On yesterday’s blog, I talked about my interaction with a professional paying science fiction publishing group who decided to berate me on Twitter for asking a simple question about anti-male discrimination in Science Fiction. It’s been obvious for a long time in publishing that men need not apply, you’re not welcome. But now in the […]
The Death Of Star Trek
I know I owe part 2 of my article going over the numbers of science fiction publishing. I’m still working on that because it’s very research intensive, spent a lot of hours on it so far and am not complete yet. I have to check and double check everything for accuracy, so bear with me. […]
The Sci-Fi Publishing Elite’s Dirty Little Secret: Anti-Man Discrimination
This week saw me taking a lot of vitriolic hate again from several members of the in crowd in the science fiction publishing establishment. Here’s what happened. I noticed that a group that calls themselves the premier podcast in science fiction, a professional rate paying show called Escape Podcast, was running the fourth iteration of […]
Why Is NYT Bestseller and Hugo Award Winner John Scalzi So Afraid Of Me?
I talk about this and the history of my bizarre situation with him on Periscope: Why is NYT Bestseller @Scalzi afraid of me? https://t.co/miFdzsPvPR — Jon Del Arroz (@jondelarroz) September 6, 2017
TV Review: Amazon Prime’s The Tick
This weekend i watched the 6 episodes of The Tick. I don’t watch a lot of TV because it’s usually so dark and dreary it’s painful to watch and makes you feel bad. I don’t want to get in that head space This followed a little bit of that trend as it’s MUCH darker than […]
Gravity Of The Game Novella – Cover Reveal
If you were watching social media last night you may have noticed the cover reveal of my forthcoming novella, Gravity Of The Game. Commissioner Hideki Ichiro is planning a field of dreams on the moon. The World Baseball League has been in decline for decades, about to reach disastrous proportions. To survive, the game of […]
Dragon Awards 2017 Final thoughts
Getting a ton of people asking me how I feel about the Dragon Awards, from friends who are truly interested, to the general hater groups who are trying to use it as means to snipe at me, my fiction, and my friends’ fiction. I’m stoked. 8,000+ ballots were cast. This is a win for fandom. […]
Steampunk Review: Tainted by Morgan Busse
Tainted is a Steampunk novel set in a Victorian-style fantasy world that doesn’t feel all too different from most London settings. Kat is mostly alone—with a dead mother and a mad scientist father who spends all his time away from her, on his projects, and she’s left raised by paid staff, a woman who […]
What Makes Great Sci-Fi Tv?
My hands are a bit sore because I’m cranking away at a novel, so I did a periscope rather than a couple thousand words on the topic. This stems from a Facebook discussion I had yesterday where I said both Farscape and Andromeda are better than Battlestar Galactica and Firefly. It stirred up a lot […]
Music Blog: Brand New – Jesus Christ
One song has really stuck with me as one of the most profound lyrical songs of the last couple decades, and that’s the one referenced at the top of the blog. Really the song is one of the few songs that deals with Christianity and Jesus Christ from a perspective that’s different than you […]
Mindset Motivation: The Greatest Fighters Of All Time
Naturally the talk of the weekend was the Mayweather vs. McGregor fight. There were a couple narratives going on the whole time: Mayweather is too old, past his prime, can’t do it anymore. McGregor doesn’t know how to box, he won’t last, shouldn’t be there. Both fighters were in there saying “I’m the best ever, […]
Last Call For Dragons!
The last ballots go out this weekend, so this is literally your last chance to sign up for the Dragons. If you want to support my work in journalism and producing quality, fun science fiction, the best way to do so is of course to pick up the books themselves, and review on Amazon. But […]
