Several weeks ago I mentioned I was rereading the original Thrawn trilogy in preparation for the new book by Timothy Zahn. I hadn’t read them since I was a teenager, and was wondering if they held up as much as I’d enjoyed them as a kid. It turns out these are some of the best […]
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Periscope Ponderings: Why Don’t More People Do Independent Journalism
The answer may be obvious to some, but I give some encouragement too: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1YqKDRBQMNYJV
Geekchats: Bypassing The Gatekeepers With Richard Fox
A lot of authors have been asking me “What can I do?” when they saw the staggering stats regarding anti-male bias within the publishing industry. The good news is, it’s just the industry, readers don’t have such political motivations with the stories they read, they’re just looking for fun. On Thursday, Sept 14th, Youtube GeekChats […]
Fiction Review: Walking On A Sea Of Clouds By Gray Rinehart
I met Gray Rinehart at LibertyCon this year and had a brief chat with him about his debut novel, stating I’d read and review it when it came out. With ebooks, I’m exceedingly slow, but fortunately this is still on the level of new releases so let’s delve into his debut novel, Walking On A […]
The Orville Thoughts
Know I said i’d write a full review, but I covered pretty much everything i had to say on periscope. If you haven’t seen that, it’s here: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1YqxomjqYpyGv
Star Wars / Marvel Writer Chuck Wendig Must Apologize for Bigoted Remarks To Hispanic Author
Is this what Disney as a company stands for? Privileged white authors saying these kinds of things about minority authors they don’t know? Do they support people who seek out rising star Hispanic authors, and call them horrific things on the internet? I don’t know Chuck, have never interacted with him save for asking to be […]
Sci-Fi Sexism By The Numbers: It’s A Mean Girls’ Club
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 […]
