Many of you are going to be reading this via Facebook or Twitter when this blog hits. These networks, as big as they are, are dangerous tools that are propagating a narrative to you. There’s been a lot of chatter lately about what these giants are going to do to “stop trolling” or “stop the spread […]
Some Quick #PulpRevolution Reading
A friend of mine brought to my attention a couple of anthologies produced a couple of decades ago, where a couple of heavy hitter editors went back and researched some of their favorite old out-of-print pulpy stories and assembled them for ease of read for the new generation to discover these Worlds of Wonder: https://www.amazon.com/Good-Old-Stuff-Gardner-Dozois-ebook/dp/B00G1FBO7G […]
Appendix N Is Your Science Fiction Red Pill
Despite the fact that the publishing industry seems to be at an all time low: bookstores closing, a glut of mediocre product on Amazon, so much to choose from and no real way to distinguish, the internet has given us means by which we can find interesting stories more easily than we used to […]
Going For The Throat
That’s what the bacteria or virus or whatever inside me has done. Spent last night unable to sleep, throat so swollen I can’t swallow. Hurts! Needless to say, if you haven’t realized, my Geekchats with Superstar Editor Jason Rennie – The Man Who Makes Amazon Bestsellers has been pushed back to next Friday on account […]
#GetOnGab
Super sick today, laying in bed with a fever, but I did hit 500 followers over on the gab.ai social network. I love it over there, and want to help promote them. In honor of that, I am doing a book giveaway of a signed Star Realms: Rescue Run to mark this follower milestone. I’m […]
A Landslide Victory!
The other day, I asked my dear readers to help me choose the title of forthcoming book, which will be a YA Steampunk novel about a young farm girl who inherits and airship and hijinx ensue! Action. Adventure. Romance. Thrills! Here’s the results of the polls: 50% For Steam And Country (Apparently my readers like […]
Friendship In The Time Of SJWs
An author friend of mine wrote an interesting blog about social media and politics from the perspective of a European living in America, citing how bad it’s become. As I mentioned on Vox Popoli last week, “The Science Fiction and Fantasy writing and convention scene is one of the worst SJW converged subcultures.” When people […]
Love Is A Drink That Goes Straight To My Head
It’s Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air. I took the occasion to tell some of my favorite authors how much I’d love to co-write with them on Twitter, but the day also spurs thoughts as to what romance is within the context of Science Fiction, and whether it has a place being central to […]
Geekchats: The Man Who Makes Amazon Bestsellers
There’s one man responsible for creating a short fiction anthology that propelled so many authors into the Amazon Top #100 author rankings, no small feat at all. He did it by telling stories that no other publisher would dare touch. Short fiction is an incredibly tough market, with most not selling at all in today’s […]
A Mailing List + Crowd Sourcing A Book Title
I’m getting hip and with it in this modern internet age with a mailing list, as I realized I’ve skipped that valuable marketing step. I won’t post to it except for new releases and perhaps a couple of times to push for Dragon Award nominations, so it will be low additional email quotient for you. […]
#PulpRevolution Mindset
This might be total confirmation bias speaking, and I mean this to spur discussion rather than ramble about it too much. I see a very different style of posting from the Appendix N, Pulp Revolution, Science Fiction Should Be Fun crowd than the Literary SF group. The Pulp group makes fun, talks about stuff they love. […]
On Gatekeepers
I had a totally different blog for this morning planned, but Dragon Award Winning Author Nick Cole got me thinking, as he often does (and on a totally off topic note, I’d appreciate if you’d nominate Star Realms: Rescue Run for Best Military Science Fiction and Fantasy for this year’s Dragons). This is mostly aimed at […]
Perennial Baycon Guest Gets Nasty
Despite Baycon’s misleading form letter about their long time guests, there many who are a part of the con year after year, none who could remotely be on the right side of the aisle, and most of whom don’t really have any product out on the market that’s relevant in the current year. But, they’ll keep […]
2/11/17 Star Realms Signing, Demo, Tournament: Game Kastle, Fremont CA
I’ll be doing a book signing, demo of the game and running a tournament for anyone who wants to come down tomorrow, Saturday the 11th at Game Kastle in Fremont, CA. Address is: 3911 Washington Blvd in Fremont and their store phone is 510-651-4263. https://www.facebook.com/GameKastleFremont/ Will start at 12:00 PM Noon for demos and book signings […]
The Art Of The Troll
There’s a LOT of posting going on now, messages, comments, fake amazon reviews, trying to troll me. I expected this backlash fully. What I did not expect… that these people don’t know how to troll effectively. There are some efforts going on that I don’t want to dissuade because I find it awesome, as it […]
Fake Furry News!
Shocking. Truly shocking. On the heels of the robust Alt-Furry community gaining prominence through an article telling their side of the story, or at least a mostly unbiased one, Vice magazine has upped the ante, gaslighting and making it clear that– what should I dub them– normie-Furries should do their duty and attack them, similar […]
Sure, I’m Making It Up
Those of you who have been following me on facebook, gab and here, might have seen how I did a little investigative journalism last week about UC Berkeley and Milo, and how they gave a response citing there were “no reported injuries” in their attempt to damage control and suppress media interest in the terrible […]
Are You Tired of Winning?
I’m still not tired. Working hard on editing my Steampunk book right now, but I’m gonna take a break to show you this image: Yes, that is my book, and yes, it is currently selling better on Amazon in Space Opera than BayCon’s Guest of Honor, who has a TV show that just came back […]
Hi There!
Yes, imagine me saying “Hi There!” in that voice. I’m Jon Del Arroz! You might have heard of me from such blogs as: Superversive SF, Nick Cole, Declan Finn, or Vox Day. You may have also heard of me from such blogs as Mary Robinette Kowal and Jennifer Brozek.
Si vis pacem, para bellum!
Thank you everyone for such a warm response yesterday. I appreciate all the love and support more than you know. Feel free to keep in touch too as I’ll have your back in these situations as well as best as I am able. I’ll try to get out 2 posts today: one on responses to my […]
Bringing Home The Baycon (Or What I Learned From Being Blackballed)
A couple of weeks ago, I waited for daisyslot promotions before adding credit to my account to play my favorite slots games, then,I found out that I had been blackballed from speaking at my own home convention, a place I’ve loved and cherished for almost a decade. This was a wanton act of discrimination, and […]
Is xXx: The Return of Xander Cage The Greatest Film Of All Time?
I’m struggling to conceive of one that’s even remotely in its league. I sat in the theatre last night with a total of 5 people in there, and a friend and myself laughed our butts off the entire time (and got some angry stares for doing so from the other 3 people in the theatre).
Innovation and Singularity with Author Doug Sharp
We open this week of blogs with something a little bit different. I’ve done written interviews before, but sparingly, and this time I spoke with science fiction author Doug Sharp. He’s not a name you’re likely to have heard much about just yet, but he write such innovative, unique fiction that it’s a breath of […]
Get Spaced!
I’ll be on the GeekGab Podcast at 2:30 PM PST talkin’ bout space and whatever else these fine gents ambush me with: