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The Effects of Tour Brain

Posted on June 24, 2012 29 Comments

At the Fourth Street Fantasy convention this weekend, friends and fellow writers have been asking me how I’m doing. My answer is “things are great, but I have tour brain.” To which they nod and offer me sympathetic smiles. They know from tour brain. But maybe the rest of you don’t, so let me explain. […]

Fuzzy Nation and Agent to the Stars: Audie Nominated

Posted on February 20, 2012 11 Comments

So, here’s some good news for me today (and hey, I can use some good news at the moment): My books Fuzzy Nation and Agent to the Stars have both been nominated for an Audie Award. The Audies are the audiobook equivalent to the Grammys, in that distinction in audiobook achievement is given in many […]

Book Title Announcement

Posted on November 29, 2011 24 Comments

Some of you may recall that in August I announced that I would have a book collection of my film columns out, in conjunction with the Boskone 49 science fiction convention in February, published by NESFA Press. That book now has a title: 24 Frames Into the Future: Scalzi on Science Fiction Film Nice, right? […]

The Computers of Scalziland

Posted on May 25, 2012 62 Comments

Since the disappearance (and eventual reappearance) of the MacBook Air, and the emergency purchase of the most recent Acer netbook, there has been some curiosity in among Whateverians about the current state of electronics at the Scalzi Compound. While I choose not to go into complete detail on the grounds that I would hate to […]

2011 in Review; Looking Ahead to 2012

Posted on December 30, 2011 28 Comments

Objectively speaking about the world at large, 2011 was about as crappy a year as I can remember existing in my entire adult life; a genuine clusterbang of monumental proportions. But on a personal and professional level, it was really good: Fuzzy Nation popped onto the New York Times best seller list and received some […]

My Thoughts on Book Tours

Posted on April 13, 2012 41 Comments

Via Metafilter, I found and read this article on The Awl in which several authors (and a couple of publicists) discussed the pros and cons of book tours. As someone who tours and otherwise does lots of author appearances I found it interesting, with some of the points lining up with my own experience and […]

Let It Not Be Said That I Am Not Actively Fulfilling My Obligations

Posted on September 22, 2011 64 Comments

For the ukulele performance, Redshirts auction winner Brad Roberts said that any tune I favored will do. Well, this particular tune is pretty easy (four chords! Over and over!) and I know it reasonably well. So there it is. And before anyone asks, yes, if I do make to 4th Street Fantasy as planned next […]

The Big Idea: Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

Posted on June 8, 2012 9 Comments

I have a shameful confession to make: I owe Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan some books. See, many years ago, they won a Web award of some sort for Go Fug Yourself, their righteously snarky fashion blog, and part of their prize package was a couple of books from me. And I never sent them. […]

Meet the Library

Posted on October 25, 2011 26 Comments

For those who were curious about the institution I had hoped to help last month with my Redshirts auction, here’s what the Bradford Public Library looks like (from the outside at least). It’s small but mighty, and also very helpfully labeled in large, sans serif letters, just in case one is confused as to what […]

This is What a Nice Guy I Am

Posted on September 9, 2011 54 Comments

I was going to mention the fact that I printed up some personal galleys of Redshirts, to give to my wife and in-laws and maybe might have an extra copy that I will at some point in the reasonably near future auction off for charity, although not yet because I have to figure out which […]

München Says Hello

Posted on October 21, 2011 20 Comments

And they look happy to see you! Folks, the München event was fantastic. Another great reading in German from another great actor (whose name, I believe, is Alexander Meiler, although I may have messed up the last name, so if anyone who was there can correct me, please let me know), a fine crowd, more […]

One Additional Library Thought

Posted on September 21, 2011 20 Comments

I’ve had a couple of people e-mail me to say that although the Redshirts library auction is over, they’re still interested in donating a little money to my library, and wanted to know how to do it. The answer is just to write a check to “Bradford Public Library” and send it to the address […]

Various & Sundry 9/23/11

Posted on September 23, 2011 43 Comments

What’s up? Well: * For those folks still interested in the follow-up to the Redshirts auction will be happy to know that I met with the library folks today and they are very happy about everything that’s happened, and that they are making plans on how to put that money to its best use for […]

Confusion Convention Recap

Posted on January 23, 2012 16 Comments

My Confusion convention weekend started a bit inauspiciously; when Krissy and I arrived at the hotel the con was at, we noticed that I had managed to leave my suitcase behind, meaning that as far as clothing was concerned, I had what I was wearing and that was all. This precipitated a moment of panic […]

Tor/Forge to Go DRM-Free By July: Immediate Thoughts

Posted on April 24, 2012 132 Comments

This is pretty big publishing news: Tom Doherty Associates, an imprint of Macmillan and the publisher of most of my science fiction work, has announced they plan to ditch DRM (Digital Rights Management, i.e., the stuff that keeps you from moving or copying your eBooks) entirely. Here’s the release that’s going out about it. Tom […]

“Questions for a Soldier” in Subterranean Magazine #8

Posted on September 15, 2011 21 Comments

For a number of years now, the only way you could get “Questions for a Soldier,” the first short story I wrote set in the Old Man’s War universe — and which features John Perry making an early appearance on the colony of Huckleberry — was to get the increasingly rare chapbook version, which is […]

Tribble’s Tribbles

Posted on October 22, 2011 14 Comments

This is Conrad Tribble, the US Consul General in Munich, and yes, those are tribbles that he is holding and/or wearing, proving that he has a good sense of humor about his name. Consul General Tribble and his wife Christina were gracious enough to hold a brunch today in my honor, which was attended by […]

SFContario Appearance Schedule for This Weekend

Posted on November 14, 2011 11 Comments

Starting Thursday I will be in Toronto — one of North America’s very finest cities! — as the International Guest of Honor for SFContario 2, joining the estimable Karl Schroeder, Gardner Dozois and musical guests Toyboat, who are also guests of honor. If you are going, or were thinking of going but were wondering what […]

Station Identification: Whatever

Posted on January 1, 2012 1 Comment

Introduction You are now visiting “Whatever.” It is a site written by John Scalzi and Athena Scalzi. It has been in existence since 1998. It is as a consequence one of the longest-running personal sites on the Web. It is generally updated daily. It is about whatever the two of them feel like writing on. […]

The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Five: Competent People

Posted on November 5, 2011 29 Comments

There are lots of different ways you can tell you’ve officially become a grown up. One of them for me was recognizing that not only didn’t I have the bandwidth, either time- or intelligence-wise, to do every single thing out there in the world, I didn’t have the desire, either. This was actually a thing […]

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