Jonny Nexus

Category: Writing

  • A Round-Up Of My Old Convention Reports

    People seemed to quite like my Eastercon report, so I figured I’d post some links to previous gaming convention reports I’d done for my roleplaying webzine Critical Miss, just in case anyone was interested. Here they are: * * * * * Gaelcon… Probably The Greatest Convention In The World While shopping at GenCon we…

  • Eastercon: The Inevitable Blog Write-Up

    I spent last weekend at Odyssey 2010, this year’s Eastercon. And in the tradition of previous trip reports, I thought I’d write it up. So here it is. What is Eastercon? Well there’s the obvious answer: it’s a convention held every Easter. There’s the slightly more informative, but still straightforward answer: it’s the British national…

  • Amazon Author Pages

    I’ve just discovered a rather cool new feature that Amazon have introduced: Author Pages. Basically, it’s a page for each author which can customised with the author’s picture and a biography. You can get to the author’s page by simply typing the author’s name into the search box. The author page should then appear as…

  • On Reviews, Genre, And Why Game Night Is Like The Plague

    At some point in this post I’m going to talk about Game Night sales and vaccinations, but I’m going to start off about talking about one of the pitfalls of reviewing, which is that a review is not so much a description of how much you enjoyed the book as a prediction as to how…

  • Drabble to Win A Free Copy Of Game Night

    I’m currently doing a blog tour to promote the publication of Game Night, in its entirety, on EN World in weekly instalments (you can start reading it here). I’ve just made the latest stop at Ian Sturrock’s Blog, where he first interviews me, and then launches a competition that has a free copy of Game…

  • I Will Be At Odyssey 2010 (a.k.a. Eastercon)

    I’m very pleased to announce that not only will I be attending Odyssey 2010, this year’s Eastercon, but that I’ll be on a panel too: a discussion on “Humour in SF” that’s provisionally scheduled for 11am on the Monday morning. I’ll post again when I have more details of the panel, or if the time…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…