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 […]
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Some Trips To Gomorra and a Semi-Announcement Wow! A lot has gone on these last couple months. Been plugging away at the Doomtown: Reloaded stories, which you’ve seen if you follow my facebook feed at all. If not, here’s a bunch of them for you to catch up on with some brief commentary which you […]
Doomtown: Reloaded – Wrting in the Weird, Weird West!
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 […]
Shake It Off, Shake it Off — A Follow Up Conversation About Bullying
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 […]
A Time To Die!
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 […]
End Of Summer Update
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 […]
Haters Gonna Hate: Ending Exclusivity In Fandom
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 […]
Interview of Me!
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/
Re: On Honesty and Self-Censorship
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 […]
RustyCon 2014
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 […]
Why The State of Journalism Is SCARY or “Mick Fleetwood, the Mainstream Media and Me!”
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 […]
Developing Characters In Comics Part 1
It’s hard to believe that Flying Sparks is midway through its 7th issue, with art being complete for issue 8 and writing half done for issue 9. It seems like just yesterday that I was uploading my first image to appear on the website August 23, 2010. I assume most folk who follow this […]
