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December 2015

  1. 2015 and Me
  2. 2015 in Scamperbeastery
  3. What Passes For Snow, December 2015
  4. Insulting Things I Called People on Twitter Today: A Collection
  5. The Year in (Non-Kitten) Pets, 2015
  6. The Big Idea: Erin M. Evans
  7. I Ruin Everything But Mostly Science Fiction
  8. The Big Idea: Lawrence M. Schoen
  9. Very Important News About My 2016 Novel Release (and Other Fiction Plans)
  10. Top Ten Whatever Posts for 2015, Plus 2015 Social Media Stats
  11. And Now, A Personal Ranking of Beatles Albums
  12. Sunsets of 2015: A Dusky Retrospective
  13. The Best Sportball T-Shirt Ever Made
  14. Fun on Twitter, 2015
  15. My Christmas Gift This Year
  16. Merry Kittenmas From the Scamperbeasts
  17. This Year’s Selection of Christmas Stories
  18. Whatever Best of 2015
  19. By Request: A Spoiler-Filled Discussion Thread for The Force Awakens
  20. How I Am Able to Forgive the Absolutely Appalling Science in the Most Recent (and Indeed Every) Star Wars Film
  21. Happy Athenamas to All
  22. Note: Today Is My Last Productive Day of the Year
  23. The Scamperbeasts Pose, 12/21/15
  24. Interview With Santa’s Reindeer Wrangler
  25. Seeing The Academy Is
  26. Dad Punk Christmas Carols
  27. My Non-Spoilery Review of The Force Awakens
  28. My World is Awesome
  29. Cat/Kitten Integration Update
  30. Off With Their Comments
  31. I Was Gonna Write Some Things About Stuff But Then I Didn’t, So: Look! Kitten!
  32. In My Copious Spare Time I Make Fake Album Covers for My Kittens’ Fake Band
  33. A Personal Top 10 of Things That Are Not Titles to Christmas Songs and/or Lifetime Holiday Movies and Honestly I Don’t Understand Why
  34. This is What December 14, 2015 Looks Like in Ohio
  35. The Best Thing Ever, December 13 2015 Edition
  36. A Saturday Evening Blast From the Past
  37. On the Asking of Special Holiday Favors From Me
  38. New Books and ARCs, 12/11/15
  39. I Was There. This Is How It Was
  40. I Didn’t Get My Act Together to Update Earlier Today, So By Way of Compensation Here Are the Scamperbeasts Playing With a Coke Zero Box
  41. And Now, a Reminder That Today is the Last Day to Order Signed, Personalized Books From Me for the Holidays, and So You’ll Remember, Here Are the Scamperbeasts
  42. The Big Idea: Carol Berg
  43. Kitten With Guitar
  44. Eight Things About Donald Trump
  45. I’m Alive
  46. The Kittens Sign Off for the Weekend
  47. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 12/4/15
  48. The Big Idea: Joseph Wallace
  49. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2015, Day Five: Charities
  50. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2015, Day Four: Fan Favorites
  51. One Month of the Scamperbeasts
  52. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2015, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More
  53. STAR WARS EPISODE 3.14159: THE AWKWARD HOLIDAY GET-TOGETHER
  54. The Big Idea: Molly Crabapple
  55. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2015, Day Two: Non-Traditionally Published Books

November 2015

  1. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2015, Day One: Traditionally Published Books
  2. The Stamos Connection
  3. Poverty and the Appropriation Thereof
  4. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2015 Starts Monday!
  5. Spice Takes Over the Doggy Bed, 11/27/15
  6. Athena, Thanksgiving 2015
  7. The Deal Is Done
  8. A (Science Fictional) Thanksgiving Prayer for You
  9. The Big Idea: Michael Livingston
  10. In Which I Select a Current GOP Presidential Candidate to Vote For, 2015 Edition
  11. Not Sure This Counts as the Actual First Snowfall of the Season
  12. Ten Thoughts on the Steam Controller
  13. Announcement: The Kittens Have Official Names
  14. Frightened, Ignorant and Cowardly is No Way to Go Through Life, Son
  15. The Big Idea: Martin Rose
  16. An Announcement Regarding Award Consideration for 2015 Work of Mine
  17. In Which The Doubleclicks Tell You What an Awful Person I Am — In Song!
  18. How You Should Vote for the Final Round of the 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards, SF Category
  19. The Big Idea: Matt Mikalatos
  20. I Was Busy Today With the Dentist and the Accountant, So Here is a Kitten Picture Instead of Me Blathering
  21. Kittens are Kittening
  22. Paris
  23. New Books and ARCs, 11/13/15
  24. FitBit Update
  25. On the Sidelines of an Uproar
  26. What Ten Years Looks Like
  27. Size Matters Not
  28. Self Promotion, on “Dear Veronica”
  29. The Big Idea: William Shunn
  30. TEoAT is a Goodreads Choice Awards Semifinalist + Thoughts on Awards in General
  31. Kitten Update, 11/10/15
  32. The Big Idea: James Renner
  33. How to Get Signed and Personalized Scalzi Books for the Holidays, 2015
  34. For Those of You Asking About Zeus
  35. The Big Idea: Lisa Goldstein
  36. Lopsided Cat Followup
  37. No, I Don’t Have a Second Gig as a Set Dresser
  38. Lopsided Cat, 2000 – 2015
  39. New Books and ARCs, 11/6/15
  40. Kitten Update, 11/6/15
  41. The Big Idea: Emma Newman
  42. Kitten Update, 11/5/15
  43. The Big Idea: Kate Elliott
  44. Post-Election Day Thoughts, 2015
  45. Kitten Update, 11/4/15
  46. The Big Idea: Jason Denzel
  47. In Other Cat News
  48. Kitten Update 11/3/15
  49. “The End of All Things” an Opening Round Nominee for the Goodreads Choice Awards
  50. The Big Idea: Adam Christopher
  51. By Request: Kitten Video
  52. Your Kitten Pictures, 11/2/15
  53. No, the Kids Aren’t Reading the Classics and Why Would They
  54. Introducing the Newest Members of the Scalzi Clan

October 2015

  1. New Books and ARCs, 10/30/15
  2. In Which We Debate One of the Great Issues of Our Time
  3. The $50 Fire Tablet: First Impressions
  4. On the Occasion of Reaching 90,000 Twitter Followers
  5. The Big Idea: Ellen Kushner
  6. On My Way Home
  7. The Big Idea: Lila Bowen
  8. Here’s the Egregious, Mealy-Mouthed Clump of Bullshit That is the 2015 World Fantasy Convention Harassment Policy
  9. View of a Hotel Window, 10/25/15: LA
  10. Fall From the Air
  11. New Books and ARCs, 10/22/15
  12. Reminder: Writing Workshop and Reading this Saturday, October 24, at the Tacoma Public Library
  13. The Big Idea: Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
  14. Get Steppin’
  15. Why I Don’t Drink Coffee, Featuring Maureen Johnson
  16. The Big Idea: Catherynne M. Valente
  17. Always and Never
  18. The 1% of Problems
  19. A Tale of Two Tablets
  20. New Books and ARCs, 10/16/15
  21. Soda Madness
  22. The New Trees
  23. I and Ana Marie Cox Geek Out About Politics and Science Fiction
  24. We’re Installing Trees!
  25. And Now, From the 1994 Version of the World Wide Web: A Free Form Essay
  26. My Thoughts on Nerdcon:Stories
  27. The Big Idea: David Barnett
  28. This is What Twitter is Made For, 10/12/15
  29. My Annual Moment of Appreciation for WordPress VIP
  30. Strange Horizons 2015 Fund Drive: Invest in the Future!
  31. Heading Home Soon
  32. Minneapolis Sunrise and Sunset, 10/10/15
  33. The Big Idea: Laura Anne Gilman
  34. The Big Idea: Ctein
  35. Today’s Twitter Tomfoolery
  36. The Big Idea: Kameron Hurley
  37. Sunset, Dog and Cat, 10/6/15
  38. House For Sale: Come Live in Bucolic Splendor!
  39. The Big Idea: Ann Leckie
  40. New Books and ARCs, 10/5/15
  41. In Other News This May Be My Next Author Photo
  42. 35 Years of Tor
  43. Adulthood and What Being a Friend Means Now
  44. Ohio From Above, 10/4/15
  45. Greetings From Iowa City
  46. View From a Hotel Window: Iowa City + New Books and ARCs, 10/2/15
  47. I Am On My Way to Iowa City
  48. In Which I Rank the Months, Because Why Not
  49. The Big Idea: David J. Peterson

