Last night I found out that my debut novel, Star Realms: Rescue Run was nominated for the most prestigious award in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Not only that, but every novel on my slate of recommendations got nominations as well. I’m super floored by all the support that you, my readers, have given me since […]
Realm Makers Conference
Meant to have a blog up for a review of Poul Anderson’s The High Crusade today, but I’m a bit busy at the Realm Makers conference in Reno, NV. It’s a conference dedicated to Christian speculative fiction writers and is really cool, worth looking at and attending in the future for writers. Ted Dekker gave […]
Mega-Corporate Fascists Target Independent Content Creator
Earlier today, YouTube, subsidiary of the monopolisitc mega-corporate Google, Inc., removed a video by independent artist and political analyst Bre Faucheux, flagging it for “content.” Bre’s content does not have any violence, no sex, nothing that would be considered over the line, nothing rated R to it. However, she has a political opinion that is […]
More Sci-Fi Fake News Dishonesty
I conducted fun poll about whether you are blocked or not by a very public science fiction author personality who seems to block more than 50% of people who are in the industry or are readers of the genre. My point was this was a very bad marketing plan for someone in the field. It seems […]
Linkin Park / Chester Bennington
This is an interesting and sad topic. I know I posted about Chris Cornell before, and I don’t want to get into the trap of blogging every celebrity death as if we’re close personal friends of the deceased, because I’m not sure that’s really a good thing to do with someone’s memory, and second, I […]
Supporting My Furred Friends
This evening I learned something tragic. That I, your humble Hispanic science fiction author, was blocked by the self proclaimed queen of diverse science fiction, N.K. Jemisin on twitter. It seems my mere existence pre-emptively causes her to make sure she is solely in an echo chamber of those who hate anyone who think differently […]
The Evil Corporate Patriarchy Is OUTRAGED By For Steam And Country
I figure these headlines work for marketing for TV and movies, it should work here. Pick up your fiction with a strong female lead written by a minority who likely is blackballed by almost all major publishing companies as a result of being outspoken. Signal your virtue like you do with your Doctor Who facebook […]
Edited News Is Fake News
The paradigm of the whole “interview and destroy” has been something that the fake news media’s used to torch people for years. I’ve talked about it before in article form, where a writer pulls a couple of words out of something to make it look like someone said a quote, but only a word or […]
Have You Missed My Geekchats?
I’ve had quite a bit of fun talks with all sorts of great authors over on Geekchats. We’ve had Beth Cato, Sarah Hoyt, Todd McCaffrey, Michael J. Sullivan and others. I do them live, so you get a real feel for who we all are and how we chat, sometimes the topics are more structured […]
Hot Take: Milo Sues Simon & Schuster
The culture war has shifted in a way I never thought possible. The big media conglomerates have been put on the defense on every front, to the way the fake news has gone full tilt in an effort to preserve their power, resulting in their lower ratings, not to mention the entire internet declaring war […]
#CNNBlackmail: The Mainstream Media’s Waterloo
On the 4th of July, a day dedicated to celebrating independence from tyranny, CNN used its corporate power to strong-arm an anonymous internet user into apologizing for posting a meme. The article was written by Andrew Kaczynski, a reporter who came to fame via his Buzzfeed platform through publicizing a poor joke by an average young […]
Where The Heck Is Jon?
Hello there loyal readers. I am quite sorry that this is the first time in… well, since you probably started reading that I haven’t had at least a blog a day up during weekdays, and that I’ve left you hanging for two straight days. That’s not very nice of me! I mentioned my LibertyCon schedule […]
Social Media Strategy: Crowd Source Fun Things!
Something I do that’s different that I don’t see a lot of other authors do is crowd sourcing. “How do you crowd source books?” one might ask. I actually do it fairly regularly. I give my readers voices in what blogs they want to see and what I’ll write about if I have multiple ideas, […]
Chirs Kennedy’s Asbaran Solutions on Audio!
Really not posting this for any other reason other than I’m excited to listen to this. I loved Book 1 in this universe, written by Mark Wandrey, and since I did that on audio, I like to follow the stories in the same format. This just came out, and I’m super pumped to listen. My […]
Writing Blog – On Character Voice and Perspective
I know I said I wasn’t going to write a blog today, but I just got the best compliment probably I’ve ever received. I was told by a reader that For Steam And Country in terms of prose, writing, tone looked NOTHING like Star Realms: Rescue Run. The reader couldn’t believe it was written by […]
New Federalist Article: The Alt-Tech Revolution
I’ve written about this before in one of my more popular blog posts: Big Tech is NOT your friend. We have to stop giving the companies that mine our data, track us, and then use that information to propagandize and silence our voices. It’s going to be the only way to enact change long term and […]
Writing Advice For New Writers
Author and Editor (one of the best out there) Dario Ciriello wrote a nice guest post on the Hugo-nominated Castalia House blog this morning on writing advice: The push to force everyone into a one-size-fits-all template began in Hollywood and is now rampant in the publishing industry. Don’t get me wrong: there are plenty of […]
Gorilla Mindset – It Really Works
This is more a reflection on the book Gorilla Mindset by Mike Cernovich and what it’s done to me than a straight review of the book. I’ve applied it, and shown how it’s been applied. How you utilize it will be your story. But this book actually allows for that more than many others,which is why […]
Clockwork Alchemy – San Jose, CA – Tomorrow!
Come find me tomorrow at the Steampunk convention, Clockwork Alchemy. Might be around Sunday as well but no guarantees on that. I’ll have For Steam And Country bookmarks and special Grand Rislandian Army ribbons in promotion of the book. Hope to see you there, I’ll take some good pictures of the costumes. More Info: http://www.clockworkalchemy.com/
Sneak Peek of For Steam And Country – One Page Podcast!
Author and blogger Dawn Witzke of the One Page Podcast did a quick reading of the first page of For Steam And Country. It sounds fantastic read aloud! You can check it out here: http://dawnwitzke.com/index.php/2017/05/25/one-page-podcast-for-steam-and-country-by-jon-del-arroz/
Chris Cornell Tribute
Going to have a pretty busy day but wanted to acknowledge all the beautiful music Chris Cornell brought me. I actually found his 1999 solo album to be the best. Saw him with a backing band in 2001 and he was inspiring both vocally and on guitar. Some of the last true rock ‘n roll:
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]