Pre-Tour Procedural Bits

Posted on August 25, 2014    Posted by John Scalzi      4 Comments

A bit of housekeeping here for folks.

First, as most of you know, tomorrow I will be starting a fairly long book tour, one that ends on September 20 (there are a couple of dates past that, but they don’t require me being out on the road on a more or less constant basis). Here’s what me being on the road will mean in terms of this site and being able to contact me.

1. Comments will (generally) be turned off on Whatever from 5pm (Eastern) tonight until September 21st. I’ve previously explained the reasoning for this here. Comments will be left on for Big Idea posts, and occasional posts for when I have a bit of time to chat. Regular commenting here will resume September 21st.

2. All September Big Idea slots will be assigned by the 8pm (Eastern) tonight. If you have not received a September slot by then, then you may assume the slots are all filled.

3. From tonight at 5pm (Eastern) until September 21st, I will be reading email but NOT responding to most of it. Unless you are my agent, editor, publicist, wife, child or friend I’m trying to schedule a tour meet-up with, for the next four weeks, the chance of me answering your email is pretty slim. This is mostly because I’ll be traveling and being a performing monkey, and will still have to fit business and writing into the times I’m when I’m not doing wither of those two things. So responding to email goes way down.

As noted, I will still be reading the email that is not spam, so if for some reason you feel compelled to send me an e-mail while I’m on tour, go right ahead. Just don’t expect a response. If it is something you want a response for, I’d suggest waiting until September 21st to send it.

My email address will have an auto-responder on it through September 20th, reminding people of the stuff I just mentioned above.

4. While I plan to be writing here on Whatever, for the length of the tour, I’m most likely to be found on Twitter. It’s simply more congenial to the “I am rushing around the country what airport am I in now is this Denver I think it’s Denver honestly I have no idea where I am ” lifestyle I will be living the next few weeks. I have my tweetstream over in the Whatever side bar, and of course, you can follow along on Twitter either by following me or visiting my Twitter page.

That’s the housekeeping for now. If you have questions, drop them into the comments (until, uh, 5pm tonight).