Monthly Archives: October 2014
Hey, Remember When I Wrote I Won an Erotic Fan Fiction Contest Based on the Watchman Graphic Novel?
Posted on October 31, 2014 10 Comments
Well, the folks at Shipwreck (the group that puts these writing contests together) have posted my winning entry. It’s here. Warning: It’s very much NSFW, will probably be a little kinky/disturbing for those of you who aren’t kinky/fans of erotic fanfic, and if you haven’t read Watchmen (which you should, it’s terrific), or at least […]
Have a Happy Halloween or Athena Will Be Very Disappointed With You
Posted on October 31, 2014 19 Comments
And I don’t think you want to make her angry, do you?
Jian Ghomeshi and the Women He Knew
Posted on October 31, 2014 196 Comments
Some thoughts on Jian Ghomeshi, about whom I feel entitled to opine because I was once a guest on his show — talking about the little fundraising thing I did last year which included RAINN, an interview which now in retrospect is sadly ironic. (For those of you not up on this, Mr. Ghomeshi was a radio […]
“Lock In” by William Beckett: Now Available to Download!
Posted on October 31, 2014 4 Comments
You may recall that musician William Beckett created a fantastic song for my novel Lock In (and if you didn’t, here, have a listen). The song, also called “Lock In,” really captured the mood and tone of the novel in a way that I hoped it would, and I’m happy to say that even if […]
How My Week Went
Posted on October 31, 2014 11 Comments
It went very well, I thought. As I’ve noted, I went to Los Angeles in order to meet with TV and film folks and to pitch them some stuff (and also, well, me). Some of the things I pitched are even things I haven’t put into books yet! You can do that, apparently. I’m happy to […]
The Zombie Kristine Blauser Scalzi Wishes to Give You a Festive Halloween Kiss
Posted on October 31, 2014 16 Comments
Go on. It’ll be fine. I should note that she will want to kiss you directly on the brain. And she might chew through your skull to do it. But that’s okay! Look, she’s doing it to me right now and I have toj syabbgt that it asgbn’t effackebted meb at allygueruyreuiyrer;;;bieur’=- jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj .,
If This is Thursday, It Must Be Cleveland
Posted on October 30, 2014
And it is Thursday, at least here, and so here I am, in Cleveland, or more accurately its nearby neighbor Twinsburg, to talk to librarians. As I am a big fan of librarians as a general class, this is not exactly an onerous assignment. And then I drive home! Which is on the other side […]
The Big Idea: Tricia Sullivan
Posted on October 29, 2014 24 Comments
How do martial arts, motherhood and stray cats connect? As Tricia Sullivan explains in her Big Idea piece for Shadowboxer, the connection is real — and relevant to her novel. TRICIA SULLIVAN: When I started writing Shadowboxer in late 2008 I had three small children. I was breastfeeding the youngest. My abdominal muscles were shot. […]
Checking In
Posted on October 28, 2014
At the moment, taking a little breather on the Fox lot, on a bench underneath a shady tree. And then off to lunch with my agent, because one should always have lunch with one’s agent. It’s a nice if weird life. Hope yours is going well today, too.
Alive and Having Meetings
Posted on October 27, 2014
Just thought I’d check in and let you all know things are just lovely here in Los Angeles at the moment. Wish you were here! All of you! And maybe you are all here, on the 405. Because, the 405, man. What a mess.
Mostly Out For the Next Few Days
Posted on October 25, 2014
I’m getting up very early tomorrow morning to go to the airport for a trip that takes me first to Los Angeles, where I have two very solid days of business meetings, and then to Cleveland, where I am delivering a breakfast keynote to a conference of Ohio librarians. All of which is to say […]
New Books and ARCs, 10/24/14
Posted on October 24, 2014 36 Comments
A very fine collection of books and ARCs to show off this week. Let me know which ones you wish you had in your hands, down there in the comments.
French Cover of The Human Division
Posted on October 24, 2014 20 Comments
Pretty cool looking, I have to say. It’s a wrap-around; the front cover is on the right side of the image. A larger version is here.
Yes, Fine, I’ll (Ugh) Talk Some Politics For This Year
Posted on October 24, 2014 90 Comments
And here’s what I think of politics here in 2014: Nnnnnnnnggggggggghhh. Or, to put in perhaps more contemporary terms, 2014: The Year I Literally Just Could Not Even. Which is not to say that I’m not voting. I am voting. What I mean to say is that this year I don’t really feel anything other […]
How to Boycott Me, I Mean, REALLY Boycott Me
Posted on October 23, 2014 317 Comments
Ah, I see some GamerGaters are whining to Tor that I am being mean to them. Well, good luck with that tactic, kids. — John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 23, 2014 So a few days ago, it was suggested to a faction of the hot, pathetic misogynist mess known as GamerGate that launching a boycott of […]
The Big Idea: Alex Flynn
Posted on October 22, 2014 23 Comments
Superheroes are fun to think about, but superheroes are often sort of one-dimensional, cardboard characters. In the real world superheroes would be more complex — and like real human beings possibly not perfect. For the novel Misshapes, Alex Flynn uses literary x-ray vision to go behind the “super” and look at a world these folks […]
I’m Travelling to Chicago Today, So Please Enjoy This Fan Art of The Last Colony
Posted on October 21, 2014 13 Comments
It’s the scene with John Perry and General Gau, I expect. It’s by DeviantArt user “Sharksden,” whose art (including this) you can find here. And that’s it from me here today, because as noted I am traveling to Chicago, where I will be doing my very last official Lock In tour stop, at the Seminary […]
It’s All Beautiful and Nothing Lasts
Posted on October 20, 2014 55 Comments
“It’s all beautiful and nothing lasts.” It’s a phrase that showed up in a dream of mine last night, as something I said to my wife as we were crossing a street in a big city. The street was where her father’s family’s farm used to be, in the dream — something that had some […]
The Doubleclicks Tell You How to Do Kickstarter
Posted on October 20, 2014 4 Comments
And they’ve done an unsurprisingly thorough job of it. If you’ve ever wanted to do your own Kickstarter/crowdfunded project, you’re going to want to read this. What I particularly like is that it emphasizes the fact that Kickstarting a project is a tremendous amount of work, which is a thing I think a lot of […]
Hey, Did I Mention I’m Gonna Take the Weekend Off?
Posted on October 18, 2014 9 Comments
No? Well, look, I just did. See you Monday!
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