Writing – Page 15 – Jonathon Mast: Author

VACATION SALE!

I’m on vacation right now, so there’s no new blog post. Kind of. See, while I’m out of town… Madelyn of the Sky book one is on sale for ninety-nine cents. Less than a dollar gets you one whole book. Go check it out. Do me a solid so when I get back, I seeContinue reading “VACATION SALE!”

Wut

My wife is pretty active on BookTok, checking out other authors and supporting them. She suggests books and we get them and her taste is perfect. She saw that one of the authors she followed, L. E. Harper, was having a book signing near us. Awesome! Let’s go. And we entered the bookstore (Cincy BookContinue reading “Wut”

Writing the Darkness

Sometimes you read something, and you feel seen. The author knows you and has somehow bled your life onto the page in ink. It just happened to me. This week I read Side Effects by Ted Anderson, Tara O’Connor, and Dave Sharpe. The tagline grabbed my attention immediately: “Hannah doesn’t want to be a hero.Continue reading “Writing the Darkness”

Sometimes You Do, Sometimes You Don’t

I wasn’t sure I was going to get any writing done this week. I thought I might write an entire novel. Realistically, I figured it’d be somewhere between those two extremes. And hey, I was right! This week I presented at a conference for Christian artists. I was speaking on the necessity of vulnerability inContinue reading “Sometimes You Do, Sometimes You Don’t”

Numbers are Dumb

I may have an aneurysm by the end of the day. In September, I’ll be tabling at a con for my own books. I might be a little excited about this. Right now my wife and I are running numbers to see how many of our books we should have on hand at the con.Continue reading “Numbers are Dumb”