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December 2018

  1. Out Until January 2, 2019
  2. New Books and ARCs, 12/27/18
  3. Looking Back on 2018, Looking Forward to 2019
  4. Top Whatever Posts and Social Media Stats, 2018
  5. It’s Christmas!
  6. Whatever Best of 2018
  7. 20
  8. New Books and ARCs, 12/21/18
  9. A Christmas Tale, Told On Twitter, Involving Burritos
  10. Have Yourself a Smudgy Little Christmas
  11. An Interview With Santa’s Lawyer
  12. Thoughts on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  13. My Wife is an Angel
  14. A Christmastime Blast From Waaaaaay Back In The Past
  15. Virtue Signaling eBook Now Available (and Hardcover Almost Sold Out!)
  16. Brief Administrative Note
  17. The Big Idea: Chad Orzel
  18. DELICIOUS MADNESS
  19. New Book and ARCs, 12/10/18
  20. In Which This Cat is an Accurate Metaphor For My Brain at the Moment
  21. In Which I Yet Again Massacre an Innocent Song From the 80s
  22. The Color of the Sky On My Homeworld
  23. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2018, Day Five: Charities
  24. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2018, Day Four: Fan Favorites!
  25. The Big Idea: Arwen Elys Dayton
  26. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2018, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More
  27. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2018, Day Two: Non-Traditionally Published Books
  28. An Interesting Fact About The Consuming Fire
  29. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2018, Day One: Traditionally Published Books
  30. Some Observations on Bestseller Lists, December 2018

November 2018

  1. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2018 Starts Monday!
  2. I Meant to Write Something Today But Got Distracted By Cats, So Here’s a Photo of Krissy
  3. Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies — Hardcover Available Early!
  4. I’ve Been Busy the Last Couple of Days With Projects I Can’t Tell You About Yet, So, Here, Enjoy This Cat Picture
  5. New Books and ARCs, 11/23/18
  6. A Thanksgiving Day Thought
  7. Me and Cixin Liu in San Diego
  8. A Thanksgiving Week Gift for You: “Automated Customer Service”
  9. Krissy, 11/17/18
  10. New Books and ARCs, 11/16/18
  11. The Big Idea: Steve Nedvidek
  12. What a Difference a Week Makes
  13. And Now Are All My Travels Ended, 2018 Edition
  14. The Big Idea: Nancy Kress
  15. View From a Hotel Window, 11/12/18: San Diego
  16. How to Get Signed and Personalized Books From Me For the Holidays, 2018
  17. Taking Pictures With the Pixel 3: Some Thoughts
  18. Wandering Through Paris: A Photo Album
  19. The Big Idea: Alexandra Rowland
  20. Heading Home, 11/7/18
  21. Head On AND The Consuming Fire Are Semi-Finalists for the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards
  22. View From a Hotel Window, 11/5/18: Paris!
  23. New Books and ARCs, 11/2/18

October 2018

  1. View From a Hotel Window, 10/31/18: Nantes, France
  2. On My Way to France
  3. Tor Announces New Paperback Editions + News re: My 2019 Publishing Schedule
  4. My French Events!
  5. View Not From a Hotel Window, 10/29/18
  6. View From a Hotel Window, 10/27/18: Austin, TX
  7. View From a Hotel Window, 10/26/18: Charleston, WV
  8. Notes and Advice From a Book Tour
  9. The Big Idea: Dan Koboldt
  10. View From a Hotel Window 10/25/18: Athens
  11. The Big Idea: Beth Cato
  12. The Consuming Fire: A New York Times and USA Today and Audible Bestseller!
  13. View From a Hotel Window, 10/24/18: Raleigh
  14. View From a Hotel Window, 10/23/18: Chapel Hill!
  15. The Collapsing Tour: One Week In
  16. View From a Hotel Window, 10/22/18: Chicago!
  17. View From a Hotel Window, 10/21/18: Fort Collins
  18. View From a Hotel Window, 10/20/18: Salt Lake City
  19. View From a Hotel Window, 10/19/18: San Francisco
  20. Quick First Impressions of the Pixel 3
  21. View From a Hotel Window, 10/18/18: Los Angeles
  22. The Big Idea: K. Bird Lincoln
  23. View From a Hotel Window, 10/17/18: Portland
  24. Housekeeping Notes, 10/17/18
  25. The Big Idea: Steven Erikson
  26. View From a Hotel Window, 10/16/18: Seattle
  27. The Consuming Fire is Out and I’m On Tour!
  28. Smudge: Very Tired and a Little Bit Stoned
  29. The New Thing I’ll Be Doing This Tour: The Element of Chance
  30. How to Get Signed Copies of The Consuming Fire: The Informational Post
  31. The Big Idea: Ryk E. Spoor
  32. It’s Woolly Bear Season
  33. New Books and ARCs, 10/12/18
  34. Father-Daughter Voting
  35. A Decade of WordPress Hosting (Or, This Year’s Annual Unsolicited Endorsement)
  36. The Big Idea: Jennifer Estep
  37. The Existential Loneliness of an Empty Carnival Ride
  38. October Flowers
  39. The Consuming Fire Contest Winner + Notes One Week Out From Release
  40. The Big Idea: Amy S. Foster
  41. Win a Signed, Personalized Copy of The Consuming Fire
  42. The Big Idea: D.B. Jackson
  43. Acrobat at the Renaissance Festival, 10/7/18
  44. The Big Idea: Julie E. Czerneda
  45. View From a Hotel Window, 10/4/18: Minneapolis
  46. The Big Idea: J. Lincoln Fenn
  47. Meanwhile, This Song
  48. The Big Idea: Marshall Ryan Maresca
  49. The News is a Trashfire Today, So Here’s a Rainbow
  50. The Big Idea: Charlie Jane Anders
  51. Sugar Watches You From Above
  52. The Big Idea: Ashley and Leslie Saunders

