92 Comments on “Fuzzy Nation US Book Tour Dates”

1. Bummer, no New England events. Somday, hopefully – have fun at the other stops!

2. I think cake should be a condition of you agreeing to show up at Books &Co. Just sayin’. If we can give you a scalzi of Coke Zero when it’s NOT your birthday, they can sure as hell pony up a cake.

3. I look forward to seeing you in Seattle.

4. you’re right. It sucks. East Coast hater.

5. Hellooooo Los Angeles! I am so there.

6. You’ll be in Salt Lake City right before my anniversary. I wonder what my wife would think if I told her that I want to get Fuzzy Nation and go to the signing as an anniversary present….

7. A.J.:

   THAT YOU WERE THE MOST WONDERFUL HUSBAND EVER.

8. In your February 27th post “Travelin’ Man” you mentioned that you had been or would be in Austin. I figured that it would be part of the book tour, but I’m wrong. Have you already been in Austin this year? Or will you be in Austin later this year?

9. No Chicago? Poop. I know you were just here last month and all. I guess I’ll have to wait till next time. Hopefully, I can hold out.

10. See you in PDX! Bring an umbrella.

11. The cake is a lie

12. See you in San Francisco!

13. w00t! Looking forward to it, ticket and all. You’re pretty tightly packed but you need to swing by Archie McPhee’s while you’re in Seattle. It’s the local bacon mecca (if that’s not too contradictory and/or sacreligious).

14. Cake, huh? I was thinking the store might serve a nice hearty stew.

15. Lexington? Eww, everyone knows Lexington sucks. Louisville is a much better city. These rivalries are important, and my cities damn bookstores have chosen the wrong side by not bringing you here.

16. It’s for things like these that I totally miss living in Seattle.

    Except for the part where we totally have better weather. During part of the year. Like maybe two months.

17. Can’t wait to see you at Powells Books in Beavtown!

    My day was good, but just got a little brighter!

18. Oh well, at least Toronto got to hear you premiere the first couple of chapters last year.

19. The city made me take out all of my bushes. Except the berberis, for some reason. But no one in his right mind would lurk in those. You’ll have to let me know what your preferred lurking medium is before you come back to the KC area next time, and I’ll see what I can do to accommodate.

20. Le sigh. To celebrate your birthday in Dayton by seeing you, or to celebrate my birthday in Dayton by seeing the Hamvention. It’d be just too exciting to be able to do all of them at once. I guarantee I’d die happy. Or at least exhausted.

21. Good coverage on this tour – too bad I have to go back to school in May. I will have an extra piece of pie (NOT CAKE) on the 10th, just for you and your new book!

22. Wow! Looks like a demanding tour schedule. Hope you enjoy yourself on it.

23. A SPECIAL THING? That only those of us in Seattle get to see? Dammit, now I’m all curious and stuff. ;)

24. So, does the Seattle surprise somehow involve the number 23?

25. Hmm. I want to see the Seattle event… Kane 110 is NOT small. But hey, $5 for ARCs of the new book … er, whoops, that’s how rumors start. Isn’t it?

26. Salt Lake City? EXCELLENT. World domination plans are coming along NICELY.

    I mean, welcome! We’ll have a party! Or something! Woo!

27. No Texas stops ! Is Texas not the big bastion of SciFi ?

28. Awesome. I knew working at UW would come in handy eventually. For what it’s worth, the UW Bookstore took my pre-order for FN today, even though it’s not yet the 10th.

29. No Colorado. A single tear falls down my cheek…

30. Yup, once again, no love for New York. I’m, once again, forced to accept that I live in a little podunk backwater.

    ::shame::

31. Damn. I don’t know where I’ll be in May. I current AM in Seattle, home of the ticketed event that is getting that sekrit thing that Scalzi promised, but I might have to move. (I honestly don’t know yet–depends on where husband gets a job or if we can stay in the area.)

32. People of Seattle, beware! He may be planning to bring a big fish to toss around. He may even be planning to put the fish in a flight suit. In other words: IT’S A TRAP!

33. Any plans to take

34. Woohoo! It’s about time a first-class author decided that we read books in Salt Lake. Also, we now have In-N-Out for your dining pleasure.

    I look forward to seeing you sign my copy of Fuzzy Nation.

35. Woops…hit send to soon. Any plans to take a quick trip North to Vancouver from Seattle or do I need to plan a border crossing?

36. Nathan @ #30, if you think you live in a podunk backwater, try Honolulu. We never get author book tours. I imagine the authors would love to come, too. It’s those penny-pinching publishers who keep them away.

37. While in Seattle, you could get a burger from Dicks’ Drive In, a local favorite. I’ll put them up against In-n-Out any day..

38. I am excited that the U Bookstore clearly anticipates a large crowd, since they’re holding this event in Kane Hall 110 – which is a very large auditorium! Looking forward to your Seattle visit!

39. Jeff@32 – you say that as if tossing fish was new to us… http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestvoices/2009324503_pike_place_market_fish_tossing.html

40. When I lived in Salt Lake I used to love going to Sam Weller’s…it’s a great bookstore. Don’t live there now, but I do live in Seattle. Hmm…five bucks. I don’t get it: did you kick Duane in the knees last time you were here?

