J.D. Goff's Blog

I sculpt mountains, and dig the basins of oceans, and I ever so gently set the stars in their heavenly constellations. I form worlds that exist nowhere but in my own imagination. And as enjoyable as creating worlds out of the strange, sometimes bizarre, and occasional darkness of that thing I call a brain, seeing others react to my creations is even better. The best praise a writer can hear is, "I fell in love with reading after I read your book!" There is no higher honor that can be heaped up...

The Rune That Binds was published ten years ago as the culmination of an experiment that began a few years earlier. In honor, and as a continuation of that experiment, I'm re-releasing (sort of) the book with new material, a new cover, and quite frankly, a better interior layout.

Back in 2011 when I first published TRTB, I really didn't know what I was doing. I was out of work, and almost out of money. I'd started writing TRTB as an experiment to see if I could write long form fiction. I'd h...

Abandon reality, all ye who enter here.

Book One of the Sommerstone Chronicles

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Worlds of myth, magic, treachery, and intrigue

Short Stories Works in Progress Musings on the craft

SOS will be getting a facelift, same story, just told better...

I have made a decision. I have never been happy with the second book in the Sommerstone series. I rushed it, compiled mostly of cast off chapters from the first book, to appease demands by a small but vocal minority of people who wanted the sequel. The chapters were always going to go into a […]

Life happens. Two words, as simple as those, is how I’ve always expressed the ups and downs that occur in everyone’s life. Life is filled with challenges and tragedies, the mundane and the exhilarating, and life happens on it’s own schedule, regardless of how much we might want it to be otherwise. Those of you […]

Life happens. Those two words have how I’ve always expressed the ups and downs that occur in everyone’s life. Life is filled with challenges and tragedies, the mundane and the exhilarating, and life happens on it’s own schedule, regardless of how much we might want it to be otherwise.

Those of you who’ve followed this site know that two and a half years ago my niece was murdered, and for a while I wasn’t sure I even wanted to write anymore. Time passed, and the people involved moved through the...

While you’re waiting for The Whisper of God, a little something I wrote on a whim. I hope you enjoy it. Time Enough by Jon Goff (c) 2017 “Time. It’s the one thing we all wish we had more of. Time for work, for family. Time to dream dreams and make them reality. Time to […]