On December 1, 2021, my new novel Dragons of the Ashfall will be released from Dark Owl Publishing! Orphans never have easy lives, but they’re especially brutal in the ashfall. Londinium grinds children down to nothing in its factories. Patty Rinkin, a rare grindery girl with a last name, just wants to survive. Then dragonsContinue reading “I Have a Problem”
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A New Platform…?
Amazon is debuting a new program: Vella. It’s not yet open to readers. Instead, Amazon is focusing on writers so there’s product there for readers to, you know, read when the program opens up. If you didn’t click the link, the basic idea is that on Vella, authors will post episodic fiction. Each episode willContinue reading “A New Platform…?”
I Will Never Fly Again
Today, at Dreamforge Anvil, you can read my new story, “I Will Never Fly Again,” for free. You may want to poke around the magazine there more than just reading my story, though. The magazine has two really neat focuses: They focus on hopeful stories. Not saccharine stories where nothing goes wrong, but featuring protagonistsContinue reading “I Will Never Fly Again”
Let It Rest
You take the steak off the grill. Oh, can you smell that? The char entices, and you know it’s the perfect doneness. But don’t cut into it! Not yet! You need to let it rest. Resting meat is absolutely necessary. Cut into that delicious meal too soon, and all the juices will run out. AllContinue reading “Let It Rest”
It’s Done
At the end 2020, I set a goal to write two novels in 2021. As of yesterday, I’m halfway there. Now, to be clear, I finished the rough draft. That means I have at least one revision before getting it to my developmental editor/ wife, and then at least one revision after that based onContinue reading “It’s Done”
Jonathon Mast: Author 