September 2015

  1. What My Day Was Like
  2. I Had Things I Wanted To Write Here But Got Swamped by Actual Work, So While I Catch Up, Enjoy This Very Important Cover Version of a Very Important 90s Song
  3. The Big Idea: Ilana C. Myer
  4. Weekend Clouds
  5. Away For the Weekend
  6. New Books and ARCs, 9/25/15
  7. John Boehner’s Stepping Down
  8. The Big Idea: Tade Thompson
  9. Look What Facebook Has Done To Us, Starring Me and Sara Benincasa
  10. The Big Idea: Douglas Sun
  11. eBook Sales and Author Incomes and All That Jazz
  12. The Big Idea: Christopher Barzak
  13. Last Sunset of the Summer, 2015
  14. Nobody Likes An Asshole (Except Maybe Other Assholes)
  15. Duran Duran, Neil Gaiman, and Beginnings
  16. The Big Idea: Kent Davis
  17. Sunset Clouds
  18. Pictures From Homecoming, 2015
  19. Last Night’s Twitter Rant Involving 20somethings and Finance
  20. New Books and ARCs, 9/17/15
  21. Why Is This Woman Smiling
  22. Where I Will Be in October
  23. The Big Idea: Seth Dickinson
  24. When I Became a Fan
  25. How Many Books You Should Write In a Year
  26. The Big Idea: Pamela Sargent
  27. In Which We Achieve Maximum Giving Tree
  28. The Big Idea: Greg Van Eekhout
  29. Here’s a Quarter
  30. The Big Idea: Sarah Prineas
  31. Blurbs, Conventions and 2017
  32. In Which Patrick Rothfuss Gets All Bunned Up For Charity
  33. The Big Idea: Max Gladstone
  34. The Privileged Poor
  35. My Almost Certainly Ill-Advised Proposed Award Voting Process
  36. 17 Years
  37. Kristine, 9/12/15
  38. Today’s Twitter Rant, 9/12/15
  39. New Books and ARCs, 9/11/15
  40. The Big Idea: Fran Wilde
  41. Can’t Brain 2: The Can’t-Brainening
  42. The Big Idea: Stephanie Diaz
  43. I Can’t Brain Today
  44. The Big Idea: Zen Cho
  45. Krissy Goes to Chicago
  46. The Big Idea: Cindy Pon
  47. The Big Idea: David Walton
  48. Approving Grasshopper Approves
  49. My College Degree: Not So Useless After All
  50. Clouds, 9/4/15
  51. The Big Idea: Bradley Beaulieu
  52. “Being Poor,” Ten Years On
  53. The Big Idea: Rebecca Alexander
  54. New Books and ARCs, 9/2/15 + Reminder: Event in Columbus Tomorrow, 7pm
  55. Wrapping Up 2015: A Hugo Awards Open Thread
  56. The Big Idea: Adam Rakunas
  57. It’s Been a Busy Day at the Scalzi Compound and I Have an Event Tonight So In Lieu of Actual Words, Please Accept This Picture of a Cat

August 2015

  1. New Books and ARCs, 8/31/15 + Reminder: Dayton Tour Stop 9/1/15!
  2. In Which Marian Call is Remarkably Clear-Eyed and Sensible About Kickstarter Projects
  3. Reminder: The Audio For “John Scalzi is Not a Popular Author” is Up!
  4. A Thing Not to Do When You’re Smart
  5. Post Tour Thoughts, etc
  6. “John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular,” the Audiobook, Read by Me, John Scalzi
  7. Final(ish) Notes on Hugos and Puppies, 2015 Edition
  8. Athena’s First Day of School, 2015
  9. New Books and ARCs, 8/28/15
  10. The Big Idea: Stephen H. Provost
  11. Charity Drive for Con or Bust: An Audio Version of “John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular,” Read by Me
  12. (Not a) View From a Hotel Window, 8/27/15: Bradford
  13. My Lunch With Tom
  14. View From a Hotel Window, 8/26/15: Scottsdale
  15. View From a Hotel Window 8/25/15: Los Angeles
  16. The Big Idea: Joe Beernink
  17. View From a Hotel Window, 8/24/15: Palo Alto
  18. Being a Jerk About the Hugos: Not as Effective a Strategy as You Might Think
  19. The End of All Things on the USA Today Bestseller List
  20. The Big Idea: Felicia Day
  21. View From a Hotel Window, 8/23/15: Aurora, Colorado
  22. A Brief Comment on the Hugos
  23. View From a Hotel Window, 8/22/15: Spokane
  24. View From a Hotel Window, 8/20/15: Boise
  25. The Big Idea: Aliette De Bodard
  26. View from a Hotel Window, 8/19/15: Seattle
  27. The Big Idea: Charlie Fletcher
  28. View From a Hotel Window, 8/18/15: Portland
  29. The Big Idea: Linda Nagata
  30. View From a Hotel Window 8/17/15: Madison
  31. My Sasquan Schedule
  32. Notes For New (and Potential) Twitter Followers
  33. View From a Delta Sky Club, 8/16/15: Detroit
  34. View From a Hotel Window, 8/15/15: Cleveland/Westlake
  35. View From a Hotel Window, 8/14/15: Lexington
  36. View From a Hotel Window, 8/13/15: Atlanta
  37. The Big Idea: Stephen Moore
  38. The Big Idea: David Nabhan
  39. View From a Hotel Window, 8/11/15: Memphis
  40. The End of All Things is Out! The End of All Things Tour Begins!
  41. The State of a Genre Title, 2015
  42. “The Dispatcher” — DONE!
  43. Straight Outta Bradford
  44. Sunset, 8/7/15
  45. New Books and ARCs, 8/7/15
  46. Ex’s & Oh’s
  47. The Big Idea: Lexie Dunne
  48. Tour Prepping and Notes
  49. GamerGate Adds to Its Vast Warehouse of Stupid
  50. The Big Idea: N.K. Jemisin
  51. Hey, I Did a “How I Work” Feature on Lifehacker
  52. The Big Idea: Amy K. Nichols
  53. Lock In Paperback Release Day + Tour Reminders + Other Stuff
  54. The Big Idea: Jim C. Hines
  55. Not Dead
  56. TEoAT Locus Review + Hugo Voting Closes
  57. Backstage at the Concert Against Humanity: A Photo Set

July 2015

  1. New Books and ARCs, 7/31/15
  2. Born That Way, Or Not
  3. And Now, Today’s Masterclass on Leaving Passive-Aggressive Notes to One’s Offspring
  4. The Big Idea: Gary Whitta
  5. The Upgrade From Hell
  6. Out In One Week
  7. That New York Magazine Cover
  8. DonaldTrumpDonaldTrumpDonaldTrump
  9. New Books and ARCs, 7/24/15
  10. Das Syndrom
  11. Wife and Daughter, 7/23/15
  12. Pre-Orders, Concerts, Tour Notes and Other Announcements
  13. First Impressions: Asus Chromebook Flip
  14. Look What Just Arrived at the Scalzi Compound
  15. Agent to the Stars, Ten Years On
  16. Blast From the Past: Athena Scalzi, Age Seven, Addresses Scott Westerfeld on the Subject of Pluto
  17. Governor Kasich’s Chances to Win the 2016 GOP Nomination and Then the Presidency, Estimated By This Citizen of Ohio
  18. The Big Idea: Ted Kosmatka
  19. Sunset, With Riding Mower
  20. I Have Nothing of Interest to Say Today, So Instead Here’s a Picture of the Dog in the Yard
  21. Why I’m Disliked: A Ten Point List
  22. New Books and ARCs, 7/17/15
  23. Today’s New Glasses
  24. Seriously, These Cookies Are Awesome
  25. The Big Idea: Stina Leicht
  26. Pluto
  27. The Movie Review That Made Me a Movie Reviewer
  28. The Things I Find in My Yard After a Heavy Rain
  29. Just a Little Rainy Right Now
  30. Today’s Adventure in Rural Living
  31. And Now, For No Reason Other Than It’s a Lazy Sunday, a Ranking of My Creative/Artistic Abilities
  32. For Those Wondering Where the Most Recent Site Subtitle Comes From
  33. Further Tweaking
  34. Being and Nothingness: The Series
  35. New Books and ARCs, 7/10/15
  36. Who Won That ARC Contest, Anyway?
  37. Today’s Quick Answers to a Bunch of Stuff I’ve Been Asked About Recently That I Feel Like Addressing Briefly Because, Hell, Why Not
  38. The Big Idea: Charles Stross
  39. Win an ARC of The End of All Things
  40. The Barren Field
  41. The Big Idea: Wesley Chu
  42. The End of All Things Tour: Cities and Dates and an FAQ
  43. Starred Review of The End of All Things in Publishers Weekly
  44. Happy Fourth of July
  45. New Books and ARCs, 7/3/15
  46. Conversation Between Me and My Brain Today
  47. New Books and ARCs, 7/2/15
  48. Neil and the Bear: Perhaps Not a Children’s Book After All
  49. The Big Idea: S.K. Dunstall
  50. And Now, the First Line of My Next Writing Project
  51. The Big Idea: John G. Hartness