September 2018

  1. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Thirty: Time
  2. Krissy Gets Ready For October
  3. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Twenty-Nine: Death
  4. New Books and ARCs, 9/28/18
  5. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Twenty-Eight: Age
  6. The Whatever Digest, 9/28/18
  7. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Twenty-Seven: Fame
  8. The Whatever Digest, 9/27/18
  9. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Twenty-Six: Ego
  10. The Whatever Digest, 9/26/18
  11. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Twenty-Five: Writing
  12. The Big Idea: Ryan North
  13. My Home Internet is Down and My Cell Phone Hotspot Connection is Totally Crawling so No Whatever Digest Today
  14. The Whatever Digest, 9/24/18
  15. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Twenty-Four: Reading
  16. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Twenty-Three: Technology
  17. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Twenty-Two: Taste
  18. New Books and ARCs, 9/21/18
  19. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Twenty-One: New York
  20. The Whatever Digest, 9/21/18
  21. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Twenty: Sunsets
  22. The Big Idea: Cheryl Low
  23. The Whatever Digest, 9/20/18
  24. New Books and ARCs, 9/19/18
  25. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Nineteen: Hobbies
  26. No Whatever Digest Today But Here’s a Picture of Smudge Looking Like He’s Just Seen the Boogeyman
  27. The Big Idea: Myke Cole
  28. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Eighteen: Health
  29. The Big Idea: Edward Willett
  30. The Whatever Digest, 9/18/18
  31. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Seventeen: Kids
  32. The Whatever Digest, 9/17/18
  33. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Sixteen: Hair
  34. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Fifteen: Music
  35. New Books and ARCs, 9/14/18
  36. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Fourteen: Day Jobs
  37. The Whatever Digest, 9/14/18
  38. The Whatever Digest, 9/13/18
  39. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Thirteen: Whatever
  40. Announcing Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies: Selected Writings From Whatever 2013 – 2018
  41. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Twelve: Travel
  42. The Whatever Digest, 9/12/18
  43. Sunset, 9/11/18
  44. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Eleven: Personal Politics
  45. The Big Idea: Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
  46. The Whatever Digest 9/11/18
  47. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Ten: Spouse
  48. The Whatever Digest, 9/10/18
  49. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Nine: Weight
  50. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Eight: Cars
  51. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Seven: Friends
  52. The Whatever Digest, 9/7/18
  53. Hey, Wanna See the First Chapter of The Consuming Fire?
  54. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Six: Presidents
  55. The Big Idea: Jaine Fenn
  56. The Whatever Digest, 9/6/18
  57. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Five: Social Media
  58. The Big Idea: Michael J. Martinez
  59. The Whatever Digest, 9/5/18
  60. The Big Idea: Greg Van Eekhout
  61. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Four: Books
  62. The Whatever Digest, 9/4/18
  63. Kitten in a Trashcan + Announcing Daily Digest
  64. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Three: Home
  65. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day Two: Money
  66. 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20, Day One: Cats
  67. Announcing 1998/2018: Whatever 20/20

August 2018

  1. New Books and ARCs, 8/31/18
  2. The Other Cats
  3. New Books and ARCs, 8/30/18
  4. Checking in With Smudge
  5. And Now, a Word From 20-Year-Old Me: A Review of Depeche Mode’s “Violator”
  6. Two Weeks of Books
  7. Travel Day
  8. This Is Goodnight and Not Goodbye
  9. View From a Hotel Window, 8/24/18: Albuquerque
  10. The Anxiety of a Non-Writer Surrounded By Writers
  11. My Slightly Longer Worldcon Recap
  12. Announcing the Consuming Tour, October 16 – 28, 2018!
  13. View From a Hotel Window, 8/21/18: Scottsdale
  14. Some Fantastic, Awesome, Super Cool Music
  15. Quick Hugo Update
  16. Sunday Smupdate!
  17. An Interesting Song I Found
  18. Gearing Up For Back to School
  19. View From a Hotel Window, 8/15/18: San Jose
  20. Learn More About Me: My Favorite Movie
  21. A Pre-Worldcon Q&A
  22. We Interrupt Your Monday For This Very Important Picture of Smudge
  23. Kayaking at Lodi Lake
  24. New Books and ARCs, 8/10/18
  25. What You Should Be Watching: YouTube Edition: Binging With Babish
  26. My Worldcon Schedule
  27. Diego and Lola!
  28. My High School Gets It Right
  29. The Greatest Burgers In the World
  30. An August Hemi-Demi-Semi Hiatus
  31. This Song Is In My Head So It Must Be In Yours
  32. New Books and ARCs, 8/3/18
  33. Here’s a Lil’ Something I Wrote For Creative Writing Class
  34. The Gamification of Rhetoric
  35. The Big Idea: Michael Mammay
  36. Sunset 8/1/18
  37. A Summary of How the Rest of My Trip To NYC Went

