Jon Del Arroz

The mainstream comic industry put out a hashtag #PencilsDown which has later been coopted by people dancing on the graves of the comic book industry. The establishment of publishing is really stuck because of their monopolistic distribution deal with Diamond Comics. It means they can’t get any product out whatsoever. With the industry already in […]

Author Lou Antonelli is running for a SFWA board position, and as he’s looking into the process, he discovered SFWA runs their elections all through a survey site called survey monkey — where a couple of people have access to its results. I run my author surveys through this site to see what my audience […]

I’m a fan of the classic pulps, having studied what made our American culture so great in the first half of the 20th century, which then declined as the entertainment industry became weaponized as a political tool. Normal people, consequently, exited culture, which led to its slow spiral which started in the 60s, but reached […]

It’s unbelievable how dishonest and destructive SFWA is as an organization toward both readers and authors alike. Over the years, we’ve detailed on the blog their lack of standards for entry to the organization, their abject lies about minority authors, their troubles with pedophilia — and now they’re taking another step in their point and […]

If you watch my youtube streams, you’d know I had to move houses this week in the middle of this nutty pandemic. It was a rather stressful ordeal. I kept my family away from the new house and the movers while I coordinated everything, unpacked most of the items myself, disinfected the entire house with […]