June 2015

  1. To Stand or Fall, Episode Four of The End of All Things, is Out Now!
  2. The Big Idea: P.W. Singer and August Cole
  3. This New America
  4. The Big Idea: Sam Munson
  5. View From a Hotel Window, 6/26/15: San Francisco
  6. Love Wins
  7. I Have a Note From My Brain
  8. Sunset and Daughter (and Daughter’s Boyfriend)
  9. Can Long Endure, Episode Three of The End of All Things, is Out Now!
  10. The Scalzis Go to London
  11. Amazon Tweaks Its Kindle Unlimited System. It Still Sucks For KDP Select Authors
  12. Just Putting These Here So They Can Be Part of the Permanent Record
  13. Note to WSFS Members: Killing the Best Novelette Hugo is a Terrible Idea
  14. Back in the US: A Housekeeping Note
  15. To Be the Anti-Scalzi, and Other Foolishness
  16. The Big Idea: John Ayliff
  17. 20 Years
  18. This Hollow Union, Episode Two of The End of All Things, is Out Now!
  19. The Big Idea: Scott Hawkins
  20. On a Travel Schedule, 6/12 – 6/22
  21. A Jurassic Quiz: Find Out Which Dinosaur Will Eat You!
  22. A Very Important Poll That Will Make You Think About How Fragile and Beautiful the World We Live in Truly is
  23. A Note on Money and Self-Censorship
  24. A Refresher Course On What I’m Obliged to Write About
  25. The Big Idea: Beth Cato
  26. The Life of the Mind, Episode One of The End of All Things: Out Now!
  27. Jacqueline Kahn
  28. Weekend Updatery and Miscellaneous, 6/8/15
  29. Nebula Award Winners, 2015
  30. View From a Hotel Window, 6/5/15
  31. Picture Happy Puppies: A Fundraising Thread
  32. A Video Interview of Me, From Amazon, About “The End of All Things”
  33. In Which I Harangue Creative Types to Update Their Wills and Estates
  34. The Big Idea: Joan of Dark
  35. New Books and ARCs, 6/3/15
  36. Playing With New Themes On the Site Today — Don’t Panic!
  37. “The Life of the Mind” Excerpt at Tor.com
  38. The Big Idea: Martha Wells
  39. Catching Up on ConCarolinas and Final(ish) Notes on The Deal
  40. Hello, I’m Alive, No Really

May 2015

  1. Quick Note to Folks, Re: Sending Me Your Material
  2. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 5/29/15
  3. Storytelling in Four Tweets, Featuring Kristine Scalzi
  4. Chicagoland Folks: Nebula Weekend Approaches!
  5. The Big Idea: Josh Vogt
  6. An Interview in the Washington Post
  7. The Big Idea: Alma Alexander
  8. View From a Hotel Window, 5/26/15 + Thoughts on the Deal Money
  9. The Big Idea: Greg Keyes
  10. Memorial Day Sunset
  11. About That Deal
  12. So, This is Happening
  13. Way to Go, Ireland
  14. A Brief Note About Me Reviewing the Hugo Nominees
  15. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 5/22/15
  16. Updates and Reminders and Cryptic Pronouncements, 5/22/15
  17. The Big Idea: Brian Catling
  18. It’s Been Nearly Three Weeks Since a Cat Picture Here and That’s Just Wrong
  19. The Star Wars Battle Between Good and Evil: The Final Confrontation!
  20. School’s Out for Summer, 2015 Edition
  21. The Big Idea: Tim Lees
  22. How You Should Vote for the Hugos This Year
  23. The End of All Things: Starred Review at Kirkus
  24. The Big Idea: Wendy Suzuki
  25. A Useful Moment From a Mentor
  26. My Funny Internet Life, Part 9,744
  27. The Big Idea: Naomi Novik
  28. New Books and ARCs, 5/18/15
  29. Why Yes, Locus Magazine Does, In Fact, Publish MilSF/Space Opera Reviews
  30. Reader Request Week 2015 Recap
  31. Reader Request Week 2015 #10: Short Bits
  32. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 5/15/15
  33. Wildflowers, by Sacha Long Petyarre
  34. Reader Request Week 2015 #9: Writing Related Short Bits
  35. Road Work
  36. Reader Request Week 2015 #8: On Being an Egotistical Jackass
  37. Reader Request Week 2015 #7: My Dream Retirement
  38. The Big Idea: Karina Sumner-Smith
  39. Reader Request Week 2015 #6: Me and Republicans
  40. Reader Request Week 2015 #5: A Boy Named John
  41. Today’s Deep Deep Cut
  42. Reader Request Week 2015 #4: Bullies and Me
  43. Reader Request Week 2015 #3: Raising Strong Women
  44. The Big Idea: Sabaa Tahir and Renée Ahdieh
  45. Lock In a Finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
  46. Reader Request Week 2015 #2: Ego Searching Redux
  47. Reader Request Week 2015 #1: Free Speech Or Not
  48. My Birthday Present
  49. The Hugos Not Actually Being Destroyed, Part the Many
  50. 46
  51. Krissy and Joan of Dark, 5/9/15
  52. Reader Request Week 2015: Get Your Requests In!
  53. The Big Idea: Joanne M. Harris
  54. What I’m Doing at BEA (and Also, in North Carolina) (And Also, Berkeley!)
  55. Look What I Have Up On My Computer Right Now
  56. The Big Idea: Judith Tarr
  57. Reminder: I’m in Montclair, NJ Tonight at 7:30
  58. The Big Idea: Ryk E. Spoor
  59. The Big Idea: Ramez Naam
  60. Lock In a Finalist for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
  61. My New Film Column Debuts on Sundance.TV! This Week: Star Wars Showdown
  62. I’d Rather Like Men Than To Be a Sad Puppy
  63. The Legion of Scalzi Smartphones
  64. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 5/1/15
  65. The Myth of SF/F Publishing House Exceptionalism

April 2015

  1. The Big Idea: Hermione Eyre
  2. Redshirts as a Social Justice Cabal Hugo Pick
  3. New Books and ARCs, 4/29/15
  4. Drinking Poison and Expecting the Other Person to Die
  5. The Class of ’90 (and of ’06)
  6. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 4/28/15
  7. For No Reason at All, Here I am Singing “Nowhere Man” by the Beatles
  8. The Big Idea: Lev AC Rosen
  9. In Which Edmund Schubert Withdraws From the Hugos
  10. Today’s New Books and ARCs
  11. The Crabapple Tree, Spring 2015
  12. The Big Idea: Bud Sparhawk
  13. It’s Funny Because It’s True
  14. Back to Ohio
  15. View From a Hotel Window 4/24/15
  16. On My Way to Gainesville
  17. Big Idea Notice, Re: May and June (and July)
  18. Hugos and Class
  19. The Elite Poor
  20. Reminder: I’m in Gainesville, Florida This Saturday For a Library Event
  21. My Day in a Wheelchair
  22. A Thing to Remember When Dealing With Sad Puppies
  23. Perth, Melbourne and Los Angeles: A Photo Set
  24. Keeping Up With the Hugos, 4/20/15
  25. It Should Come As No Surprise That Once I Acquired a Cane This Picture Would Become Inevitable
  26. What Was Waiting for Me When I Came Home
  27. Off Again
  28. I Love LA
  29. The Latest Hugo Conspiracy Nonsense Involving Me
  30. The Big Idea: Bishop O’Connell
  31. The (Likely) Cone of Silence
  32. My Latest Accessories
  33. The Big Idea: David Walton
  34. Cover Reveal and Release Dates for The End of All Things Novellas
  35. The Big Idea: Betsy Dornbusch
  36. Human Shields, Cabals and Poster Boys
  37. The Big Idea: Ken Liu
  38. Follow-up on Finishing The End of All Things
  39. This Year’s Lenten Observance in Review
  40. A Note About the Hugo Nominations This Year
  41. The End of All Things: It’s Done!
  42. Novel Completion Queries, Day Nineteen
  43. Novel Completion Queries, Day Eighteen
  44. Novel Completion Queries, Day Seventeen