July 2018

  1. The Big Idea: Claire O’Dell
  2. Whoops It’s Past 6pm and I Haven’t Posted Today So Here’s a Video of a Song I Like
  3. The Locus Award Arrives + Reminder About Hugo Award Voting
  4. The End (Sort Of) Of the Landline
  5. Today’s Somewhat Unfortunate Event Involving a Kitten
  6. Crab Cakes, Ocean’s 8, the Ferry, and the Republic of Booza
  7. The Big Idea: Theodora Goss
  8. A Little More On Recent Worldcon Stuff
  9. The Big Idea: Craig DiLouie
  10. The Love-Hate Relationship With Travel
  11. The Big Idea: Kali Wallace
  12. Beat Saber: AKA the Coolest Game Ever
  13. Being Seen at Worldcon
  14. That Tor Library eBook Lending Thing
  15. Travel Itinerary Plus Photos
  16. News Books and ARCs, 7/20/18
  17. View From a Hotel Window, 7/20/18: Cleveland
  18. Learn More About Me: My Favorite Anime
  19. The Big Idea: Jason Denzel
  20. You Deserve A Flower
  21. View From a Hotel Window, 7/18/18 : Cincinnati
  22. The Big Idea: Nicole Kornher-Stace
  23. Sunset 7/17/18
  24. The Big Idea: James Patrick Kelly
  25. And Now a Brief Procedural Update on The Consuming Fire
  26. The Big Idea: Wendy Nikel
  27. The Bright Side
  28. Smupdate
  29. New Books and ARCs, 7/13/18
  30. The Big Idea: Raz Greenberg
  31. What You Should Be Watching: Final Space
  32. The Big Idea: Jay Schiffman
  33. My Three Sons, One a Parrot: A Twitter Story
  34. The Big Idea: Ruthanna Emrys
  35. What Does Death Look Like?
  36. Private Lives in a Public Era
  37. John and Athena Talk About Stuff, Episode Three: Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
  38. And Now, For Your Summer Monday Viewing Pleasure, My Backyard Maple
  39. Saturday Afternoon Catnapping, Starring Smudge
  40. Store-Bought VS Food Network Recipe: Butternut Squash Soup
  41. Keep Scott Pruitt Moist: The Dramatic Reading
  42. New Books and ARCs, 7/6/18
  43. Nanette, Hannah Gadsby and Me
  44. The Big Idea: Mary Robinette Kowal
  45. Smudge & Zeus
  46. The Big Idea: T.J. Berry
  47. What You Should Be Watching: The Hollow
  48. Happy July 4th, Here’s Smudge Playing Fetch
  49. Kings Island: What to See, What to Ride
  50. An Addendum to An Addendum
  51. The Big Idea: Francesco Dimitri
  52. The Greatest Soundtrack You Will Ever Hear
  53. Childhood Candy
  54. More Things I Don’t Miss

June 2018

  1. The Language of Memes: A Brief Explanation
  2. Important Update: The Kitten Has a Name
  3. New Book and ARCs, 6/29/18
  4. And Now, This Important Kitten Update
  5. What You Should Be Watching: YouTube Edition: Movies With Mikey
  6. RIP, Harlan Ellison
  7. Where I’ve Been the Past Ten Days
  8. Sunset 6/27/18
  9. Surprise! Kitten!
  10. The Big Idea: Jeremy Finley
  11. Congratulations Deven and Claudia
  12. The Collapsing Empire Wins the 2018 Locus Award for Science Fiction Novel
  13. View From a Hotel Window, 6/22/18: San Diego
  14. And Now, Some One-Star Reviews of The Collapsing Empire
  15. New Books and ARCs, 6/21/18
  16. The Big Idea: Daniel Godfrey
  17. John and Athena Talk About Stuff, Episode 2: The Incredibles 2
  18. The (Reluctant) Endorsement: Freedom
  19. The Big Idea: Todd McAulty
  20. More on The Consuming Fire and Future Writing Plans
  21. The Big Idea: C.L. Polk
  22. Portrait of the Artist as Someone Who is So Very Done With His Book, 6/18/18
  23. The Consuming Fire: Done!
  24. Happy Father’s Day!
  25. A True Gem More People Should Know About: The Road to El Dorado
  26. Playing Favorites With My Cats
  27. 24,25,23 Years
  28. A Visit to the Farmer’s Market
  29. Red
  30. What You Should Be Watching: YouTube Edition: “Entertaining With Beth”
  31. The Big Idea: Kelly Jennings
  32. Get Your Dance On!
  33. Portrait of the Artist On Deadline, 6/9/18
  34. The Gray-Eyed Goddess
  35. New Books and ARCs, 6/8/18
  36. Voez
  37. Hay Baling, 6/7/18
  38. The Big Idea: Joshua Viola
  39. Everything Is Awesome!
  40. John and Athena Talk About Stuff, Episode One: Deadpool 2
  41. An Now, an EXCLUSIVE Sneak Preview of the Work Currently in Progress
  42. Thoughts of a Personal Nature
  43. Fyi
  44. More Photography!
  45. Sunset, 6/1/18
  46. New Books and ARCs, 6/1/18
  47. My Herb Garden!

