Old establishment publishing during Space Opera Week (Tor Dot Com columnist): Derp derp, trump bad. trump bad. trump bad. #PulpRevolution new hot writers during Space Opera Week: We talk about science fiction. Is it any wonder that we’re talking over the genre? That more and more people are turning to us for content and fiction […]
When It’s #SpaceOperaWeek And Your Contributors Hate Space Opera
It boggles my mind how an innocuous topic can be ruined by critics. It seems like that is a hallmark of our culture these days as well as the “Cult of the New” which I posted about last evening. All of these problems trickle into everything and make it so people simply can’t have any […]
Retro Review: Sassinak by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon #SpaceOperaWeek
What timing, as over the weekend I read this space opera beauty by Grand Master of Science Fiction Anne McCaffrey, and one of the space opera greats, Elizabeth Moon. Ms. McCaffrey was extremely generous with the brand name in the late 80s early 90s, co-writing with a number of folk to help increase awareness for […]
The Cult Of The New And Its Destruction Of Culture
Here’s a topic I haven’t really touched before, but it’s relevant to the way that culture has been systematically destroyed by a certain group over the last few decades. I’ve seen it discussed elsewhere as “the cult of the new” — where it’s driven by this near thoughtless consumerism of I NEED THE NEW […]
Comic Review: Green Lantern Corps: Rebirth Vol. 1
What’s interesting about the DC reboots is some of them don’t even try to “start over” but launch with the assumption that you know everyone and everything going on. For Green Lantern Corps and the Sinestro Corps and all that with the yellow/green war for who’s policing the galaxy – it pretty much assumes you’ve […]
Regular Influx Of New Readers Post and Projects Update
I’m getting a big traffic spike again, so I figure I should introduce myself to new readers. Hi! I’m Jon Del Arroz. I originally dubbed myself “Space Opera Word Pilot” as my primary love in genre fiction is space opera, and I intend on writing that for the rest of my life. Since then, I’ve […]
Ever Since I Found The #PulpRevolution
…when I sit down and write, I just feel like: know what I’m sayin’ ?
When You Converge Into SJW Politics, Everyone Loses
It’s a very simple formula. I could teach a business class on this and it would be very useful for young college students. Step 1: Have a nice company that produces something everyone enjoys. Step 2: SJWs enter the company, start removing anyone who’s not SJW and replacing with political operatives. Step 3: Company loses […]
The Last Crusade: Arming Future Teachers For Battle
From Pastor and brilliant theologian Rob Dalrymple. If any of you feel compelled to assist, contact me, or him if you know him or comment. I can’t think of any more important a mission than ensuring future gifted and brilliant minds are educated and armed to go out there into the world and preach the gospel. […]
Comic Review: Eternal Warrior Awakening #1
After discovering the new X-O Manowar and going back through the Valiant universe titles… I’m very near the point where if it says “Valiant Comics” on it, I’m going to at least try out an issue. Eternal Warrior: Awakening also is written by Robert Venditti, who as I mentioned in a review of Armor […]
BayCon Announces Program Riddled With Toxic Politics
A couple of months ago, I entered the conversation in the Science Fiction and Fantasy world in a big way by daring to speak out about a long-time sci-fi convention and their bad behavior with the way they treat anyone who disagrees with their staff politically. I was very scared at first, because I’d always […]
Independent Journalist Jon Del Arroz Gets Perez Hilton Hit For Harassment, Grossly Sexual Posts
May 10, 2017 San Francisco, CA For Immediate release: BREAKING NEWS: This morning, independent journalist and one of the leading Hispanic voices in Science Fiction writing was informed by Twitter that Perez Hilton was found in violation of Twitter’s rules of decency and humanity by posting lewd fake photos of the classy and elegant First […]
Comic Review: Discovering the Valiant: Amor Hunters Event
I recently read the Armor Hunters crossover event by Valiant, which spans 5 trade paperbacks with an event series itself, two tie-ins from prominent Valiant books in XO Manowar and Unity, and two offshoot spinoff miniseries. It was a daunting task, and curtailed my reading of catching up on the Valiant universe for a time […]
Gab Is Out Of Beta Testing – Open For All
https://gab.ai Gab no longer requires an invite to join. This is a social media site that allows complete free speech. No unknown algorithms hiding your posts. No banning because you say something that the overlords don’t approve of. It’s the best social network out there with new features all the time.If you’re not on […]
Writing Success
I just read a brilliant post by author Tim W. Long (Who is by no means associated with me, probably doesn’t even know me or who I am, and totally disavows me and in no way endorses me even looking at his words, haters!) on writing success, and he’s 100% right. It’s cruder than I […]
Book Review: The Black Witch by Laurie Forest
The review you’ve all been waiting for! Note: there are some spoilers in here as I had to really get into what I liked or didn’t like in the book, but I tried to keep the ending in tact as much as I could for those who are interested in actual reading. I discovered The […]
Here’s The Deal With The (Future) Cover Reveal
Alright. So I have some preliminary art for For Steam And Country. And it is HOT. I mean about the hottest piece of art I’ve ever seen. Which is good, cuz this is going to be the hottest book you’ve ever seen. I really REALLY shouldn’t share it before I have all the lettering done […]
Marvel Comics: When You Screw Up So Bad, You Can’t Even Spin It
When I broke the story that Marvel Comics blackballed Trump supporters and Christian writers from their ranks, very few were paying attention to their steep decline. A FAKE NEWS comic website even took to mocking me about bringing it up. No one is laughing at the funny books now. Within a couple of weeks story […]
The Battle For The Areth Continent Is Fast Approaching
Have you done your duty and signed up for the Grand Rislandian Army? We’ll need every boot on the ground to make sure that the evil Wyranth Army doesn’t prevail over our forces, guided by King Malaky XVI. Most of the action is on Facebook right now. Here’s the group if you’d like to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/519333975122120/ […]
Comic Review: Eleanor And the Egret #1
Being a big Chew fan, when I saw that John Layman had another comic out with a very silly concept, I went to check it out. With Sam Keith, I thought I could expect some quirky art and quirky story like I saw in Chew. This issue sets up one of those “what’s going on” […]
Book Review: Cartwright’s Cavaliers by Mark Wandrey
I picked up the audiobook edition of Cartwright’s Cavaliers by Mark Wandrey, expecting pretty much what I saw on the cover — big mech fights. While he certainly delivered on that cover promise in this book, he also delivered a lot more. Forgive me if I misspell any names, as having the audio version meant […]
To Message Fiction Or Not To Message Fiction
I don’t write message fiction. In fact, a lot of the actual criticism of my book (when there is any, most folk just love it!) hits when people read it as if they’re braced for some sort of lecture on morality from me… and they don’t find one other than bad guys with lots of […]
Comic Review: X-O Manowar #2
A few months ago, I swore off of individual comic book issues forever. On a whim last month, I picked up X-O Manowar #1, and like comic book superheroes who have their epic deaths – it didn’t last long. I was so impressed by the issue that I went out and bought the pre-order bundle […]
The Last Crusade: There Is No Compromise
God’s Word is clear: you are either giving yourself over to Him, or you’re giving yourself over to evil. There’s no in between. You can’t half-commit to Christ. By consequence you can’t “think he’s a great teacher with some good wisdom” and yet ignore his message. Either his words were true, or they were not […]
