Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Month: August 2014

  • More book stuff

    Okay, so more details on The Memory Hunter: See the last post about it. The release date is 9/1/14 It is 320 pages. The cover is amazing.  I said I wasn’t going to reveal it until the Facebook page got 100 likes, so go like it. There is a preview of it, which consists of…

  • The description of my next book

    Are you ready to hear the description of my next book? Well, let me fire up the VT-240 terminal, and pull it up in emacs for you:

  • Scrivener Tips, Redux

    I am in the midst of production work for my next book, and this is the time I always learn new things about Scrivener.  Here are some random bits of info.  If this makes no sense to you, don’t worry; I’m mostly documenting this so that a year from now, I’ll google it again and…

  • Updates on the next book

    Okay. It’s about time to give you some more updates on the next book, because the release is imminent. The book is being edited right now, then it gets designed, goes through production, and all of that pain-in-the-ass stuff.  And then you buy it. Right? Okay, so here are the latest updates. I’m putting them…

  • The Cloud, the Book, the Pissing Contest

    I’ve been bitching and moaning about how Adobe decided to move all of their software to the cloud, and make people pay per month forever to use their stuff.  I’ve also been bitching about how Apple decided to kill off Aperture, which happened about ten minutes after I imported and tagged 50,000 pictures, and would…