March 2015

  1. Novel Completion Queries, Day Sixteen
  2. View From a Hotel Window: Perth
  3. Novel Completion Queries, Day Fifteen
  4. Dear Ernie Cline
  5. Novel Completion Queries, Day Fourteen
  6. Novel Completion Queries, Day Thirteen
  7. I’m Participating in Nerdcon: Stories This October in Minneapolis
  8. Novel Completion Queries, Day Twelve
  9. The Big Idea: Cat Rambo
  10. Novel Completion Queries, Day Eleven
  11. Proof That Science Fiction Is the Literature of the Future, and That I Am the Prognostication MASTER
  12. Novel Completion Queries, Day Ten
  13. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 3/24/15
  14. Novel Completion Queries, Day Nine
  15. Novel Completion Queries, Day Eight
  16. RIP, Peggy Rae Sapienza
  17. Novel Completion Queries, Day Seven
  18. Novel Completion Queries, Day Six
  19. In Which Mary Robinette Kowal Reads My Sexy, Sexy Tweets
  20. Novel Completion Queries, Day Five
  21. Novel Completion Queries, Day Four
  22. Novel Completion Queries, Day Three
  23. Novel Completion Queries, Day Two
  24. The Big Idea: Brian Upton
  25. New Books and ARCs, 3/16/15
  26. Novel Completion Queries, Day One
  27. Security Certificate Alerts on Whatever — Don’t Panic!
  28. Bart Blauser, RIP
  29. Best Dad Ever
  30. Happy Pi Day
  31. New Books and ARCs 3/13/15
  32. The Next Month (or so) on Whatever and Social Media
  33. The Big Idea: Catherynne Valente
  34. New Books and ARCs, 3/12/15
  35. RIP, Terry Pratchett
  36. Note to Businesses Following Me on Twitter
  37. New Books and ARCs, 3/11/15
  38. The Big Idea: Genevieve Valentine
  39. Husband and Wife
  40. A Book Sale at the Cost of Your Conscience
  41. The Big Idea: Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely
  42. A Visit to Mammoth Cave
  43. What I Did With My Weekend
  44. Taking the Weekend Off, Again
  45. The Big Idea: Carrie Patel
  46. Moonrise Through the Trees, 3/5/15
  47. The Big Idea: Kirby Crow
  48. Hey, I’ll Be at the Pickerington, OH Public Library Two Weeks From Today
  49. Things I Promised People I Would Tell You About, Not That I Didn’t Want to Tell You About Them Anyway, Because They’re Cool
  50. The Big Idea: Bruce Schneier
  51. Today’s Reading is From the Book of Redshirts
  52. New Books and ARCs, 3/3/15
  53. The Big Idea: Ferrett Steinmetz
  54. Standard Responses to Online Stupidity
  55. The Big Idea: Justine Larbalestier

February 2015

  1. Taking the Weekend Off
  2. RIP, Leonard Nimoy
  3. We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
  4. Why Yes, I Still Have a Landline
  5. Reading Authors Not Like Me
  6. The Big Idea: Matt Richtel
  7. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 2/23/15
  8. Note About Blurb Requests
  9. Hebrew Android’s Dream + Other Notes
  10. Quick Email Note
  11. 2015 Oscar Predictions, Final
  12. This Year’s Nebula Award Nominees
  13. Oliver Sacks and Public Individuals at the Close
  14. Humble Subterranean Press Bundle: Pay What You Want For a Lot of Great Stuff
  15. Back in the Day
  16. Binary Isn’t
  17. The Thing I’m Giving Up For Lent, 2015
  18. Sunset 2/17/15
  19. You Can’t Take Back What You Already Have
  20. The Big Idea: Peter Darbyshire
  21. My Solo Album (Not Really But Even So)
  22. I am Busy Today But Do Not Wish to Leave You With Nothing Here on Whatever, So Please Enjoy This Picture of a Cat in a Bathtub
  23. Reminder: Today is International Grover Appreciation Day
  24. Today’s Thing I’ve Never Seen Before
  25. New Books and ARCs, 2/13/15
  26. The Big Idea: Randy Henderson
  27. There She Goes
  28. The 2015 SF/F Fans Award Recommendation Thread
  29. JoCo Cruise Celebrity Artemis, In Which It Is Revealed I Am an Incompetent Captain
  30. The Big Idea: Brian McClellan
  31. Lock In an Audie Award Finalist + Other Award Notes
  32. Announcing the Audie Award Finalists for Fantasy, 2015!
  33. The Big Idea: Amy Bai
  34. Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle Available for a Limited Time
  35. The Big Idea: Rebecca Adams Wright
  36. The Big Idea: Courtney Alameda
  37. How I Spent My JoCo Cruise 2015
  38. Ships of the Line
  39. Pictures From the JoCo Cruise, Part the Third
  40. Midnight Star Available NOW Worldwide on iOS
  41. Pictures From JoCo Cruise, Part the Second
  42. The Big Idea: Elizabeth Bear
  43. Lock In an Alex Award Winner
  44. Lock In One of ALA’s “Best Reads” In SF and on The Locus Recommended List + Yesterday’s Sunset
  45. Pictures From JoCo Cruise

January 2015

  1. Farewell From Florida
  2. The Big Idea: Greg Van Eekhout
  3. Midnight Rises, My Graphic Novel, Out NOW on iOS!
  4. The Big Idea: Heather Webb
  5. The Big Idea: Myke Cole
  6. John Anderson, RIP
  7. Sunset with Sundogs, 1/26/15
  8. Lock In a Lariat Top 25 Book for 2014
  9. The Cold Weather Pee Loop
  10. The Next Couple of Weeks Around Whatever
  11. Quick Ghlaghghee Followup
  12. Ghlaghghee, 2003 – 2015
  13. Interview of Me in Xcents Magazine
  14. Midnight Rises: Out January 29th!
  15. Ghlaghghee Update, 1/23/15
  16. The Big Idea: Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith
  17. New Books/ARCs, 1/21/15
  18. Author Event This Friday at the Montage Cafe, Greenville, OH, 7pm
  19. Sunset 1/19/15
  20. New Books and ARCs, 1/19/15
  21. Back from Confusion ’15
  22. The Big Idea: Red Equinox
  23. First-Pass Oscar Predictions, 2015
  24. The Big Idea: Greer Macallister
  25. A Cat and His Box
  26. The Big Idea: Marcus Sedgwick
  27. Disorganized Thoughts on Free Speech, Charlie Hebdo, Religion and Death
  28. The “Duh” Factor
  29. That Time I Remixed a Depeche Mode Song
  30. Holy Cow, I Forgot to Post Today
  31. A Question For Discussion This Fair Evening
  32. Monty Python and the Holy Livetweet
  33. Meanwhile, at the Scalzi Compound
  34. Author Cat is Authorial
  35. The Big Idea: James Morrow
  36. SF/F Authors/Editors/Artists/Fan Creators 2015 Award Awareness Post
  37. New Computer Update
  38. In Today’s Episode of “John Scalzis Who Are Not Me”
  39. The 2015 Awards Consideration Post
  40. Output, Appearances, Plans, Resolutions, 2015 Edition
  41. Old Man’s War, Ten Years On

2014 658

December 2014

  1. A Last Look at the Sun, 2014
  2. My Own 2014
  3. Pet Pictures 2014 (Plus Bonus Ghlaghghee Update)
  4. Today’s Best Twitter Correspondence
  5. Hell Yes, I’m a Feminist
  6. Subscription Model Squabbles
  7. The Top Ten Whatever Entries for 2014, Plus 2014 Traffic
  8. On Being Accused of Confessing to Awful Things
  9. My Best Pun, Possibly Ever
  10. Best Longform Twitterings, 2014
  11. The Sunsets of 2014
  12. Whatever Best of 2014
  13. Think of This as a Bonus Holiday Tale
  14. Sixteen
  15. Script Notes on The Birth of Jesus
  16. Solstice Sunset, 12/21/14
  17. New Books and ARCs, 12/19/14
  18. Ghlaghghee Update
  19. Nerds on a Boat
  20. Worst Date In 5 Words
  21. About That Note From John Sargent
  22. Dear The Toast and The Butter: Please Fix Your Rights Grab (UPDATE: They Did)
  23. Urgh
  24. Preparing You All Ahead of Time
  25. New Books and ARCs, 12/15/14
  26. On the Subject of Last Minute Scalzi Gifts
  27. In Which I Try the Mirror Universe Coca Cola
  28. What Am I Up To? Oh, Nothing, Just Starting Fires on Twitter
  29. The Big Idea: Shannon Page
  30. Last Day for Signed/Personalized Books for the Holidays
  31. Lindsey Rey Explores My Books
  32. The Big Idea: Chad Orzel
  33. Today’s Phrase That Improbably Has Up To This Point Turned Up Nothing On Google
  34. UGH CANNOT BRAIN
  35. Self Portrait Via Cat
  36. Lopsided Cat Guards the Sacred Pile of Freshly Laundered Towels
  37. This is How We Educate Our Youth
  38. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2014, Day Five: Charities
  39. The Kid Makes Her Point
  40. You, Me, Twitter
  41. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2014, Day Four: Fan Favorites!
  42. The New Rig, 2014 Edition
  43. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2014, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More
  44. The Big Idea: Jim C. Hines
  45. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2014, Day Two: Non-Traditionally Published Books
  46. Today’s Ill-Advised Facial Hair Experiment, 12/1/14
  47. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2014, Day One: Traditionally Published Books