May 2018

  1. A Non-Intern Take on Solo
  2. The Big Idea: Brenda Clough
  3. Volunteering at the Humane Society of Preble County
  4. YouTube Shorts
  5. The First Strawberries of Summer
  6. What You Should Be Watching: Voltron: Legendary Defender
  7. Headed Home + Posting Through 6/15
  8. Automattic Updates Its Privacy Policy
  9. Solo: A Star Wars Story Review
  10. New Books and ARCs, 5/25/18
  11. And Now, a Quick Update From Phoenix
  12. Have Some Photos!
  13. Music Time!
  14. View From a Hotel Window, 5/23/18: Phoenix
  15. Scalzi at Phoenix Comic Fest This Weekend
  16. Watermelon Salsa!
  17. A Quick Note About Whatever, Your Data and GDPR
  18. New Books and ARCs, 5/21/18
  19. Hello, Whatever World!
  20. The Big Idea: Cat Rambo
  21. Easing Back Into the World
  22. The Big Idea: Nicola Griffith
  23. Taking the Week Off From the World
  24. Happy Mother’s Day
  25. Reader Request Week 2018 #10: Short Bits
  26. Reader Request Week 2018 #9: Writing Short Bits
  27. New Books and ARCs, 5/11/18
  28. Reader Request Week 2018 #8: Public Speaking
  29. Reader Request Week 2018 #7: Mortality
  30. Happy Birthday to Me, Here’s a Story For You: “Regarding Your Application Status”
  31. 49
  32. Reader Request Week 2018 #6: The Fall(?!?!?) of Heinlein
  33. Reader Request Week 2018 #5: Who’s Cool and Who’s Not
  34. Reader Request Week 2018 #4: Far-Left(?) Scalzi
  35. Reader Request Week 2018 #3: The Reputational Reset, Or Not
  36. Reader Request Week 2018 #2: Our Pets and How We Treat Them
  37. Reader Request Week 2018 #1: Incels and Other Misogynists
  38. Sunset 5/6/18
  39. Reader Request Week 2018: Get Your Questions In!
  40. New Books and ARCs, 5/2/18
  41. An Actual Conversation I Had This Morning
  42. Old Office Chair, New Office Chair
  43. New Books and ARCs, 5/1/18
  44. First of May, First of May

April 2018

  1. New Books and ARCs, 4/30/18
  2. The Big Idea: Tiffany Trent & Stephanie Burgis
  3. Thoughts on Avengers: Infinity War (and Yes, There are Spoilers)
  4. Announcing Whatever’s First Ever Summer Intern
  5. View Not From a Hotel Window 4/26/18: Bradford, OH
  6. View From a Hotel Window, 4/25/18: Washington DC
  7. View From a Hotel Window, 4/24/18: New York City
  8. The Big Idea: Bryan Camp
  9. View From a Hotel Window, 4/23/18: St. Louis
  10. The Big Idea: Jack McDevitt
  11. View From a Hotel Window, 4/20: Los Angeles
  12. View From a Hotel Window, 4/19/18: Minneapolis
  13. The Big Idea: Jerry Gordon
  14. View From a Hotel Window, 4/18/18: Iowa City
  15. Happy Birthday Krissy
  16. View From a Hotel Window 4/17/18: Ann Arbor, MI (Plus: Release Dates in 2005 and Today)
  17. Head On is Out! How to Get It, Where to See Me, and Introducing the Theme Song
  18. It’s New Shirt Time!
  19. New Books and ARCs, 4/13/18
  20. The Big Idea: Catherynne M. Valente
  21. New Books and ARCs, 4/11/18
  22. Finally a True Sign of Spring
  23. The Big Idea: Ilana C. Myer
  24. One Week Until Head On
  25. The Big Idea: The Oracle Year
  26. And Now, Almost Entirely to Shove the Picture of Me at the Hospital Down the Page a Bit, Here’s Me Wearing a Clown Nose
  27. How I Spent My Afternoon
  28. The Big Idea: Leo Carew
  29. I Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny That I Am A Timeless Goofy Immortal
  30. The Big Idea: John Schwartz
  31. The Summer Kills: “Collide”
  32. Consuming Fire UK Cover Reveal + Head On Gender Thoughts
  33. What The Hell, April Fool’s Snow Storm: A Photo Essay

March 2018

  1. Thoughts On This Year’s Hugo Finalist Ballot
  2. 2018 Hugo Award Finalists (Plus Campbell and YA Award Finalists)
  3. New Books and ARCs, 3/30/18
  4. In Which Amber Benson and Wil Wheaton Talk About Narrating Head On + Audio Excerpt Mashup
  5. Reminder: Signed/Personalized Copies of Head On Still Available Through Subterranean Press
  6. To The People Who Are Concerned That I’m Blogging a Bit Less Recently
  7. Sunset, 3/25/18
  8. About That March
  9. New Books and ARCs, 3/23/18
  10. Okay, But, Seriously, Spring, What the Actual Hell
  11. Hey, I Feel Like Giving Away This ARC of Head On, If You Want It Let Me Know
  12. No, In Fact, You Should Not Write For Free
  13. I Just Realized I Totally Spaced On Posting Today, So Here’s a Cat Picture
  14. A Durham Bull Stares Into Your Soul
  15. Reminder: Get Your Hugo Nominations In!
  16. Read the Prologue of Head On!
  17. Announcing the Signed, Limited Edition of The Human Division From Subterranean Press
  18. Thoughts on A Wrinkle in Time
  19. New Books and ARCs, 3/9/18
  20. The Big Idea: Nancy Kress
  21. The Dispatcher is now a New York Times Bestseller
  22. Head On Cover Flats
  23. Your Super Large Slice of Ham For the Day: Me Singing “Jack’s Lament”
  24. Art and Entertainment and Neil deGrasse Tyson
  25. The Big Idea: Jane Yolen
  26. Checking In On the (Lack Of) News
  27. A Sunbow to Start Your Week
  28. 20 Years of Scalzi.com
  29. New Books and ARCs, 3/2/18
  30. The Big Idea: Alan Baxter
  31. The Big Idea: Rachel Hartman

