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The Dispatcher: Travel By Bullet Signed, Limited Print Edition Now Available for Pre-Order
Posted on January 9, 2023 8 Comments
Yes, the third installment of the New York Times best selling Dispatcher series will soon be available in a signed, limited hardcover edition from Subterranean Press. If you don’t know what that means, it means that every copy of the book will be signed by me, and that we’re only making a couple thousand of […]
Meanwhile, These Two Buttheads
Posted on January 7, 2023 10 Comments
Smudge and Charlie were playing around this morning, and at one point, Charlie was playing in a manner I thought was maybe a little too rough, so I told her to back off. She came up to me to apologize, at which point Smudge launched an unprovoked attack on her butt. So I said to […]
A Slow Day at the Scalzi Compound
Posted on January 6, 2023 8 Comments
Sugar speaks for the entire household today; it’s been a day of a whole lot of nothing. Part of that is due to at least one member of the clan being under the weather, which necessitated a lot of rest, and everyone else just going along with the vibe. Don’t worry, we’re all fine, it’s […]
Spoiler: It Wasn’t a Tornado, It Just Looks Like It Was
Posted on January 5, 2023 17 Comments
You may recall that we purchased the house next to The Old Church, which was in poor repair, with an eye toward bringing it down and doing other things with the land. Today was the day it was torn down; here is the wreckage. It will not, I promise, be there long. But while it […]
For Your Consideration: “My Year of Dicks”
Posted on January 4, 2023 8 Comments
My ridiculously talented pal Pamela Ribon, who came up with me in the (now very) old school “Online Journals” community, and has made a name for herself writing novels, humor, television and some animated films you have heard of, has an animated short titled My Year of Dicks, which follows a teenage Pamie in her […]
What I Have Eligible for Award Consideration This Year, 2023 Edition
Posted on January 3, 2023 6 Comments
Actually a fair amount! Best Novel: The Kaiju Preservation Society, Tor Books, March 2022, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, editor; Best Novella: The Dispatcher: Travel By Bullet, Audible Studios, September 2022, Steve Feldberg, editor; Best Short Story: “Grizzly Bear Conflict Manager” (April 2022) and “End of the Year PR Missives From Scrooge & Marley” (December 2022), both […]
Happy New Year!
Posted on January 1, 2023 19 Comments
We rang it in, literally. (I did a poll on Twitter asking if I should ring the church bell at midnight. 91% of respondents said yes. So…) — JS
Closing Thoughts on 2022 + Thoughts on 2023
Posted on December 31, 2022 22 Comments
2022 is not going to go down as a vintage year in most people’s minds, and reasonably so — to be frank, very few years since 2017 have been exactly what I would call stellar — but it had its moments, both globally and personally. I have already noted my professional year, and on a […]
But Wait, What About the Scalzi Pets?
Posted on December 31, 2022 11 Comments
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 […]
The Scalzis in 2022
Posted on December 30, 2022 10 Comments
We clean up okay. Also, if you’re curious as to which is my favorite picture of me and Krissy together this year, it’s this one: Yup, that’s us! — JS
My Professional 2022
Posted on December 29, 2022 11 Comments
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 […]
Some Things I Liked in 2022
Posted on December 28, 2022 29 Comments
As 2022 heads out of the door, here are some things I liked in it, including entertainment, tech, life and other stuff. This is in no particular order: Everything Everywhere All At Once: Yes, I know, me and every other nerd in the world, but look, sometimes the nerds are right. The film is anarchic […]
Behold, the New Computer, Late 2022 Edition
Posted on December 28, 2022 30 Comments
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, […]
The Worthless Billionaires of 2022
Posted on December 27, 2022 42 Comments
(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 […]
In Which Sugar the Cat Accurately Characterizes the Soporific Liminality of the Post-Christmas Week
Posted on December 26, 2022 4 Comments
“I could get up and do something, but… why?” Excellent question, Sugar. Let’s both nap on it and see if we achieve any clarity on the matter. — JS
Whatever Best of 2022
Posted on December 24, 2022 2 Comments
I wouldn’t say 2022 went by quickly, but I will say that I’m still surprised we’re at the end of it. I feel like there should be at least a couple more months to go in the year, because, you know. I had plans. But here we are anyway. And here’s my annual list of […]
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Posted on December 23, 2022 36 Comments
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 […]
New Books and ARCs, 12/23/22
Posted on December 23, 2022 13 Comments
Here it is, the final stack of new books and ARCs for 2022 — and a pretty good one to usher the year out on. What here would like to take with you into 2023? — JS
From 1999: “I Love You, My Pet”
Posted on December 22, 2022 13 Comments
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 […]
A Holiday Gift For You: “End of the Year PR Missives From Scrooge & Marley”
Posted on December 22, 2022 15 Comments
Earlier in the month I promised that if Whatever readers (and others) helped to get the Locus Magazine fundraiser to $75k by the time their fundraiser closed, I would write a Christmas story, and if it got to $85k in the same timeframe, I’d throw in an audio version as well. It hit the $75k […]
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