It wasn’t always a novel. Once it was a short story. One of the first that was published that bore my name. It premiered in Wings of Change. Its title: “A Dragon Bigger than My Stories.” It was about a girl in a clockwork city. She was ground down. She longed for solitude. And thenContinue reading “Dragons of the Ashfall”
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Publish or Perish
Publish or perish. When you work in the academic world, thou shalt publish paper after paper to prove that thou art worthy of thine position. It’s not just the academic world, though. When I was younger, I thought Stephen King was slightly insane. Most people I read, like Robert Jordan, produced maybe a novel aContinue reading “Publish or Perish”
Glamorous Work
Sometimes the life of an author is glamorous. People trying to get selfies with you. Demanding autographs. Movie studios calling with multi-million dollar deals. All of which I’ve experienced day-in and day-out for years now. Some of that might be exaggeration. Ah, but not everything is always so glamorous. Thursday morning my wife and IContinue reading “Glamorous Work”
Farewell, Reading
In a normal year, I read a novel a week on average. I set them aside through the year to do an end-of-year review of what I’ve read. I think I’ll be failing this year. My year usually starts in July. That’s just how I count it. By this point I should have a goodContinue reading “Farewell, Reading”
I was a comic con booth babe.
And lo, I did enter the world of the con, and verily, it did assault my senses with much tumult and wonder. Last weekend I got to sell books under the tutelage of my friend Lydia Sherrer. She writes the wonderful Love, Lies, & Hocus Pocus books. I highly recommend them. Lydia and her husbandContinue reading “I was a comic con booth babe.”
Jonathon Mast: Author 