Welcome to Jon's author diary for the week ending April 19, 2020.

I have had a busy week, working hard to get my redraft of The Tower, episode 16 of The Ravenglass Chronicles written. It’s now ready for the editor.

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be working on episode 17, The Star, and on getting Blind Reset proofread and ready for publication, hopefully by June. And, then, I need to redraft Cleric of the Wasteland.

My goal for this year was to clear the backlog of open projects. So far, I’ve completed two non-fiction titles (The Stoic Writerand Podcasting for Authors) out to the world, Blind Reset redrafted, and three episodes of The Ravenglass Chronicles written. There’s still the Black Death trilogy lingering in the background, but I’m not sure how much of an appetite there’s going to be for a series about a worldwide pandemic.

Podcasting

I appeared on a few podcasts this week—Too Young Cinema Club and Sci-Fi Roundtable.

Too Young Cinema Club is a podcast about movies you watched when you were far too young that had a lasting impact. For me, that movie is Terminator 2: Judgement Day, which I first saw when I was about nine or ten.

During the podcast, it dawned on me just how much that movie inspired the way I tell stories.

Which movies did you watch when you were too young that stuck with you?

Visit: spreaker.com/show/too-young-cinema-club

On the Sci-Fi Roundtable, we discussed time travel (which inevitably led to a discussion about Terminator 2). It was a fun times as usual!

Visit: sfrtpodcast.libsyn.com