November 2014

  1. New Books and ARCs, 11/28/14
  2. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2014 Starts Monday!
  3. Happy Thanksgiving
  4. Morning Clouds + Two Quick Advertisements For Myself
  5. Popping In
  6. New Books/ARCs, 11/19/14
  7. Winter’s Here + “Lock In” a Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist + Other Stuff
  8. November Frost (And Updates)
  9. Hey, I Gotta Write a Book, So I’m Outta Here Until December
  10. The Big Idea: Cixin Liu
  11. One For the Fan Club, Because It’s Been a While
  12. How to Get Signed and Personalized Scalzi Books for the Holidays, 2014
  13. Taking the Weekend Off
  14. This Year I’m Part of the JoCoCruise Experience
  15. New Books and ARCs, 11/7/14
  16. A Quick Reminder About Sending Me Things
  17. More Leaves
  18. Post-Election Notes, 2014
  19. US Folks: Remember to Vote
  20. #TeamFatherDaughterTwitterExchanges
  21. Sunset, November 2, 2014
  22. Autumn Leaves
  23. What November Looks Like From Here
  24. A Quick Note on NaNoWriMo
  25. Hey, Remember When I Wrote I Won an Erotic Fan Fiction Contest Based on the Watchman Graphic Novel?
  26. Have a Happy Halloween or Athena Will Be Very Disappointed With You

October 2014

  1. Jian Ghomeshi and the Women He Knew
  2. “Lock In” by William Beckett: Now Available to Download!
  3. How My Week Went
  4. The Zombie Kristine Blauser Scalzi Wishes to Give You a Festive Halloween Kiss
  5. If This is Thursday, It Must Be Cleveland
  6. The Big Idea: Tricia Sullivan
  7. Checking In
  8. Alive and Having Meetings
  9. Mostly Out For the Next Few Days
  10. New Books and ARCs, 10/24/14
  11. French Cover of The Human Division
  12. Yes, Fine, I’ll (Ugh) Talk Some Politics For This Year
  13. How to Boycott Me, I Mean, REALLY Boycott Me
  14. The Big Idea: Alex Flynn
  15. I’m Travelling to Chicago Today, So Please Enjoy This Fan Art of The Last Colony
  16. It’s All Beautiful and Nothing Lasts
  17. The Doubleclicks Tell You How to Do Kickstarter
  18. Hey, Did I Mention I’m Gonna Take the Weekend Off?
  19. New Books and ARCs, 10/17/14
  20. Reminder: I’m in Chicago Next Tuesday, 10/21, at the Seminary Co-op in Hyde Park, 6pm
  21. One Song, Two Takes: “Kiteflyer’s Hill”
  22. The Big Idea: Rajan Khanna
  23. Our New Toy
  24. Quick Procedural Note re: Comments and Embeds
  25. A Momentary Pause to Appreciate the Beauties of Autumn
  26. The Scalzi Gender
  27. The Big Idea: Sophie Littlefield
  28. My Annual Plug and Appreciation for WordPress VIP
  29. #PineapplePizzaGate
  30. On Using the “Mute” Button on Twitter
  31. My Thoughts This Morning on GamerGate
  32. A Note on New York Comic Con’s Anti-Harassment Policy
  33. I’m in Cincinnati on Saturday for Books by the Banks
  34. The Big Idea: Mike Allen
  35. Who Is That Masked Man?
  36. View From the Hotel Window, 10/6/14
  37. The Big Idea: M.A. Larson
  38. Two Views of a Very Temporary Look
  39. Aiming for the Market
  40. Today’s Little Bit of Online Wisdom
  41. Redshirts in Korean and Polish
  42. New Books and ARCs, 10/3/14
  43. Hello, Friday. Have Some Mary Lambert
  44. My New York Comic Con/Super Week Schedule
  45. Unlocked Limited Signed Hardcover: Officially Out!
  46. Dual Lock In Reviews in Locus Magazine
  47. The Big Idea: Gwenda Bond

September 2014

  1. Blurb Requests for 2014 and Convention GoH Invites for 2015: Full Up
  2. Hey, Kids! Let’s Define a Word!
  3. The Big Idea: Katherine Howe
  4. Today’s Home Improvements at the Scalzi Compound
  5. Subterranean Press Sale Today and Tomorrow
  6. How My Online Stuff Gets Seen in 2014
  7. Daughter and Homecoming Date, 2014
  8. Sunrise, 9/28/14
  9. People Are the Problem and They Pretty Much Always Will Be
  10. Sunset, 9/26/14
  11. Today’s Books and ARCs, 9/25/14
  12. The Big Idea: Chrysler Szarlan
  13. An Anti-Feminist Walks Into a Bar: A Play in Five Acts
  14. Wow, the Day Got Past Me and I Have Nothing Interesting to Say, So Here’s a Video of a Song I Like From 1989
  15. I Strongly Believe That If My Cat Had an Author Photo It Would Look Like This
  16. For Those Who Missed Me On Tour: Video!
  17. The Big Idea: William Alexander
  18. This is the 9,000th Post on Whatever
  19. In Which Tor.com Reveals a Thing I Did With Lock In + Lock In Spoiler Thread
  20. The Case of the Missing Cat Who Wasn’t
  21. Ruining Science Fiction With Glitter: The Scalzi Chronicles
  22. Further Comments On Comments
  23. German Heritage Days in Fort Loramie: A Photo Set
  24. Housekeeping Regarding Comments and Email
  25. (Not the) View From the Hotel Window, 9/20/14: Bradford, OH
  26. And Of Course There Was a Lightsaber Duel at Last Night’s Tour Stop
  27. View From the Hotel Window, 9/19/14: Philadelphia
  28. Cover Reveal: The End of All Things
  29. (Not the) View From the Hotel Window, 9/18/14: New York
  30. Hey, Did You Know I Was Going To Be at New York Comic Con?
  31. View From the Hotel Window, 9/17/14: Saratoga Springs
  32. The Lock In TV Deal Kermit Flail
  33. View From the Hotel Window, 9/16/14: Concord, NH
  34. And Now, Because It Might Be Useful to Everyone, Including Me, a Quick Reality Check
  35. The Big Idea: David Barnett
  36. Lock In Acquired for Television by Legendary TV
  37. View From the Hotel Window, 9/15/14: Boston
  38. New Books and ARCs, 9/15/14
  39. Does Book Touring Still Matter?
  40. Bestseller Cookies
  41. 16 Years
  42. Two Tales In Translation
  43. And Now, For Reasons, A Personal Ranking of All U2 Albums (Plus One EP)
  44. View From a Hotel Window, 9/11/14: Lexington, KY
  45. The Old Man’s War Series: Now in Box Form
  46. View From the Hotel Window, 9/10/14: Chicago, IL
  47. View From the Hotel Window, 9/9/14: Iowa City
  48. The Big Idea: Nancy Kress
  49. How Lock In Is the #1 (and #20, and #107) Book in the US
  50. View From the Hotel Window, 9/8/14: San Diego
  51. The End of a Whatever Era
  52. View From the Hotel Window, 9/7/14: Los Angeles
  53. I See This View a Lot These Days
  54. What I Did With My Post-Event Time Last Night
  55. View From the Hotel Window, 9/5/14: SF, Plus Stuff, Plus Open Thread
  56. Publishing: Not a Zero-Sum Game
  57. Today’s Nice Bit of News
  58. Today’s View From the Hotel Window, 9/3/14: Seattle
  59. View From the Hotel Window, 9/2/14: Denver
  60. The Big Idea: Cherie Priest
  61. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 9/1/14
  62. For Those of You Who Have Read Lock In and Wish to Discuss It

