Here are a variety of blogs and reflections about the process of writing my First two books. Stay tuned for more behind the scenes and blogs as I write my third book. Hope you enjoy!
Weekly Writing Update – 2/21
Check out my latest blog where I go over, a little bit, what I have done and worked on in the last weeks. Enjoy!
Chapter Fifteen Done!
Chapter Fifteen is done, I am officially HALFWAY through my third book! I hope you enjoy the excerpt, leave your comments, and it would awesome if you follow and like and share!
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! Here is a reflection on my 2024 and some intentions I have for 2025!
Merry Christmas and Best of the Holiday Season to All!!
Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Best of Seasons Wishes to you all, I hope it is full of food, friends/family, fun, and safe travels!
Keep Writing, Keep Creating!
A brief blog post around the importance of continuing to write when the world feels like it is falling apart.
Back at it again
Hello and Welcome to another of my, too frequent, Blog Posts about my writing and I am coming to you today to say that I am working on getting back at it again. I had been going on at a decent pace for a few months, but then things came up. A wedding Anniversary trip,…
Back in the Saddle, again
Well, folks, I am back at it again. After getting out of the habit of writing, again, I have climbed back into the saddle and resumed working on my third book, currently titled When Gods do Meddle. This book is set on a Terra where the gods regularly take an active role in the lives…
And the Sun Burned Red – Published
Information about the process of finishing the writing of And the Sun Burned Red, and its pending publication.
Cover and other last minute choices
The last decisions around the Second Edition of The Shadow of the Past were largely around formatting, cover, and map. Formatting The formatting was fairly straightforward, and largely was around adding a copyright page, table of contents linked to the correct pages, dedication, and a final pass on grammar. That largely did not take long…
Progress and Goals
First off, sorry it has been so long since I’ve made any updates. Since my last blog post I’ve made notable progress on my second book, And the Sun Burned Red, totally 8 more chapters and the end is in site. Seven more chapters to go! Chapter 22 – A Dire Prediction Chapter 23 -…
Progress and Procrastination
Good evening all, I am using the fact that I have gotten through editing the first third of the rough draft of my second book ‘And the Sun Burned Red’ to write another little update on what I am working on and the process of writing. On the one hand, I have spent more time…
Another milestone reached
Today I finally reached another milestone in completing what, I hope, will be the last major edit of my first book, The Shadow of the Past. When I decided to bite the bullet and publish the book on Amazon, I had just started another major revision of the work. I would have liked to have…
The Shadow of the Past, a history, Final Part
Click here for part 3 All together it took me about 7 years to edit my book into the form it is now in. At no point has the core story or plot changed but I have done much to to add depth to Si’ranna and its various denizens. I split up several of the…
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…
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,…
