Monthly Archives: January 2006
Coming to Philadelphia
Posted on January 5, 2006 15 Comments
Tremble, Philadelphia! For I am coming to you! On January 26th, in fact, I will be doing an in-store event at Germ Books + Gallery (308 E. Girard, 215-423-5002) with Ron Hogan, whose rockin’ movie book The Stewardess is Flying the Plane! got a coveted starred review from Publishers Weekly (“In a few words or […]
Something Nice; Synthetic Confusion Schedule
Posted on January 5, 2006 16 Comments
As a warning to all and sundry: Today is likely to be a day of schedules and announcements of a lit’ry sort, so if you don’t give a crap about any of that, you’ll want to run away until tomorrow, when I’m sure I’ll find something unrelated to rant about. First, as promised, something nice […]
Bainbridge Reads TGB
Posted on January 5, 2006 11 Comments
Stephen Bainbridge, bless his heart, says some nice things about The Ghost Brigades: A pre-release review copy of John Scalzi’s new novel The Ghost Brigades arrived yesterday. I started it late last night and barely managed to tear myself away at midnight to go to bed. I polished it off today over a long lunch. […]
Doin’ it For the Kids
Posted on January 4, 2006 29 Comments
You probably didn’t know this about me, but I have school spirit, yes, I do. I show it by conducting student interviews for the University of Chicago — which is to say when an applicant to the university wants an interview but can’t actually get to the school, they farm it out to alumni, and […]
How The Blogoverse Ends
Posted on January 3, 2006 14 Comments
So, the bad news is, according to this, I end my days homeless and pigeonholing passersby in increasingly desperate attempts to get their attention once the Internet collapses. The good news is, all my online friends are there with me. Go me!
Photoshop as Time Machine
Posted on January 3, 2006 21 Comments
Author Cherie Priest, whose Flickr-based exhibition streak is even wider than my own, recently posted a set of potential book jacket photos which feature her in a really excellent dress of the sort that you’d see on an ingenue in an MGM musical. So I fired up the Photoshop and gave one of the photos […]
I Write a Lot Here
Posted on January 3, 2006 12 Comments
I was curious just much I wrote for the Whatever in 2005, so I checked. Leaving out July, in which this space was taken over by my lovely and talented guest bloggers, and not counting what I wrote in comments, I wrote about 220,000 words here in 2005. To put this in perspective, the two […]
Just a Thought
Posted on January 2, 2006 39 Comments
Writers: Do you know of a word processor that has tabbed windows, a la Firefox? I’m in the process of organizing entries for Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded, and I was thinking how lovely it would be to be able to cut and paste text into several different open documents, without having to clutter […]
Testing Something
Posted on January 2, 2006 6 Comments
I’m checking out the new Performancing plugin for Firefox to see how well it works with the Whatever (I’ve gacked it from here). Consequently, this particular entry will be almost entirely devoid of any useful content whatsoever. But it will have this picture: And now I will post it to see what happens. If the […]
The Full Extent of My Personal Award Pimpage for 2006
Posted on January 2, 2006 8 Comments
I’ve actually gotten a couple of e-mails on this subject over the last several days, coinciding, I think, with a Hugo Award nomination ballot mailing, so I’ll go ahead and address it here and use this to refer people to if it comes up again. Should you be considering me for one of your Hugo/Campbell […]
Perfect Ending to a Perfect Day
Posted on January 1, 2006 18 Comments
I just registered the domain name “Schadenfreude.us.” Because, and maybe it’s just me, I think the word “Schadenfreude” might become useful in 2006.
OMW & TGB: SciFi Essentials Books for January
Posted on January 1, 2006
As many of you may remember, The Sci Fi Channel is promoting both Old Man’s War and The Ghost Brigades as their Sci Fi Essentials books for this month. This means that each gets a special page on the SciFi.com site, which includes an excerpt from the first chapter of each. So if you’ve not […]
OMW & TGB: SciFi Essentials Books for January
Posted on January 1, 2006 9 Comments
As many of you may remember, The Sci Fi Channel is promoting both Old Man’s War and The Ghost Brigades as their Sci Fi Essentials books for this month. This means that each gets a special page on the SciFi.com site, which includes an excerpt from the first chapter of each. So if you’ve not […]
Welcome to 2006!
Posted on January 1, 2006 28 Comments
So far I’ve spent the year doing entirely nothing. You?
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