August 2014

  1. Various and Sundry, 8/31/14 + Open Comment Thread
  2. Today’s Reason I’m Happy With My Publisher
  3. View From the Hotel Window, 8/30/14: Decatur, GA
  4. Lock In Through the Lens of Disability
  5. View From the Hotel Window, 8/29/14: Chapel Hill
  6. View From the Hotel Window, 8/28/14: Raleigh
  7. The Big Idea: Kameron Hurley
  8. View From the Hotel Window, 8/27/14: Austin, TX
  9. Today’s Thought Expressed on Twitter
  10. View From the Hotel Window, 8/26/14: Houston
  11. Lock In: It’s Out!
  12. The Tour Baggage This Time
  13. Comments Are Now Officially (Mostly) Closed Through September 21
  14. New Books and ARCs, 8/25/14
  15. The Doubleclicks Cover “Friday I’m In Love” Because I Asked Them To
  16. On The Matter Of When to Buy Lock In and In What Format
  17. Pre-Tour Procedural Bits
  18. A Moment Of Recognition
  19. Some Lock In Reviews for Your Weekend Pleasure
  20. Henry Rollins Shows His Ass, Gets Told, Owns It
  21. New Books and ARCs, 8/22/14
  22. Things To Do Before the Book Tour, for Both You and Me
  23. The August 26 SF/F Line Up
  24. Two Truths and a Lie With John Scalzi
  25. The Big Idea: Kat Richardson
  26. Posting For Posterity
  27. My Social Media Center of Gravity
  28. The Big Idea: Mary Weber
  29. Two Things I Would Like to Tell You About Today, Relating to Me
  30. “Lock In” by William Beckett: The Theme Song to the Novel
  31. Get a Sneak Preview of the Lock In Audiobook by Amber Benson and Wil Wheaton
  32. Midnight Star Article On GamesIndustry.Biz
  33. First Day of School, August 18, 2014
  34. Thoughts On the Hugo Awards, 2014
  35. Get Out Your Bingo Card
  36. The 2014 Hugo Award Winners
  37. The Last Day of Summer Vacation
  38. It’s Official
  39. Suddenly, Nostalgia
  40. Douglas Lathrop, RIP
  41. The Big Idea: Carol Berg
  42. The Lock In Tour FAQ
  43. The Big Idea: E. Catherine Tobler
  44. Tour Travel, Whatever and Comments
  45. But Doctor, I am Pagliacci
  46. The Big Idea: Jon McGoran
  47. Award Winning DJ John Scalzi
  48. What I’m Doing With My Day
  49. Robin Williams, RIP
  50. As a Reminder, My Loncon 3 and GenCon Schedules
  51. Today’s Clouds
  52. Off to Get School Supplies
  53. A Brief List of Standard Answers For the Amazon/Hachette Thing
  54. Amazon Gets Increasingly Nervous
  55. New Books and ARCs, 8/8/14
  56. The Big Idea: Delilah S. Dawson
  57. Baenapalooza! (New Books/ARCs, 8/7/14)
  58. My Favorite SF/F Epidemic Literature
  59. Reminder: Get Your Order For Signed Copies of Lock In By 8/8
  60. OMW TV Series Announcement Followup
  61. The Big Idea: Alisa Krasnostein
  62. In Which I Interview Myself About the Old Man’s War TV Series
  63. Oh, Hey, Did I Mention That Old Man’s War is Becoming a TV Series?
  64. Various and Sundry 8/5/14
  65. The Big Idea: Bishop O’Connell
  66. Author Feuds
  67. My Friends Paul & Storm Made a Video And It’s Funny So Please Watch It Now
  68. And Now, The Competition
  69. A Column I Wrote About Writing, But Not Here
  70. My Reading in Beavercreek
  71. Away Today
  72. Two Advertisements For Myself: Signed Lock In Copies and Tomorrow’s Appearance in Beavercreek

July 2014

  1. Starred Review of Lock In at Booklist
  2. Old Man’s War and Trans Folk
  3. The Big Idea: Joshua Roots
  4. Amazon’s Latest Volley
  5. The Big Idea: Arianne ‘Tex’ Thompson
  6. The Lock In Hardcover Has Arrived at the Scalzi Compound
  7. Athena Reviews “Peter and the Wolf”
  8. Dayton Appearance August 2nd; Hugos; GenCon
  9. Help Kickstart Uncanny Magazine
  10. The Big Idea: Nick Harkaway
  11. “The Failure of Flappy Bird”: A Very Short Short Story By Me, in Popular Science
  12. What Happened After I Reported: Elise Matthesen, WisCon, and Harassment
  13. A First Class Trip to Hell is Still a Trip to Hell
  14. Ohiobound
  15. Saturday in San Diego
  16. Yesterday in San Diego
  17. San Diego Comic-con Addendum
  18. Hello San Diego
  19. New Books and ARCs, 7/23/14
  20. Paul & Storm: Ball Pit is Out!
  21. Subscription Services and My Writing
  22. The Neighbors’ Mailboxes Vs. the Scalzi Riding Mower
  23. This Thursday (and Elsewhen) in San Diego
  24. My 80s Dance Set List from Detcon 1
  25. Detcon, Briefly
  26. Still Alive
  27. View From a Hotel Window, 7/18/14: View of Two Countries Edition
  28. Off to Detcon1
  29. The Big Idea: Sarah McCarry
  30. On Book Reviews at Whatever
  31. Your Dose of Pure 80s Music Video WTFery for Wednesday
  32. Another Life Milestone for Athena
  33. The Big Idea: Sebastien de Castell
  34. An Interesting Quandary
  35. My Detcon1 Schedule
  36. Lock In on the August 2014 LibraryReads List
  37. The Lowest Difficulty Setting in Action
  38. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Quick Review
  39. Off to See the Apes
  40. Sunset 7/12/14
  41. How I am Spending My Saturday
  42. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 7/11/14
  43. This is How You Handle Arbitrary Milestones on Social Media
  44. Relevant to Recent Discussions
  45. My First Job and What it Paid
  46. The Big Idea: D.B. Jackson
  47. Things We’ve Learned About Mary Robinette Kowal Today
  48. Sunset, July 8, 2014
  49. Dayton Appearance 8/2, Unlocked and Lock In Reviews and the Proverbial More
  50. The Big Idea: Mary E. Pearson
  51. So Here’s What Arrived at the Scalzi Compound Just Now
  52. The Ways the Scalzi Women Are Better Than Me: An Incomplete List
  53. Question for the USA Folks, Re: Coins
  54. Visitors Today
  55. Happy July 4. Here Are Things Exploding in Movies
  56. New Books and ARCs, 7/3/14
  57. Amazon, Hachette, Publishing, Etc — It’s Not a Football Game, People
  58. The Big Idea: Tobias S. Buckell
  59. San Diego Update
  60. The Lock In Audiobook: Two Versions, Two Narrators. Pre-Order and Get Both
  61. Also, A Thought, Here on July 1st
  62. The Big Idea: Marcus Sakey

