News from Jon F. Merz // Writer ~ Producer ~ Ninja

Work on a Weakness

admin — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:46:21 PDT

Yesterday at Reebok CrossFit Medfield, the warm-up for the day was “work on a weakness.” The idea behind this was to pick something that you weren’t good at and work on it to make it better. Luis, who taught the class, was careful to point [...]

Who Do You Learn From?

admin — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:13:33 PDT

2013 has been an interesting year of exploration so far. It marks my 22nd year of training in Togakure-ryu Ninjutsu under Mark Davis at the Boston Martial Arts Center, and my roughly 30th year of training in martial arts in general. In January, I also [...]

A Debt of Gratitude

admin — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:50:51 PST

On January 8th, I had my first “official” CrossFit class at the awesome Rebook CrossFit Medfield facility here in town. It was a number of years ago when I first heard about CrossFit from my good friend Richard Borgatti, Jr. We were at the dojo [...]

9 Tips for Would-Be Warriors

admin — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:35:53 PST

I write a lot of these posts for my sons – that’s the simple truth of this blog. Especially when it comes to martial arts and various other unorthodox subject matter. The thing I love about the Internet is that posts like these will – [...]

5 Key Tips for Indie Authors in 2013

admin — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:18:48 PST

By Jon F. Merz I had a great year of sales in 2012. As detailed in my previous post, I did quite well selling ebooks that I released independently. But I try to never rest on my laurels – because, frankly, laurels aren’t all that [...]

EBook Sales: 2012 Round-Up

admin — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:07:00 PST

By Jon F. Merz This post is probably a little late by comparison to other yearly round-up posts, but so be it. I thought it would be interesting to run down some of my numbers from the year 2012, now that the year is officially [...]

The Snitch Who Stole Christmas

admin — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:34:16 PST

By Jon F. Merz THE SNITCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS As you may know, each year I write a special Lawson Vampire Christmas story for my fans and give it away absolutely FREE here on my website. This is one of the ways I say thank [...]

Sears: Total FAILURE – Part 2

admin — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:58:47 PST

Back at the end of October, I wrote a blog post detailing the absolute unmitigated FAILURE of Sears to make good on its delivery of three appliances to my home. While blasting this around Twitter and other social media networks, I heard back from the [...]

Why It’s Important to Subscribe to My Newsletter

admin — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:37:20 PST

My newsletter is one of the most important things I have as an author. It lets me keep all my readers informed of my new work, writing, happenings, and all sorts of assorted goodness. There’s free fiction and more in each issue and I try [...]

Family Security

admin — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:20:03 PST

The news today out of Newtown, CT is horrible on so many levels. It’s hard to know how to even begin to fathom the evil that would rob innocent children of their lives. When my sons got out of school today, my wife and I [...]