Jon Del Arroz

November’s been a great month! I hit #1 again with Glorified. It’s very fulfilling to see the support for this series which I viewed as a big artistic risk. We closed on a For Steam And Country hardcover edition on kickstarter, which we’ve got all done and formatted, which had two purposes — a market […]

I see a lot of my feed lamenting that Chik Fil-A is going to stop donating to certain groups like the Salvation Army. I don’t understand why people are surprised, or why they would expect such out of a corporation. It’s the same old reactionary defense strategy that is why conservatives lose over and over […]

Some interesting news broke last week which I didn’t have time to post up to the blog: Barnes & Noble killed their article and review publishing division, in which a lot of “aspiring” establishment publishing authors and their cohorts wrote articles promoting their friends in hopes of getting exposure and “noticed” by being on a […]

I wrote a zombie story! It’s out in Dan Humphreys’ awesome collection of shorts from his hugely successful Z-Day series, and naturally I couldn’t just write a straight zombie fic being the silly artist that I am, so I wrote a romance. The title is “Love in the Time Of Zombies”, a reference to Love […]

Not a fantasy monk in a story, but a real life monk. I’m fresh back from 20BooksTo50K’s Vegas conference, super energized by the way high powered authors are transforming the industry to be more independent minded and really be about the BOOKS and not petty squabbling. Yesterday, the I couldn’t get the blog up because […]

What a great time. I flew in yesterday morning and missed a lot of the early activities, but got my badge quickly and went into the panel where several industry professionals were speaking — and I’m not talking just authors telling you how to write like most conferences, but representatives from Amazon, Ingram Spark, Podium […]

Today I’m off to the 20BooksTo50K conference in Las Vegas. If you followed last year, you’ll know this is the most important writing conference in all of the industry. It’s the ONLY one geared toward helping an author learn to be successful for themselves rather than to try to leech of the teet of the […]

It’s looking increasingly so. There was a time back in the dark ages of the 1990s, when one couldn’t publish themselves easily, or get out there to any degree where people could see your work without a lot of incredible circumstances falling into your lap. Those times are no longer. You can do everything yourself. […]

As a new addition to my hat line, we now have Make Comics Great Again hats for sale! These are long overdue, as we’ve been in the process of Making Comics Great Again for over a year with unparalleled productivity in indie comics, but now we have the swag to go along with it. These […]

It never stops, in fact, it’s going to ramp up before the 2020 election. The intent of these tech companies are going to be to remove all content which could even be remotely linked to people voting positively for Donald Trump. You’ve probably heard by now that Stefan Molyneux, one of the premier philosophers out […]

Posts like this morning’s from Vox Day get me fired up: If you’re going to be a despair nancy, just go away now. Take that weak, worrisome “I just fear bad things will happen to people who are braver than me” bullshit to Hell from whence it came. You are literally worse than useless. Very true. Look, […]

Yaaaassss! An unscheduled release. I started tooling around to figure out how to print-on-demand stuff on my own, so I present to you: Flying Sparks #0! These are early stories of Meta-Girl, one off shorts which are very fun. It includes: “Meta-Girl: Origin” “Hannah’s Story” “Dynamite Thor” And several character bios of the main characters […]