The Jon Del Arroz Story
By Tom Hyland
Jon Del Arroz began his writing like most of us do as fans of popular entertainment. In his case it was a love of the original Star Trek series from the 60s. His love of the classic series began his writing during his senior year of high school when he began writing Star Trek fan fiction. Eventually, he would take his fan fiction and convert it into his own original space opera novel The Stars Entwined. As far as comics went he began writing his own scripts around 2010 and posted them as web comics for fun. It wouldn’t be until 2017 that he would take his writing seriously when a blog of his went viral and jump started his career in journalism. The result of which was The Fandom Pulse.
As his journalism with his blog grew, so did his library of novels and comics. He would go the self-publishing route going wide with both Amazon KDP and IngramSpark, spreading his reach to as many places as possible to try to reach as wide an audience as possible. Before writing a novel, he will write a few pages about his world as simple worldbuilding guides before outlining the novel’s plot. Once he is done with his first draft, he will give some thoughts and go back and do an edit pass using his worldbuilding notes to make the story better.
He is a devout Christian who takes joy in his work. He will pray for his work and his family every day and make sure that he is honoring God with his creativity. God is after all the ultimate creator. His family gives him a good reason to cut himself off. He will check offline around 5 PM every day to ensure that he spends time with his wife and kids, and tries to take the weekends off except for uploading his YouTube videos tied to Fandom Pulse.
He has been blessed to use crowdfunding with his comics. However, unfortunately, KICKSTARTER would ban him due to his conservative commentary on major corporations. Several DC Comics professionals began to report him to the platform, and it wasn’t long before he would be banned from using KICKSTARTER altogether without providing a reason, despite having delivered more than a dozen successful projects. He believes he was a conservative that was growing too big to overshadow the more left leaning mainstream.
So, he would move his crowdfunding to FundMyComic which believes in free speech and is run by a based Christian. With the 2024 election concluding with Donald Trump winning both the popular and electoral college votes, Jon is optimistic that the tide has finally shifted in the culture war to where sense and reason are returning to the table once again. And as Patrick Bet-David would say, the future is bright.
You can find Jon Delarozz at his website here: