Jon Cronshaw's Author Diary - The Real Life of an Indie Author | Writing | Publishing | Disability

Jon started working on the second draft of The Hierophant, episode six of his serial, The Ravenglass Chronicles. He also added more chapters to his first draft of Cleric of the Wasteland. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com or to @jlcronshaw on Twitter. Check out Jon’s other podcasts Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writin...

Jon completed his first draft of The Hierophant, episode six of his serial, The Ravenglass Chronicles. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel and Otaku on Writing where Jon is joined by two other authors to dissect classic anime to inspire...

Jon is back at the writing desk after the half-term break. He ended up adding another 2,000 words to The Empress and completed his third draft of The Emperor. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel and Otaku on Writing where Jon is joined...

It’s half-term this week, so Jon has had a chance to step away from the writing and reflect on some aspects of his future writing career. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel and Otaku on Writing where Jon is joined by two other authors...

This week, Jon completed his second draft of the Emperor and launched the fifth collection of Otaku Stories.   Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel. Download The Fool, the first book in The Ravenglass Chronicles for free at tinyurl.com/r...

This week, Jon completed his first draft of the Emperor and brought the release date for The High Priestess forward. He also gives an update on the future of the Stop Booking Around! podcast and talks about this year’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old...

This week, Jon completed his final draft of The Empress, the fourth novella in his epic fantasy series, The Ravenglass Chronicles. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel. Download The Fool, the first book in The Ravenglass Chronicles for f...

This week Jon completed his second draft of The Empress, the fourth novella in his epic fantasy series, The Ravenglass Chronicles. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel. Download The Fool, the first book in The Ravenglass Chronicles for f...

Jon is working on his second draft of The Empress and finished reading the Fellowhip of the Ring. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel. Download The Fool, the first book in The Ravenglass Chronicles for free at tinyurl.com/ravenglass   F...

Jon launched The Magician yesterday, started writing The Empress, and continued working on Cleric of the Wasteland. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel. Download The Fool, the first book in The Ravenglass Chronicles for free at tinyurl....

Jon outlined the next two novellas in his epic fantasy serial, The Ravenglass Chronicles. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel. Download The Fool, the first book in The Ravenglass Chronicles for free at tinyurl.com/ravenglass   Follow Jo...

Jon finished his second draft of the High Priestess and The Magician is all ready for publication on September 15. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel. Get your free copy of Addict of the Wasteland, the prequel to his Wasteland series,...

Jon continued re-drafting The High Priestess, has chosen a narrator for the Blind Gambit audiobook, and has been promoting his story Clockwork Titan. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel. Get your free copy of Addict of the Wasteland, th...

Jon has started re-drafting The High Priestess and has launched The Fool as a free book on Amazon to get readers interested in his fantasy series. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel. Get your free copy of Addict of the Wasteland, the p...

Although Jon is still is summer holiday mode, he managed to complete another edit of The Fool and The Magician based on some great pointers from a beta reader. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel. Get your free copy of Addict of the Was...

Jon was on holiday in Scotland this past week and found some inspiration for his forthcoming fantasy series. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old school friend through the process of writing his first novel. Get your free copy of Addict of the Wasteland, the prequel to his Wasteland series, by vis...

Jon launched the first in a series of short story collections this week. Awake: Otaku Stories Volume One contains three stories inspired by the movie Akira. You can listen to the creative process that inspired these stories on the Otaku on Writing podcast . Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mentoring an old sch...

Jon has had another busy week. He launched a new podcast Otaku on Writing , where three authors dissect classic anime to inspire original fiction. He also finished the first draft to The High Priestess, book 2 in his epic fantasy novella series, The Ravenglass Chronicles. Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com. Check out Jon’s other podcast Stop Booking Around! , where he his mento...

Stop Booking Around!: How to Overcome Author Procrastination is now live on Amazon. If you’re listening to this podcast on July 15-22, 2018, you can get the book for free on Amazon here: tinyurl.com/stopbookingaround . And, if you get something useful from the book, please leave a review.   Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com.   Get your free copy of Addict of the Wasteland, the...

Jon has been finalising his non-fiction book Stop Booking Around!: How to Overcome Author Procrastination, and outlined the next book in his epic fantasy serial, The Ravenglass Chronicles.   Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com.   Get your free copy of Addict of the Wasteland, the prequel to his Wasteland series, by visiting tinyurl.com/addictofthewasteland .   You can find out m...

Jon completed the second draft of his novella, The Magician.   He also received the Stop Booking Around! non-fiction book from editor, so has been working through some of the changes.   Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com.   Get your free copy of Addict of the Wasteland, the prequel to his Wasteland series, by visiting tinyurl.com/addictofthewasteland .   You can find out more a...

Jon completed the first draft of his novella in his epic fantasy series.   Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com.   Get your free copy of Addict of the Wasteland, the prequel to his Wasteland series, by visiting tinyurl.com/addictofthewasteland .   You can find out more about Jon Cronshaw and his work by visiting joncronshaw.com or Jon’s author page.   Like his Facebook page at fa...

Jon completed the first novelette in his epic fantasy series.   He answers a difficult question about Blind Reset and reflects on the balance between art and business.   Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com.   Get your free copy of Addict of the Wasteland, the prequel to his Wasteland series, by visiting tinyurl.com/addictofthewasteland .   You can find out more about Jon Cronsha...

Jon had to make a difficult decision this week about Blind Reset.   He talks about his progress on Cleric of the Wasteland and his epic fantasy series.   Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com.   Get your free copy of Addict of the Wasteland, the prequel to his Wasteland series, by visiting tinyurl.com/addictofthewasteland .   You can find out more about Jon Cronshaw and his work b...

Jon had much of the week off. He joined Pinterest and edited his short story for the Morecambe Steampunk Festival.   As a bonus, you can listen to the live recording of the story as performed today at Morecambe’s Winter Gardens theatre.   Email your questions to Jon (at) joncronshaw (dot) com.   Get your free copy of Addict of the Wasteland, the prequel to his Wasteland series, by visiting tinyurl...