February 2018

  1. Oh, And: Krissy
  2. Photos From the JoCo Cruise Loreto Concert, 2018
  3. The Big Idea: Rachel A. Marks
  4. Sunset, 2/27/18
  5. The Big Idea: Tobias Buckell
  6. View From a Hotel Window, 2/26/18: Hoboken
  7. Back From JoCo Cruise
  8. The Big Idea: Myke Cole
  9. Out For a Bit
  10. Whoops, I Forgot To Update Today, So Here, Have Some Music
  11. Thoughts on Pixel Buds
  12. The Big Idea: Karen Healey
  13. Cover Reveal of The Consuming Fire Over at Verge
  14. The New Guitar, and a Small Observation About Being a Dick
  15. New Books and ARCs, 2/9/18
  16. 10 Years of Big Ideas at Whatever
  17. The Big Idea: Sue Burke
  18. Whoops 10
  19. The Big Idea: Jasmine Gower
  20. Kirkus Review of Head On
  21. Head On: Tour Schedule and Signed Pre-Orders via Subterranean Press
  22. New Books and ARCs, 2/2/18
  23. Attention: Book Name Change for The Widening Gyre
  24. The Collapsing Empire and Don’t Live For Your Obituary on the Locus Recommended Reading List

January 2018

  1. Talking About Writing Income, or Not
  2. The Big Idea: David Mack
  3. Meet Keith Johnson
  4. Moon Through the Trees, 1/28/18
  5. Kristine, 1/27/18
  6. New Books and ARCs, 1/26/18
  7. Producer’s Guild of America Anti-Sexual Harassment Guidelines (and Me)
  8. Art and Entertainment and Commerciality
  9. The Big Idea: Brooke Bolander
  10. John Picacio Offering Worldcon Memberships to Mexicanx Fans and Creators
  11. RIP, Ursula K. Le Guin
  12. First Pass Oscar Predictions, 2018
  13. The Big Idea: S. Craig Zahler
  14. First Impressions: Google Pixelbook
  15. Confusion in Black and White
  16. Regarding a Recent SFWA Action
  17. It’s Been That Kind of Day, So Please Accept This Picture of a Cat Who Is, Frankly, All Over Your Brand of Nonsense
  18. The Big Idea: Jason Franks
  19. A Thought, Not Random But Possibly Not All That Consequential
  20. Sunset, 1/14/18
  21. New Books and ARCs, 1/12/18
  22. Trump is a Racist. Stop Pretending Otherwise.
  23. My Wacky Video Game Mouse/Keyboard Control Scheme
  24. The Big Idea: Michael Moreci
  25. Luuuuurrrgh
  26. Four Views of the Same Short Story
  27. Robots Vs. Fairies is Here!
  28. The Big Idea: Marieke Nijkamp
  29. Scamperfight!
  30. Obnoxious Twits and Conventions
  31. New Books and ARCs, 1/5/18
  32. Thoughts on My 30th High School Reunion
  33. Hey, You Know What’s Fun?
  34. The 2018 Awards Consideration Post
  35. The Collapsing Empire Out in Paperback Today
  36. Hey, Scalzi, Got Any New Year’s Resolutions?

2017 459

December 2017

  1. Sunset, 12/31/17
  2. Don’t Live For Your Obituary is Out!
  3. Daisy, 2007 – 2017
  4. New Books and ARCs 12/29/17
  5. 2017 Recap + What’s On Tap For 2018
  6. Sunsets, 2017
  7. 2017 Top Ten Whatever Posts + Social Media Stats
  8. I Present To You Our Big Holiday Purchase
  9. 2017 Portraiture (Non-Related Edition)
  10. Merry Catmas!
  11. Whatever Best of 2017
  12. Google Search Updates Take a Personalized Turn
  13. 19
  14. New Books and ARCs, 12/22/17
  15. New Books and ARCs, 12/21/17
  16. Quick Thoughts on the Google Home Max
  17. Please Enjoy the Scalzi Family 2017 Holiday Card
  18. New Books and ARCs, 12/20/17
  19. Hey, I Did An “Ask Me Anything” Q&A on Reddit
  20. Head On Post-Writing Post
  21. Head On: Done
  22. How We Spoil Our Cats, December 2017 Edition
  23. Spoiler-Free Observations on The Last Jedi
  24. I’m Still Finishing the Book, So Here’s a Picture of a Cat, Plus Another Question
  25. A Question For You Whilst I Finish My Book
  26. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2017, Day Five: Charities
  27. Old Man’s War in Development at Netflix
  28. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2017, Day Four: Fan Favorites!
  29. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2017, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More
  30. “Don’t Live For Your Obituary” Arrives at the Scalzi Compound
  31. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2017, Day Two: Non-Traditionally Published Books
  32. The Big Idea: Ryk E. Spoor
  33. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2017, Day One: Traditionally Published Books
  34. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2017 Starts Monday!

