Author: Jonathan S. Pembroke

So…. I was brought into mind on this topic by a post made by Petrik Leo, a prolific reviewer for Booknest.EU and Goodreads.  It came about in the SPFBO Facebook group, on a discussion about reviewers.  Petrik had a sidebar sub-thread on brutal reviews where he stated, “I was...

So…. Pilgrimage to Skara, my second completed novel (the first shall never see the light of day), continues to garner, uhm, “stellar” reviews.  See here, here, and here, for the latest reviewer feedback. Muse:  You did earn all those reviews, you know.  It’s your own damn fault. By the...

So…. I posted almost three months ago on the great review I received at Booknest.eu for Pilgrimage to Skara. Since then, things have been…different.  For the SPFBO contest, I’ve had six total ratings (with five reviews so far).  My composite rating so far is 4.1. (Muse: Out of five...

The new year is upon us and that means a fresh start for the projects I’ve been idling on. One thing that happened is that I finished the draft of the first novel of the Princess of the North quartet, Scion of Andoya.  So now, I am looking for...

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.  Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world.  You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something. —...

So…. Based on my last post, one might think I was riding high in the saddle.  Not only did Pilgrimage get a stellar review but was also selected as Booknest‘s finalist in the 2017 SPFBO.  It’s quite an honor and I still keep waiting to wake up and realize it...

Greetings.  Yes, it has been a long time, and real-life, as it likes to do, has been kicking my ass in about five different ways. No matter.  Good news brings me back.  Back in May, I entered author Mark Lawrence’s 2016 contest Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO).  Essentially, it’s three...

So…. If one were to listen to the news lately, one could be forgiven for thinking that the end is nigh.  Between political strife, natural disasters, the fact that a man with the name Carrot Top has his own Las Vegas show….  And that’s just what’s going on in...

Wow, I checked and I haven’t done one of these random updates for a long time–like eighteen months.  I didn’t realize it had been quite that long. Well, whatever.  I’ve been slacking, actually.  I took about a month off from writing or doing much related to writing, so I...

So…. I have done exactly what the title suggested. A fellow author brought to my attention this contest, over on the blog by author Mark Lawrence.  I think it is a really neat idea, so what the hell, why not?  I entered Pilgrimage to Skara (still available on Amazon,...