sorts of great authors over on Geekchats. We’ve had Beth Cato, Sarah Hoyt, Todd McCaffrey, Michael J. Sullivan and others. I do them live, so you get a real feel for who we all are and how we chat, sometimes the topics are more structured […]
Review: Netflix’s Castlevania
A lot of buzz about this animated program over the weekend, and I promised I’d watch it and review. This is based on the old Nintendo games, an action/horror thriller that was very intense when I was a kid, even on the 8-bit system. Naturally there’s been a lot of Castlevania games over the years, […]
Geekchats: All Things Steampunk with Beth Cato!
Tomorrow, Tuesday June 11th at 12 PM PST, I have a very special guest on for Geekchats, author Beth Cato, famous for her Clockwork Dagger and Blood of Earth series, some of the best steampunk and alt-history around. We’re going to chat all things steampunk from tropes to alt-history to final fantasy and back again. […]
The Last Crusade: Judging Evil and Wickedness
I’ve talked about common phrases that non-Christians like to take out of the Bible and smugly use to criticize Christians into silence. The topic at the time “turn the other cheek”, attempting to dupe Christians, but there’s another that does pretty much the same thing, which has been used to con a couple of modern […]
How Do We Fix SFWA’s Brand – Part I: Identifying the Issues
From my poll the other day about whether I should join SFWA. It was a good sample size for my audience, which I estimate to be at about 4,000 people overall based on blog clicks/book sales. It’s no bestseller status (yet) but no chump change either in the science fiction and fantasy community, which has […]
The Should I Join SFWA Poll
SERIOUS VOTES ONLY. I have been told that I will get what I give if I join SFWA. Should I do it? — Mr. (JD)A (@jondelarroz) July 7, 2017 So far, my audience is pretty adamant, but there’s still 12 hours left for SFWA to get a chance. President Cat Rambo, who last month called […]