41. What Linkmeister said. We get only a couple of significant writer conferences yearly, and it’s really potluck on the people who can attend. Anything else is purely by chance, and the reading public would quickly go broke if we tried to pay for every writer we’d like to see out here, even if it was just offering a trip to HI in exchange for a few hours of speaking with fans.

42. Hope to see you in LA, Scalzi!

43. Hmmmm. I am a New Englander now. I think the closest your coming to us is DC which is possibly doable but only if the government doesn’t cut budgets and create mass catastrophe known as lay-offs.
    So, in hopes of maybe getting what will be one of the (I’m sure) “greatest newest and bestest reboots ever” books signed I have one question in mind.
    If there will be dancing, will there be stilettos worn?…just checking… :)

44. Just wish that St. Louis or KC had been on the list….

    dag napt….

45. Any idea when you will be at Jay and Mary’s Book Center in Troy? If not can I get a signed copy there? I prefer to shop locally.

46. I am psyched to hear you’ll be in San Francisco! I recently had the pleasure of meeting Patrick Rothfuss and Gail Carriger there, and now I get to go to a John Scalzi signing as well? WIN.

    I wonder how many books I’ll be allowed to get signed without going through the line again. I already own 7 of them..

47. rick@39: No, I say it in the spirit of friendly mock-mockery as someone well acquainted with your piscatorial shenanigans. I just don’t believe any of the fish currently or previously airborne wear space gear or hold military rank.

48. What about Europe? Any chance of seeing you in the future around here?
    You’ll love Spanish food, I promise ;)

49. I don’t think that’s actually interpretive dance he’d be doing if he tried lurking in my pericanthus bushes. But it might resemble it.

50. re: Seattle and Dicks and other hamburger choices- I like Dick’s but I don’t think I’d put them in the ring with In-N-Out. (Maybe Red Mill, which Scalzi should visit merely for the Bacon Tower. Red Mill was even featured on Man Vs. Food. Here is a picture of the legendary Bacon Tower! http://putative.typepad.com/putative/2005/08/literally_a_mou.html )

51. Man, I really hate driving into San Francisco. I may have to do it, however.

52. Lexington gets a date, but not Atlanta? Hmmm. I’ve probably never been sorrier that Mark Stevens’ store went out of business. **He** would have gotten Scalzi for us. (His store is where I met Anne McCaffrey. )

    All this burger talk makes me think: Given how central the burger restaurant on Phoenix Station was to the plot of OMW, this tour needs an “Offical Burger of Whatever.com Contest” feature….

53. Let’s see, Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus…Oh fine, you hate Cleveland. We got over Lebron, we’ll deal with this snub.

54. Great authors never come here. Well, one did, Patterson, he is one cool dude. But no King, and now now Scalzi. What do you guys have against North Carolina??

55. I appreciate the challenges that you would having adding dates.

    I have only these little observations to make: 1. Atlanta is bigger than Lexington, so if only one southern city was scheduled perhaps Lexington wasn’t the best choice (Not hating on Lexington here! Only making an observation.); 2. Altanta hosts DragonCon every year, and so has a proven base of folks who are into and willing to travel for the experience of meeting authors of neat stuff. 3. Since I’ve lived here, Stephen King, Richard Patterson, Anne Rice (when people still cared), Caitlin Kiernan, F. Paul Wilson, etc etc etc have had very successful and well-attended signings in the metro ATL. Lots of books sold at those, I’m guessing….

    I’m just sayin’.

56. And Kathy@54: I drove to Charlotte to see Neil Gaiman, so fair is fair :)

57. What is it with you and Rothfuss not going further south than Lexington, KY? Is there some sort of Southern fear in you Northern folk. :)

58. I know you can’t add dates, and even the locations are not under your control, but in the future, if you ever can add Minneapolis, please do so.

    There’s a wonderful bookstore here devoted to SF & Fantasy. Its one of the larger in the US, if not the largest, and has a great selection. It’s where I bought your books. So hey, visit us in the frozen north if you can one day, and hunt down this bookstore. (I won’t mention the name, since I’m not going to appear as spam, but a quick google search for SF and Minneapolis should turn it up.)

59. It seems kind of odd to re-use the Stephen King blurb from The Last Colony. It bugged the hell out of a friend of mine, he saw it as a weird, random shot at King rather than praise of your writing skill. Out of curiosity, do you ever choose or suggest any of the blurbs?

60. No.

61. Awesome. Digging the Cincinnati date. It was at that Joseph Beth’s that Old Man’s War was recommended to me.

62. Hey John, the address for the Columbus Barnes & Noble is 1598 N. High – somebody transposed the numbers on you. Though if you’d rather do your book signing on the street corner between La Bamba Mexican restaurant and a Fifth Third Bank branch, that’s OK too – it’s still on campus after all.

    Looking forward to seeing you in town.

63. No Osaka? Aww, man…. You’re going to be on the west coast as it is, what’s another 12 hours on an airplane? Huh? Huh? C’mon, I’ll treat you to all-you-can-eat yakiniku.

