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I wrote a book over the last year or so (did a few drafts of it), and in the editorial process my editor, Jennifer Brozek, did actually take out all of my left-out oxford comma instances and put in commas, which she cannot do on my blog! Muahaha. Yes, I laugh in sinister manners over […]

  I’ve mentioned on various social media in the last couple months that I’ve been rewatching Star Trek: Enterprise, which was rebranded as simply “Enterprise” from the onset to try to appeal to a younger, hipper, I have no idea what they thought they were doing with either that or the theme song, now that […]

The Rich Hill Sweepstakes is officially over! I’m going to include the last couple weeks in general in this, as this all started with the Chapman trade from the Yankees to the Cubs. But who did the best? Who did the worst?  Here we go, starting with the losers this year:

I went into Star Trek: Beyond unsure if I was even going to see the movie. The Star Trek reboot has been wholly underwhelming so far, Justin Lin (Fast and Furious) did not instill confidence in me as a serious director, trailers looked atrocious. Star Trek (2009) created a new Trek universe, one with more […]

As most authors, I’ve found it’s a bit harder for me to want to read adventure-style Science Fiction or Fantasy while I’m in the middle of writing. It led me to a period where I didn’t read a ton over the first 6 months of the year. I hope to change that this summer! I’ve […]

Baycon is coming up this weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area ( http://baycon.org/bcwp/ ), with the theme “It’s all about the Space” featuring guest of honor and star trek alumni, David Gerrold. Because of this, and some speculation I saw, I decided to put my list together of who I’d like to play the next […]

Well I haven’t posted here in forrrrrever. Sorry about that, folk! Things over on my side have been rather busy. I have at least 4-5 new Doomtown: Reloaded fictions out that rather than link individually, can be easily found here as they’ve been compiled by an awesome fan: https://doomtownarchives.wordpress.com/  It is missing the “Dirty Deeds” set […]

Doomtown: Reloaded Frontier Justice – The Definitive Set Review! At least definitive to me. I go by card by card assigning a grade to each card in the set. Did this for the first two and people have contacted me saying they missed it, so here we go. I usually like to post these up […]

Okay, so I stole the title of this blog from my good buddy, Robert Neilson’s short story collection, which I’d super link right here to promote but I seem to be unable to find it online. He stole it, likely, from the song from The Band Wagon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik8igCUb2i8    Ahh… Fred Astaire. The good ol days […]

Well I’ve certainly been remiss in updating my blog for a long time. I’m still writing quite a bit, more than ever truth be told. Around November last year my first fiction piece came out for the card game Doomtown: Reloaded. For those that don’t know, Doomtown is an expandable card game where you build […]

Something amazing happened this last week. Something so rare that it’s sent waves across the internet because of pure awesomeness and generosity. What’s that? Is it an empowering message via Taylor Swift about pointless criticism? Even better! Stephenie Meyer is using her clout as one of the most successful writers of this century and as […]

Does this post mean it’s time to kill my blog? No! This is a review of a new book by debut author Nadine Brandes. A Dystopian book with a Christian outlook. What would you do if you knew you only had one more day? (Points for anyone who gets the reference) Anyway, I’m reviewing a […]

Hello friends and readers! Answer: not updating my blog, certainly. I had a weird period over June/July where I kept getting sick repeatedly and it sapped my energy pretty bad. My goal for the summer was to write a hard science-fiction novella for the Panverse novella series edited by the glorious Dario Ciriello (who you […]

I attended a science fiction convention earlier this year, and as I’ve invariably seen at various cons around the country, a panel went off-topic to make snide remarks about the novel Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. Ever since wildly successful movies were made of her books, those involved in the science fiction community at large, professional […]

The wonderful folk over at geekgirlinlove.com did an interview of me which was posted today. You can find it here: http://geekgirlinlove.com/2014/02/03/author-interview-jonathan-del-arroz/

http://dariospeaks.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/on-honesty-and-self-censorship/ My friend who is a great author, editor and publisher posted the above blog this morning which really got me thinking. One, I’m a bit shocked that writers are really afraid of government surveillance to that degree. While I think it’s definitely a bad road we’re going down, I don’t think there’s a danger […]

I have a tendency to walk away from most cons saying “that was the most fun I had at a con in my life!”  Well, I’m not certain anything can actually top Dragon*Con 2012, the last year where Anne McCaffrey’s Worlds had its own track, and I had the privilege of really dialing in the […]

Well then, I’ve been super quiet on my blog which I’ve made an excuse before a couple of weeks ago, but things have just escalated more in life. First I was super sick over the new year, then I took a vacation to Maui, and then finally last weekend was RustyCon in Seattle (more on […]