June 2014

  1. The 2014 Lock In Tour + How to Get Signed Books (Even If You Can’t Make the Tour)
  2. Pet Portraits, 6/29/14
  3. Tinkering With My Desktop Computer
  4. How I Can Tell I Am a Writer
  5. The Animal I Was Thinking Of Yesterday (and, Who Won the Lock In ARC)
  6. New Books and ARCs, 6/27/14
  7. Hey, I Think I Will Give Away an ARC of Lock In
  8. Lock In Gets a Starred Review From Kirkus
  9. Sunset, 6/25/14
  10. Various & Sundry, 6/25/14
  11. Note on July/August Big Idea Slots
  12. How Not to Talk About Your Money, Very Rich Edition
  13. I Have Voted for the Hugos
  14. On the 25th Anniversary of Tim Burton’s Batman Movie, a Personal Ranking of All the Batman Films
  15. What I’m Doing With My Sunday
  16. Saturday Fiddling
  17. Spring’s Final Clouds
  18. New Books and ARCs, 6/20/14
  19. Yog’s Law and Self-Publishing
  20. Angry Robot Closes Strange Chemistry and Exhibit A Imprints
  21. A Former Marine Corps Weapons Instructor on the Desirability of Guns for Self-Defense
  22. The Big Idea: M.K. Hutchins
  23. Brothers, 80s Style
  24. We Did This 19 Years Ago Today
  25. Joystiq Previews Midnight Star (Spoiler: They Really Like It)
  26. The Big Idea: Matthew Johnson
  27. Lock In Earns a Starred Review From Publishers Weekly
  28. Father’s Day: It’s Okay I Guess
  29. Proposal Day, 20 Years On
  30. It’s Flag Day, So Here’s a Picture of a 7-Year-Old Athena Distraught That Her Flag Has Touched the Ground
  31. New Books and ARCs, 6/13/14
  32. My Brain is Not Braining at the Moment, So Here, Listen to Au Revoir Simone 80s-up Mazzy Star
  33. Disclosure Statement
  34. The Big Idea: Daniel H. Wilson
  35. Congratulations to Eric Cantor On His Upcoming Job as Lobbyist
  36. On Phoenix Comicon, 2014
  37. Today’s New Books and ARCS, 6/10/14
  38. The Big Idea: Greg Van Eekhout
  39. Oh Boy! Travel!
  40. My Bit of the Paul & Storm Concert, Recorded
  41. John Scalzi Live in Concert
  42. The Android’s Dream is Audible’s Daily Deal
  43. The Big Idea: Jo Anderton
  44. The Big Idea: Sarah Beth Durst
  45. Early Morning Airportery
  46. You Know What? I’m Not Gonna Be Here Today
  47. Tor.com is Giving Away Ten Signed ARCs of Lock In
  48. On My Loncon 3 Attendance This Year
  49. The Most Terrifying Alarm Clock a Teen Can Have
  50. The Big Idea: Michael Martineck
  51. The Worst Social Media Advice Ever
  52. My Phoenix Comicon Schedule
  53. The Cover of the Subterranean Press Edition of “Unlocked,” by Molly Crabapple
  54. A Nice Way to Start the Work Week
  55. Jay Lake, Remembered
  56. Jay Lake is Gone

May 2014

  1. My Adventures at BEA
  2. On My Way
  3. Today’s Books and ARCs, 5/29/14
  4. The Big Idea Artist Spotlight: John Harris
  5. The Big Idea: Howard Tayler
  6. And Now, the First Ripe Strawberry of the Season
  7. Watch My Friend Wil’s New Show Tonight at 10pm
  8. The Big Idea: Sarah Lotz
  9. Heading Home
  10. ComicPalooza Check In
  11. A Note On a Topic of Interest
  12. Two — Yes, Two! — Autographing Sessions at ComicPalooza
  13. Two Neil Gaiman Things of More Than Passing Interest
  14. View From a Hotel Window: Houston
  15. “Ask the Author” at Goodreads
  16. The Big Idea: Steven S. Drachman
  17. Dragon Sunset, 5/21/14
  18. Lock In Chapter One: Now on Tor.com
  19. Quick Take: Godzilla
  20. ComicPalooza Events
  21. The Big Idea: Monica Byrne
  22. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 5/19/14
  23. Today’s Tech Wonkery
  24. Nebula Award Winners for 2013
  25. Ten Years Ago: Wedding Advice to Same Sex Couples
  26. In Which the Twitters Play On My Lawn
  27. Freshman Freakouts
  28. Athena, on Her Last Day of Ninth Grade
  29. Today’s Song I Kinda Hate
  30. Daisy Practices Her “I Am Very Sad In a Way That Only Food Will Solve” Face
  31. The Big Idea: Will McIntosh
  32. A Question for the Evening, 5/14/14
  33. On the Subject of Who Can’t Win a Hugo Today
  34. For the Avoidance of Doubt
  35. “Unlocked” Now at Tor.com
  36. Notes on This Year’s Hugo Voter’s Packet
  37. The Big Idea: Rose Fox and Daniel José Older
  38. An Important Announcement
  39. Photos From Mother’s Day
  40. Happy Mother’s Day
  41. Thank You For Your Birthday Wishes. Please Accept, As a Token of My Esteem, This Picture of a Puppy
  42. 45 2
  43. Oh, and These ARCs Showed Up Too
  44. On The Claim That Heinlein Couldn’t Win a Hugo Today
  45. New Books and ARCs, 5/9/14
  46. The Big Idea: Stephanie Saulter
  47. This Is Just To Let You Know
  48. The Big Idea: Jeff VanderMeer
  49. My Slightly Early Birthday Present to Myself
  50. Unlocked: Now Available!
  51. In Which We Give My Mother-in-Law a New Puppy
  52. An Anthem for the Broken (A single to benefit John Anderson)
  53. The Big Idea: Nick Mamatas
  54. Here, Listen to an 800-Year-Old Icelandic Hymn Sung in a German Train Station
  55. May Flowers, Continued
  56. I Claim This Word In the Name of the Internet: Snuffaluffphagy
  57. New Books and ARCs, 5/2/14
  58. Various Things I Want to Tell You About, 5/1/14
  59. May Flowers
  60. The Big Idea: Melanie Rawn

April 2014

  1. Traitor to the Mens: Get the T-Shirt!
  2. I Am SOOOOOOOOOOO Unmotivated To Post Anything Today
  3. The Big Idea: Mary Robinette Kowal
  4. Sunset on Jupiter
  5. Today’s Reminder That the 80s Really Were Another Time Entirely
  6. Back From Chicago
  7. C2E2 Day Two
  8. On to C2E2
  9. View from a Hotel Window, Chicago, April ’14
  10. Yet Another Travel Day
  11. There is a Dog Cleverly Hidden in This Picture!
  12. May 2014 Big Idea Slots All Filled
  13. And Now, Rebuttals
  14. My C2E2 Schedule
  15. Wheel of Time; Hugo Novel Nominees; How I Read Nominated Works
  16. The Big Idea: Daryl Gregory
  17. New Books and ARCs, 4/21/14
  18. A Relevant Bit of Information
  19. Lazy Monday
  20. No, The Hugo Nominations Were Not Rigged
  21. I’m Swancon 40’s International Guest of Honor
  22. Happy Easter
  23. Quick 2014 Hugo Nomination Thoughts
  24. The 2014 Hugo Nominees
  25. Your Saturday Iron Maiden
  26. Today is International Kristine Blauser Scalzi Appreciation Day
  27. Yes, Folks, I’ve Seen Today’s xkcd; Yes, It’s Rather On Point
  28. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 4/17/14
  29. Hungarian Cover of The Human Division
  30. The Four Levels of Discrimination (and You) (and Me, Too)
  31. More On the Limited Signed Print Edition of Unlocked From Subterranean
  32. I Woke Up Late and My Brain Is Mush, So While I Reboot It Here’s 25 Minutes of Cat Vines
  33. Damn It, I Can’t Make It to GaymerX2
  34. Announcing “Unlocked”
  35. Write a Check, Get an Entirely Unrelated Check
  36. My Festival of Books Panel, Written Up
  37. Jetting Toward Ohio
  38. Off to the LA Times Festival of Books
  39. Women Characters in The Human Division
  40. The Big Idea: A.J. Larrieu
  41. How I Keep Myself Amused on Long Flights, Part II: The Gremlining
  42. View From a Hotel Window, LA 2014 Edition
  43. Oh, Look, Traveling Again
  44. How I Sold My Books
  45. Reminder to Everyone: I’ll Be at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books This Saturday
  46. The Big Idea: Elizabeth Bear
  47. Off to See Emmylou
  48. Your Thought For Today
  49. Brendan Eich and Mozilla
  50. John Scalzi, Award-Winning… Meteorologist?
  51. New Books and ARCs, 4/4/14
  52. A Series of Tweets Regarding My Own Personal Sexism
  53. The Droid Maxx, Two Weeks In
  54. The Big Idea: Geoff Rodkey
  55. And Now, For No Particular Reason, a List of My Top Ten Favorite Coen Brothers Films
  56. The Big Idea: Robin Riopelle
  57. Sunset, 4/2/14
  58. Twitter Thoughts, April 2014
  59. The Big Idea: Emily Jiang
  60. This is No Way to Run For Congress, Matthew Guyette
  61. Mary Robinette Kowal Confesses
  62. The Big Idea: Katherine Addison

