Jonny Nexus

Category: Writing

  • Jonnycon II: Full Story With Pics

    Today is the morning after the night before, where the night before was Jonnycon II, the launch party for my latest novel, the Sleeping Dragon. That actually makes it sounds a tad more debauched than it was; it was actually a quite sober though still enjoyable occasion, and we’re all fine the next day with…

  • On The Naming Of A Series

    This is something of an announcement twice over, the first announcement being of a new novel that I’ve started working on1, and the second announcement being that of the resulting marketing / naming predicament that this decision has precipitated. The new novel, provisionally titled the Elven Lands Murders, is not so much a sequel to…

  • Cover vs Cover: Fight!

    Last weekend, during a browsing session in an Oxfam bookshop in Chester, I found an interesting pair of books on opposite shelves, which resulted in me making the following tweet shortly after: Now I should say at this point that referring to these two novels as “Dan Brown wannabes” is unfair. Shorn of the shackles…

  • You Think 2016 Was Bad?

    As a writer, I spend a lot of time thinking on plots of novels, and so it’s only natural that when I think about events occurring on our world, I try to imagine how they would develop were they events of fiction rather than reality. People talk about 2016 as being the year from hell,…

  • My Top Ten Writing Haunts

    haunt h??nt/ noun a place frequented by a specified person. “the bar was a favourite haunt of artists of the time” synonyms hang-out, stamping ground, meeting place, territory, domain, purlieu, resort, den, retreat, favourite spot; For any author, finding somewhere to write can be of crucial importance, doubly so for authors such as myself for…

  • Wild Jester Press’s End of July Sale

    To celebrate the coming of summer and the end of school, and also to give the Amazon recommendation algorithms the slight “Hey! Remember me!” kick that they appear to require every now and again, I’m currently running a sale of both Game Night and If Pigs Could Fly though my Wild Jester Press imprint. You…

  • Mugs For Discworld Convention Charity Auction

    The last weekend in August will see me at the Discworld Convention in Warwick to sell copies of Game Night and If Pigs Could Fly in the trade hall. I had a really good time at last year’s Irish Discworld Convention, and sold 50+ books, and had an equally good time selling just Game Night…

  • My Panel At Mancunicon (Eastercon 2016)

    As well as having a stall in the trade hall to sell by books Game Night and If Pigs Could Fly, I am appearing on a panel at Eastercon on the subject of self-publishing. Hopefully, I’ll have something reasonably sensible and informative to say, on what not to do, if not necessarily on what to…

  • Dragonmeet 2015

    Just a quick post to say that I will be at Dragonmeet 2015 on Saturday 5th December selling my books Game Night and If Pigs Could Fly. Dragonmeet’s a one day, London gaming convention. It’s a great con, that I’d strongly recommend. And if you do come, please drop by my table and say hi.

  • To KDP Select, Or Not To KDP Select… That Is The Awful Moral Choice

    Below emphases in all quotes, mine: What is KDP Select? KDP Select is an optional program for you to reach even more readers and gives you the opportunity to earn more money. If you choose to make a book exclusive to the Kindle Store, which is a requirement during your book’s enrollment in KDP Select,…