November 2017

  1. Away From the Internet Through 12/3
  2. Athena, 11/22/17
  3. The Big Idea: Molly Tanzer
  4. Sunset and Moon, 11/20/17
  5. The Big Idea: Tracy Townsend
  6. Cat Amongst the Stringed Instruments
  7. New Books and ARCs, 11/17/17
  8. The Big Idea: Matthew De Abaitua
  9. The Big Idea: Leanna Renee Hieber
  10. The Collapsing Empire a Finalist for the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award in Science Fiction — Vote This Week
  11. The Big Idea: K.C. Alexander
  12. A Q&A For the Post-Weinstein Era
  13. How to Get Signed and Personalized Books From Me For the Holidays, 2017
  14. The Big Idea: James Alan Gardner
  15. Full Review of the Pixel 2
  16. The Difference a Day Makes
  17. The Big Idea: Fonda Lee
  18. Four Views of the Same Wife
  19. The Big Idea: Hank Early
  20. The Big Idea: Tim Pratt
  21. Today’s New Toy: The Pixel 2
  22. New Books and ARCs, 11/3/17
  23. Rocket Man (Thumpy Asteroid Mix)
  24. Weinstein, Ratner, Toback, Etc
  25. Doing My Part for ACA Open Enrollment Awareness
  26. Two Years of Scamperbeastery

October 2017

  1. Reviews: Wolfenstein II and Stranger Things 2
  2. My Halloween Self-Portrait, 2017
  3. The Big Idea: Myke Cole
  4. ZOMG DUDES INDICTMENTS
  5. New Books and ARCs 10/27/17 + a Mildly Annoyed Twitter Thread
  6. Scalzi and Munro in Fresno
  7. RIP, Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse
  8. Chromebooks and Photoediting
  9. New Books and ARCs, 10/26/17
  10. Google Home Mini First Impressions
  11. 22 Years and Some-Odd Months
  12. Lots and Lots of Photos From My High School Reunion
  13. The Big Idea: Gregory Manchess
  14. Back From California
  15. The Dispatcher eBook 99 Cents on Amazon Today Only (10/19/17)
  16. Quick Check-In
  17. Old Man’s War Now Out in Mini Hardcover
  18. The Big Idea: Elizabeth Bonesteel
  19. Sacramento Photos
  20. Naming a Thing
  21. “Don’t Live For Your Obituary” Review in Publishers Weekly + Subterranean Press eBook Direct Ordering
  22. My Annual Unsolicited Endorsement of WordPress, 2017 Edition
  23. The Big Idea: David Siegel Bernstein
  24. The Big Idea: Felicity Banks
  25. New Book and ARCs, 10/11/17
  26. The Big Idea: Elizabeth Bear
  27. Harvey Weinstein and Other Abusers
  28. The Big Idea: Matt Harry
  29. Reminder: Don’t Send Me Story Ideas
  30. I Totally Called This
  31. Oh, Deer
  32. Admire My Warty Gourd
  33. The Mill in the Woods
  34. The Big Idea: Kat Howard
  35. The Big Idea: Walter Jon Williams
  36. A Brief Addendum to “Word Counts and Writing Process”
  37. The Big Idea: David Walton
  38. Amish on the Highway
  39. The Big Idea: Nick Mamatas and Molly Tanzer
  40. 2017, Word Counts and Writing Process
  41. RIP Tom Petty
  42. Emergency Pet Pictures Deployed

September 2017

  1. New Books and ARCs, 9/29/17
  2. The Big Idea: Jon McGoran
  3. The Big Idea: Alethea Kontis
  4. The Piece I Wrote For This Evening is Totally Not Relevant Anymore, So Please Enjoy This Cool Picture of a Stick Bug That Was On My Sliding Glass Door Instead
  5. That’s So Weird + A Couple of Big Idea Updates
  6. Sunset 9/25/17
  7. Can You Tell My Earnings From My Amazon Sales? Spoiler: Nope, Not at All
  8. Out For the Weekend
  9. New Books and ARCs, 9/22/17
  10. The Collapsing Empire an Audible Deal of the Day
  11. The First Sunset of Fall, 2017
  12. Today is International I’m Busy So Here’s a Picture of Krissy Day
  13. Why I Had a Good Tuesday This Week
  14. The Big Idea: Fran Wilde
  15. View From a Hotel Window, 9/19/17: Chicago
  16. The Big Idea: Annalee Newitz
  17. Today in I Need a Better Class of Detractor
  18. The Big Idea: Douglas Wynne
  19. New Books and ARCs, 9/15/17
  20. A Spiderweb Collection
  21. The Big Idea: Claire Eddy, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Anoud and Dr. Zhraa Alhaboby
  22. Fogbow!
  23. Sunset, 9/14/17
  24. The Big Idea: Axie Oh
  25. 19 Years
  26. The Big Idea: TR Cameron
  27. The Big Idea: Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law
  28. A Surprising Consanguinity, Starring Me and Chuck Wendig, Featuring Neil Gaiman, Mikey Neumann and Athena Scalzi
  29. New Books and ARCs, 9/11/17
  30. The Death of an iPod Nano
  31. The Big Idea: Catherynne M. Valente
  32. Which John Scalzi Novel Should I Read First?
  33. RIP, Jerry Pournelle
  34. New Books and ARCs, 9/8/17
  35. The Big Idea: Ferrett Steinmetz
  36. Yes, I’ve Heard About the New South Park Game’s Difficulty Settings
  37. The Big Idea: Max Gladstone
  38. Sunset, 9/6/17
  39. The Big Idea: Michael J. Martinez
  40. 2017 and Writing
  41. Labor Day Weekend Photos
  42. View From a Hotel Window 9/1/17: Washington DC
  43. The Big Idea: Katherine Locke

