Jonny Nexus

Jonny’s blog – life, writing, rants

I Will Be A Guest At Dragonmeet

Next Saturday (December 28th) the tenth Dragonmeet will take place at its regular venue of Kensington Town Hall. And I’m pretty proud that I will be one of the convention’s guests. To be an official guest at a convention is quite an honour, and one that I haven’t previously had. I’ve been a trader, and…

Nov 22, 2009
Game Night Serialisation: Chapter One Now Up!

I posted a few weeks ago to say that we (James Wallis of Magnum Opus Press, my publisher, EN World, and I) were going to be publishing the whole of Game Night on the web, in twenty-six weekly instalments. Well as of about 11:30 am today, it’s up: http://www.enworld.org/forum/blogs/jonny-nexus/2059-game-night-chapter-one-gate.html If you haven’t yet read Game…

Nov 16, 2009
Blog Tour: Update

On Monday, the first free weekly instalment of Game Night will be published on ENWorld, and as I announced a couple of days ago, I’m going to be doing a blog tour to publicise this event. Well as of now, I currently have six bloggers/sites signed up to host a stop on the tour. (And…

Nov 13, 2009
Blog Tour: Anyone Fancy Hosting Me?

Hi all, It’s now less than a week to go to the launch of the free weekly serialisation of Game Night on EN World and the launch of the ebook version of Game Night (which will be in PDF initially with other formats to follow later). (Details of the free weekly serialisation and the ebook…

Nov 11, 2009
My Writer’s Confidence T-Shirt Explained

There used to be a simple principle when it came to getting custom designed T-Shirts printed. They would either be fairly cheap and very crap (screen printed); more expensive, but still fairly crap (transfer sheet); or very expensive and still not very good (embroidered). Most people ended up with transfer printed white t-shirts, and since…

Nov 8, 2009
Why These Days Now Are Better Than The “Good Old Days”

Something happened the other day that reminded me that despite what legions of Daily Mail readers might think, our society now is not intrinsically worse that it was back in, say, the 1950s, and is in many ways far better. I was heading home, by train, to Brighton, after a day at work in London.…

Nov 5, 2009
Some Pretty Exciting Game Night News

Hi all, It’s coming up to a couple of years since Game Night was published, so now seems the right time to do something different. Something big. Something that will get it out there to all the people who not only haven’t yet read it, but haven’t yet even heard of it. We’re doing this.…

Nov 2, 2009
NASA’s Groundhog Day

On October 27th 1961, 48 years ago, the first Saturn 1 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral. This mission, SA-1, was not a complete rocket, and it did not go into orbit. Only the first stage was live, with the upper stages being merely dummies, and it performed only a sub-orbital loop. It was not…

Oct 29, 2009
Never Give Up

I think there’s a lot to be said in life for never giving up, and fighting on to the bitter end. Take Manchester United. They’ve been pretty much at the top of English football for nearly twenty years now, and a lot of that is due to them never giving up. I don’t think any…

Oct 23, 2009
Enough With The Spoilers!

How many of you guys reading this remember the now infamous cover of Starlog #35 (right) in which, just ahead of the UK release of The Empire Strikes Back, they totally blew the main revelation of the story (that Vader was Luke’s father), thus totally ruining the film for anyone unlucky enough to catch a…

Oct 20, 2009