Monthly Archives: December 2022

But Wait, What About the Scalzi Pets?

Some of you were outraged I didn’t post my favorite photos of the pets yesterday along with the humans. That’s because I was going to give them their own post! First, Zeus, who is gone but definitely not forgotten. Next, this adorable two-fer of Sugar and Charlie. They are cuddlebuddies, when Charlie isn’t being a […]

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My Professional 2022

I mean, it was pretty good, actually! Here’s some of the highlights: The Kaiju Preservation Society: It got three starred reviews in the trades, was a New York Times bestseller in two separate media categories (once for print & ebook, then again for audio), has been optioned for television and has already been an award […]

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Behold, the New Computer, Late 2022 Edition

My 2018 vintage desktop was beginning to show its age in various ways, including having an OS I could no longer update and which thus became a non-trivial security hazard, and by requiring increasingly byzantine rituals to open and operate different games and productivity apps. Also, the latest generation of CPUs and GPUs are out, […]

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Twenty-Four

My dad stole the title “24” on my actual birthday, so I have to use the words for the numbers, instead. Guess that’s a consequence of not posting my birthday post on my birthday, but let’s not dwell on it. Anyways, I turned 24 a couple days ago (thank you all very much for the birthday wishes), […]

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The Worthless Billionaires of 2022

(Photo: The Royal Society, used under Creative Commons. Additional photoediting by me) If I have one wish coming out of 2022, it’s that this is the year — finally — when the myth of the assumed competence and virtue of billionaires is buried in a shallow grave down by the river. 2022 was chock-a-block full […]

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24

I’ve told this story before, but it’s worth telling again: When Athena was very small, she didn’t know what day was her birthday, and the way she found out was by us bursting into her bedroom in the morning with a cake and singing “Happy Birthday” to her. Well, she knows when her birthday is […]

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From 1999: “I Love You, My Pet”

Athena’s 24th birthday is tomorrow (don’t say “happy birthday” in the comments yet, she’s writing a piece tomorrow where the birthday wishes will be more appropriate), and on the occasion of it being the day before her birthday, I thought I would unearth an article I wrote about her in the Washington Post when she […]

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Process Notes on Starter Villain

As I sometimes do when I finish writing a novel, here are some behind-the-scenes notes on Starter Villain, which I have now completed and which will be available (knocks wood) in August September of 2023. 1. The book took longer to complete than expected because in June I got COVID, and while my physical symptoms […]

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