August 2017

  1. In Which I Am Interviewed For an Hour on the Subject of Photography
  2. Enjoy This Cover of the German Edition of The Collapsing Empire
  3. The Big Idea: Alan Gratz
  4. Reminder: I’m at the National Book Festival This Saturday
  5. September Big Idea Slots Are Filled
  6. Audie Meets Spice
  7. The Big Idea: Jaym Gates
  8. New Books and ARCs, 8/28/17
  9. A Very Noisy Cover of Nobody’s Diary
  10. Porch Tiger
  11. College Delivery Day Update
  12. The End of Summer, and Other Things
  13. Genius and Master
  14. A Small But Important Change
  15. My Personal Feminism, 2017
  16. Our Eclipse Here in Bradford
  17. Whatever Security Update
  18. New Books and ARCs, 8/18/17
  19. The Big Idea: Anna Smith Spark
  20. Writing About Later, Now: Harder Than It Used to Be
  21. The Big Idea: Stella Parks
  22. The Big Idea: Beth Cato
  23. A Poll About Beds
  24. Three Views of a Sunset, 8/13/17
  25. The Moral Shambles That is Our President
  26. Hugo Notes 2017
  27. To The Barricades, With Refreshments
  28. New Books and ARCs, 8/11/17
  29. Twitter Jokes: Punchline First(?)
  30. Update on the Dragon Awards and Me
  31. The Big Idea: Kathe Koja
  32. And Now, The Moment You’ve All Been Waiting For: My Review of Coke Zero Sugar
  33. Sadly Appropriate For the Day
  34. Withdrawing From the Dragon Awards, 2017
  35. In Which I Photomanipulate a Picture of Krissy Into a Terrifying Shark-Like Version of Herself
  36. The Collapsing Empire a Finalist for the Dragon Award
  37. New Books and ARCs, 8/4/17
  38. I’ll Be at the National Book Festival the First Weekend of September
  39. Today in Dogs and Cats Living Together
  40. Wonder Woman: A Smash, Possibly in Different Ways Than You Think
  41. Another ARC Contest for Don’t Live For Your Obituary
  42. In Which I Finally Derive Streaming Income From My Album of Music
  43. The Big Idea: Daniel H. Wilson

July 2017

  1. Sugar Wishes to Inform You That All the August Big Idea Slots Have Been Scheduled
  2. Kicked Out of My Office
  3. New Books and ARCs, 7/28/17
  4. So, Healthcare, 7/28/17
  5. The Big Idea: Adam Christopher
  6. A Note on Trump’s Proposed Ban of Transgender People in the Military
  7. Is This The End of Our Hero, Coke Zero, Part II: The Zeroening
  8. The Big Idea: Vivian Shaw
  9. The UK Cover to Head On
  10. The Big Idea: Tal M. Klein
  11. My Morning in My Bedroom With Strange Men, a Tale From Twitter
  12. The Winner of the “Obit” ARC Contest
  13. A Very Noisy Cover of Here Comes the Rain Again
  14. Blacklight Sunset
  15. New Books and ARCs, 7/21/17
  16. Win This ARC of “Don’t Live For Your Obituary”
  17. Agent to the Stars, 20 Years On
  18. The Big Idea: Nat Segaloff
  19. Getting Lucky With College Costs
  20. The Big Idea: Cassandra Khaw
  21. Making Hay While the Sun Shines
  22. The Big Idea: Michael F. Haspil
  23. Tonight’s Song I am Mangling on the Guitar
  24. Thunderbolts and Lightning
  25. New Books and ARCs, 7/14/17
  26. The Unsolicted Review: Poo-Pourri
  27. How to Screw Up a Triumphant Bestselling Debut
  28. The Big Idea: Jason LaPier
  29. The Big Idea: Christopher Brown
  30. My Twitter Muting Regime, July 2017
  31. The Big Idea: Jennifer Stevenson
  32. The Big Idea: Nancy Kress
  33. Announcing: Don’t Live For Your Obituary, A Collection on Writing, in December, From Subterranean Press
  34. The Big Idea: Sarah Kuhn
  35. Meanwhile In Japan
  36. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 7/7/17
  37. The Big Idea: Edward Willett
  38. Today’s Very Quick Writing Tip
  39. The Big Idea: Sarah Beth Durst
  40. The Big Idea: In Search of Lost Time
  41. How People Get to Whatever, 2017 Midyear Report
  42. The Big Idea: Martha Wells
  43. I Wrote 5500 Words on the Novel Today and My Brain is Mush, So Here Is a Picture of a Cat
  44. In Which I Trespass Against Dan Wells at Denver Comic Con, and He Exacts His Fitting Revenge, a Tale Told in Two Tweets
  45. Denver Comic Con Check-in