64. Woo hoo, that B&N in LA is just down the street…there’s a fabulous movie theater in that part of the mall (it bridges across the street, the B&N and the Theater are all alone on that block) the food court is yum…there’s a little place called East Wind, Korean stuff and the Mom makes all the sides.

    Let me know if you need anything while you are here, I’m about 2 miles up Pico from the mall :)

    Regina

65. Damn it; you’ll be in LA, I’m supposed to be in NC for a wedding. I’d rather see you in person than drive across the country. Oh well.

66. Coming to Japan anytime soon? Sado Island, Japan? No? Well, OK.

67. Well darn, no Dallas appearance. Figured you might come down this way, since our local rag (the Dallas Morning News) provided that snappy blurb for the cover.

    Or better yet, arrange one in the north Dallas suburb of Plano sometime. Julie Barrett and I are both up in that neck of the woods, so it’s obviously the source of the higher quality Scalzi fans in the area ;)

68. Well, it sucks that the NJ/NY stop for your tour seems to be MISSING.

    What the hell is your publisher thinking?

69. After dancing around my office like a sugar-crazed child, I write to say, hurray, Scalzi in Seattle! And also, to offer my dog for hugs, if you’re missing Daisy at that time. In addition, if a person was to bake cupcakes for you and your entourage, what would be a good flavor?

70. I know where I’ll be at 7pm on 10 May! Should I wait and buy a book there? Or would one recommend preordering through the Books & Co?

71. You’ll be in SF the day of the Bay to Breakers mass run/walk/shuffle across the city. You should have time to do the run and get back to the Mission in time for the signing.

72. I’m another reader who’s glad to see the PDX date. That particular Powell’s Books (A book store with a union, by the way) is a great place for a reading/signing. It is ever so slightly in the burbs so there is plenty of free parking and absolutely no Morlocks after dark!

73. Have to say, it was quite entertaining to see the look on the poor bookstore employee’s face last night as I stood in the UW bookstore, demanding my Scalzi tickets. “But the website said!!!!” I came home, saw the edited date when tickets will be available, and sent a small timid apology to the poor kid. *sigh* guess I’ll have to wait two whole months to get my Scalzi fix.

74. When you’re in LA at the B&N on Pico, you’ll be right across the street from The Apple Pan, a classic Los Angeles burger joint. Worth a visit.

75. Ninety minutes away, and you’re going to be there on the one day a week I work. *pout*

76. Too bad you don’t get to stay in KY over the weekend. WonderFest is in Louisville that weekend, and we’d love to see you there. But, alas, you’ll be in LA the next day.

77. This just reminds me how much I enjoyed, “Little Fuzzy.” I have equal excitement and trepidation to see what you’ve done. :)

78. Ever think you’ll come to Canada?

79. Don’t you think you would like to come out to the East Crust? You can stomp around your old stompin’ grounds and appear in a nice bookstore in DC. Even here on the uncivilized coast, we still enjoy a good Scalzi tome when we can get them (the passenger pigeons get so slow, it takes a while).

80. *lashes self with wet noodles* Obviously, my reading skills are not up to par. I’ll look forward to seeing you at the Nebula Awards signing.

81. May 20th sounds like a zoo but I’ll do my best to make it. Couldn’t be worse than an average trip on the DC Metro.

82. Since you are going to be in Los Angeles on May 15 you might consider going to the JPL open house in the morning in Pasadena.

83. Sorry it didn’t work out for you to come to SF in SF – we and your reps tried! We’ll look forward to seeing you at Borderlands thought – I’ll put the event out in my SF in SF newsletter as well, should be a great event!!

84. Bought my ticket yesterday for Seattle event and pre-ordered FN. UW will mail ticket and book to me on May 10. Bookstore said Kane Hall can hold 700 people. Authors previously booked at this hall averaged 300-400 people at their events. Hopefully the power of the internets will bring a “standing room only” crowd on May 17.

85. I’d love to have dinner or lunch with you while you’re in Portland if you have time.

86. Come to NC or DragonCon please

87. How about Memphis, TN?

88. *sigh*
    Nobody ever comes to Albany…

    …not that I can blame them.

89. I was in Dayton tonight, and there *was* cake! No Lie! Krissy brought a birthday cake, *AND* cupcakes for everybody! John tweeted w/a picture of cupcake-laden table. It was a lovely evening, we sang Happy Birthday to John, and were all sworn to secrecy before he read a piece from the new writing. I feel like I joined a special, not-so-secret society. And I got to sit next to Krissy & her Mom, and chat while waiting for the signing to begin. I am one lucky person, yes I am.

90. Greg, if you make the drive up, Apple Pan is on me. Seriously.

91. It was great in Dayton,my wife & I had a wonderful time with cupcakes & all. John,you were great & you are right you have an awesome wife!!! Your Mother-in-law ain’t bad as well. I will try to get the pictures up as quickly as I can. Thanks.

92. Oh no! Your Seattle date is the same night as the Syttende Mai parade! This is a really tough call.