• The Shadow of the Past, a history, Part 3

    Click here for Part 2 While I was proud of the work I had done in getting a rough draft of my book done, Grad school largely prevented me from doing much editing until the spring of my first year. I discovered in January or February of 2010 that Tor Books was doing a contest

  • The Shadow of the Past, a history, Part 2

    Click here for Part 1 My Junior Year at Miami kept me too busy to do any writing work on the book, although I continued to work through ideas and story problems with Doug. Much of the following summer was also taken up with preparing for and participating in a study tour in Italy. I

  • The Shadow of the Past, a history, part 1

    The general story of The Shadow of the Past first occurred to me when I was in High School. It was a typical outcast discovers he is special and sets off to fight evil story and was written, illegibly, in various required writing journals. This was not the only story that I thought up at

  • The book is here

    I got my copy of the book from Amazon today. I can say with some confidence that I wasn’t sure I would ever be here. It is a weird feeling holding a book I wrote in my hands.

  • Hello

    Hello, My name is Jon Holtgrefe and I am starting this blog to detail my journey into being a writer. Literature has always been a great passion of mine and I’ve been coming up with stories as long as I can recall. The book, The Shadow of the Past, which I just published on Amazon,