March 2014

  1. Three Things on a Monday Morning
  2. Reminder to Emerald City Comicon Attendees: Reading/Q&A Today, 5pm
  3. Off to the Emerald City Comicon
  4. View From a Hotel Window, Seattle Edition
  5. Hello, I am in the Sky
  6. Note For Those Waiting on May Big Idea Slots
  7. The Big Idea: Elle Cosimano
  8. Snow and Sun
  9. The God Engines Now Added to Humble Bundle 3
  10. My Emerald City Comicon Events
  11. The Big Idea: Adam Christopher
  12. New Public Appearance Announcements: Los Angeles, Detroit, New York, Phoenix
  13. Reader Request Week 2014 Recap
  14. The Big Idea: Bill Quick
  15. The Fan Writer Hugo, and Pros
  16. The New Phone, March 2014 Edition
  17. Reader Request Week 2014 #10: Short Bits
  18. New Books/ARCs, 3/21/14
  19. Reader Request Week 2014 #9: Short Writery Bits
  20. Athena, 3/20/14
  21. Reader Request Week 2014 #8: What Writing Lurks In the Shadows?
  22. To Note The Passing of Fred Phelps
  23. Twenty Years Online
  24. Reader Request Week 2014 #7: Editorial Independence
  25. Reader Request Week 2014 #6: Enjoying Problematic Things
  26. Reader Request Week 2014 #5: Hitting the Lottery
  27. Reader Request Week 2014 #4: How I See You, Dear Reader
  28. Reminder: Two Weeks to Get Your Hugo Nominations In
  29. Reader Request Week 2014 #3: How I Stay Happy
  30. Reader Request Week 2014 #2: Writerly Self-Doubt, Out Loud
  31. Reader Request Week 2014 #1: Travel and Me
  32. Still Weekending
  33. Guests! Again! Later!
  34. An Opportune Moment to Note a Thing re: Baen Books
  35. Reader Request Week 2014: Get Your Requests In!
  36. The Big Idea: Denise Kiernan
  37. An Anecdotal Observation, Relating to Robert Heinlein and the Youth of Today
  38. A Plea to Current and Future Worldcons, re: Announcing the Hugo Nominations
  39. 1979 Called and It Wants Its Tuffskins Back
  40. The Orthodox Church of Heinlein
  41. The Big Idea: Leah Cypess
  42. Two Things, Relating to Me, 3/10/14
  43. The New Cosmos Series
  44. Daylight Savings Sunset
  45. Still Houseguesting
  46. With House Guests Today
  47. New Books/ARCs, 3/7/14
  48. The Big Idea: Marjorie M. Liu
  49. Because I Like Helping!
  50. The New Nook Glowlight, With Cat for Scale
  51. The Big Idea: Stephen Leigh
  52. And Now, a Brief Recap of Our JoCo Cruise 4 Vacation
  53. What I Am Giving Up For Lent
  54. Things That Pass Me By
  55. Molly Lewis’ “The Year of the Beard”
  56. The Big Idea: Lynne Matson
  57. Finally, to Round Out a Busy Day of Posting Things, a Picture of the Missus
  58. The End of the Nook
  59. Get Your Official Insect Army Coffee Mugs!
  60. In Case You Rely On Me For These Things: The 2013 Nebula Awards Nominees
  61. Not Exactly a Case For the Scooby Gang
  62. The Human Division Paperback Out in the World
  63. Post-Oscar Notes, 2014
  64. Returned

February 2014

  1. Away From Keyboard Until 3/3
  2. In Today’s “Get Off My Lawn” News
  3. A Late Winter Portrait
  4. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
  5. Sean Fodera Makes an Apology
  6. Routing Around Facebook’s Attempt to Block Me
  7. Houston: I’ll See You Memorial Day Weekend At Comicpalooza
  8. And Now, To Lighten the Mood, Here’s Pictures of Cats, Set to “Walking On Sunshine”
  9. Join the Insect Army!
  10. Reminder: Con or Bust Auctions are Live!
  11. Mary Robinette Kowal Offers Herself Up as a Useful Representative Example
  12. A Note to Sean Fodera
  13. Why I Didn’t Go To Bennington College
  14. A Conversation That Actually Just Happened
  15. New Books, 2/14/14
  16. The Best Valentine for Teh Intarweebs, From Ursula Vernon
  17. A Valentine’s Day Song for My Best Girl: “Friday I’m in Love”
  18. Publishing Notes, 2/13/14
  19. The Big Idea: Pamela Ribon
  20. Sunset, 2/12/14
  21. Ten Things About Petitions and Freedom of Speech
  22. The Saga of Bob and Vlad, by John Scalzi and Tom Tomorrow
  23. The Big Idea: Andy Weir
  24. Programming Note
  25. Here We Go, Ohio
  26. Today’s General Comment, Apropos of Nothing in Particular
  27. Whoops 8
  28. The Best Fan Art of Me Ever, As of This Moment
  29. Blessed Critters
  30. More on the Redshirts TV Series
  31. Redshirts to Become a Television Series
  32. I Just Heard of Meg Myers Today And Already I Think She’s a Big Deal
  33. What Happens To Your Kid’s Brain When She Has Too Many Snow Days
  34. And Now, an EXCLUSIVE Sneak Preview of My Upcoming Graphic Novel, “Midnight Rises”
  35. Sitting Out Sochi
  36. My Quirky Tribe
  37. New Books/ARCs, 2/5/14
  38. The 2014 SF/F Fans Award Recommendation Thread
  39. Prepping for Snowpocalypse 2: Snowmageddeon
  40. Today’s Books and ARCs, 2/4/14
  41. Group Participation: Good Advice You’ve Gotten on the Craft of Writing
  42. These Books Are Partially My Fault
  43. About That Coke Ad
  44. RIP, Philip Seymour Hoffman

January 2014

  1. I’m Just Going to Leave This Here
  2. How I Knew I’d Made It
  3. And Now, a Brief Phone Text Conversation Between Me and My Daughter
  4. Appearance Schedule Updated: Now Adding Chicago and London (Plus News About Detroit)
  5. The Big Idea: Myke Cole
  6. Little Snow Rollers
  7. The Big Idea: Delilah S. Dawson
  8. How Cold It Is
  9. The Big Idea: James L. Cambias
  10. For Auction: EXTREMELY RARE Bound, Signed Outtakes from LOCK IN, Plus Signed 1st Edition of LOCK IN, for the Worldbuilders Charity
  11. A Convention Harassment Policy in Action
  12. Notes on My Nexus 7
  13. Zeus, 1/26/14
  14. Every Award-Winning Book Sucks (For Someone)
  15. Two Books of Mine That Arrived Yesterday
  16. A Public Service Announcement re: The Hugos, via Twitter
  17. In Which I Sing a Depeche Mode Song For Patrick Rothfuss’ Worldbuilders Charity
  18. I Was Busy All Day Having Meetings and Recording Things and Not Writing, So, Here, Have Another Tinkly Moody Pretty Piano Song
  19. E-Mail Outage Last Night
  20. The Song That’s Playing in the Background When You Break Up That Massively Dramatic High School Relationship in the Imaginary CW Show of Your Life
  21. Some Writery Things on My Mind, 1/22/14
  22. The Big Idea: Lillian Stewart Carl
  23. The Big Idea: Scott Sigler
  24. A Season in the Show
  25. Notes on Harassment Policies, 1/20/14
  26. A Momentary Pause
  27. Traveling Today
  28. Oscar Predictions, 2014
  29. The Big Idea: Kathe Koja
  30. New Book/ARC Arrivals, 1/15/14
  31. The Big Idea: Rachel Cantor
  32. Zeus and Daisy, Just Chillin’, Y’all
  33. The Big Idea: Brad Meltzer
  34. Yes, I Will Be at the Confusion Convention Next Weekend
  35. The Big Idea: PJ Schnyder
  36. 10 Non-SF/F Books That Meant the Most to Me (as a Writer)
  37. Kickstarter is Cool (and Probably Not for Me)
  38. The Latest Bit of Domestic Technology
  39. I Completely Forgot to Update Earlier Today, So Here, Have an Obscure 80s Britpop Tune
  40. The Big Idea: Gard Skinner
  41. The Detcon1 Award for YA/MG; Jim Hines Talks Money
  42. Adam Roberts on SF/F Award Awareness Posts
  43. The Hugo Award Nomination Window is Now Open
  44. The Big Idea: Lissa Price
  45. On Letting People Know About Your Award-Eligible Work
  46. What -8 Temperatures and -35 Wind Chill Look Like
  47. I’m Sick
  48. Whatever’s First Sunset of 2014
  49. Me (and Others) on Teenage Writers, in the Chicago Tribune
  50. A Portrait of the Artist as an Asshole
  51. SF/F Authors/Editors/Artists/Fans 2014 Award Awareness Post
  52. My Totally 22% – 50% Gay Adventure On Twitter Today
  53. The 2014 Award Consideration Post
  54. I Was Going to Write a Post Here in the Doctor’s Waiting Room
  55. Mike Krahulik and His New Year’s Resolution
  56. Happy New Year

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