June 2017

  1. View From a Hotel Window, 6/30/17: Denver
  2. The Big Idea: Jean Marie Bauhaus
  3. Administrative Note: All July Big Ideas Scheduled
  4. My Denver Comic Con Schedule
  5. New Books and ARCs, 6/27/17
  6. The Big Idea: Desirina Boskovich
  7. Harry Potter and the Initially Dismissive But Ultimately Appreciative Fan
  8. Why My Wife is Amazing, Part 73,592
  9. Stars and Fireflies, 6/24/17
  10. Interview, of Me, in Iowa, In Which I Talk About Writing
  11. In Which I Announce My Plan to Hide From the News Until Head On Is Done
  12. A New Addition to the Midnight Star Universe
  13. The Big Idea: Laura Lam
  14. On That GOP Health Care Bill, and Tax Breaks
  15. The Big Idea: Curtis C. Chen
  16. More Fireflies
  17. The Big Idea: Linda Nagata
  18. Putting the Head On Cover Here, Because Why Wouldn’t I
  19. The Big Idea: Theodora Goss
  20. Head On Cover Reveal + Excerpt at EW.com
  21. What We Were Doing, 22 Years Ago Today
  22. Fireflies, 6/16/17
  23. Sunset, 6/16/17
  24. New Books and ARCs, 6/16/17
  25. The Big Idea: Nicky Drayden
  26. How to Get an Old Man’s War eBook Free (in the US/Canada) Through June 21st
  27. The Big Idea: Michael Johnston
  28. New Books and ARCs, 6/14/17
  29. In Lieu of Me Having Anything Particularly Cogent to Say This Afternoon, Please Accept This Picture of a Cat
  30. The Big Idea: Steven R. Boyett
  31. New Books and ARCs, 6/12/17
  32. Two Views of Tonight’s Sunset
  33. Krissy and Daisy Welcome You to the Weekend
  34. Comey at the Senate
  35. Is This the End of Our Hero, Coke Zero?!??!!??!?
  36. New Books and ARCs, 6/8/17
  37. The Big Idea: Catherynne M. Valente
  38. This is a Terrible Pun and I’m Ashamed of Myself for Thinking of It
  39. The Big Idea: A. J. Hartley
  40. The Dispatcher Wins the Audie Award for Best Original Work

May 2017

  1. One Week Break
  2. Sugar and Daisy Pause and Contemplate the True Meaning of Memorial Day
  3. Athena’s Graduation, in Pictures
  4. We’re the Ones Who Wrote the End
  5. New Books and ARCs, 5/26/17
  6. The Poverty “State of Mind”
  7. New Books and ARCs, 5/24/17
  8. And Now, a Trenchant Glimpse Into My Dream Life
  9. The Big Idea: Dan Moren
  10. Taking a News Break
  11. Cory and I Talk at Goodreads
  12. New Books and ARCs, 5/19/17
  13. Once Again News is Coming in Too Fast to Process Intelligently, So Here, Have a Picture of Krissy
  14. The Big Idea: Alan Smale
  15. My Trump Quandary
  16. My Boring Shoes
  17. The Big Idea: James Kakalios
  18. The Big Idea: Megan Whalen Turner
  19. Robots vs. Fairies: I’m In This
  20. Mother’s Day 2017
  21. Hey, Wanna Watch Me and Cory Doctorow Talk for an Hour About Super Nerdy Stuff?
  22. Diversity, Appropriation, Canada (and Me)
  23. That James Comey Thing
  24. New Books and ARCs, 5/12/17
  25. The Dispatcher a Locus Award Finalist!
  26. A Senior Day Moment
  27. The Big Idea: Michele Tracy Berger
  28. 48
  29. The Big Idea: Gregory Benford
  30. Hitting Tech Sufficiency
  31. The Big Idea: Carrie Patel
  32. Prom 2017
  33. New Books and ARCs, 5/5/17
  34. The Big Idea: Gwenda Bond and Christopher Rowe
  35. The Brain Eater
  36. The Beehive Shrinks
  37. New Books and ARCs, 5/2/17
  38. The Big Idea: Malinda Lo and Alaya Dawn Johnson
  39. Catching Up On the News, Alas
  40. May Day Kitten Picture Plus Other Various Things Upon My Return Home
  41. The Dispatcher: Now Out in Print and eBook!

April 2017

  1. And Now Have All My Travels Ended
  2. View From a Hotel Window, 4/28/17: Southfield, MI
  3. View From a Hotel Window 4/26/17: San Francisco
  4. The Big Idea: Maurice Broaddus
  5. Checking In on Monday
  6. View From a Hotel Window, 4/21/17: Los Angeles
  7. View From a Hotel Window, 4/20/17: San Diego
  8. View From a Hotel Window, 4/19/17: Seattle
  9. View From a Hotel Window 4/18/17: Aurora, CO
  10. Today is International Kristine Blauser Scalzi Day
  11. View From a Hotel Window, 4/17/17: Santa Fe
  12. Reader Request Week 2017 Wrapup
  13. Reader Request Week 2017 #10: Short Bits
  14. Reader Request Week 2017 #9: Writery Short Bits
  15. Reader Request Week 2017 #8: The Path to Publication
  16. Reader Request Week 2017 #7: Parents, Their Age, and Their Kids
  17. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 4/13/17
  18. Reader Request Week 2017 #6: Reading as Performance
  19. Reader Request Week 2017 #5: Remembering Dreams
  20. Reader Request Week 2017 #4: Haters and How I Deal With Them
  21. Spring Has Sprung, 2017
  22. Reader Request Week 2017 #3: Utopias
  23. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 4/10/17
  24. Reader Request Week 2017 #2: Those Darn Millennials
  25. Reader Request Week 2017 #1: Punching Nazis
  26. Today’s View From a Window
  27. View From a Hotel Window 4/8/17: Madison
  28. View From a Hotel Window 4/7/17: Northampton
  29. Reader Request Week 2017: Get Your Questions In!
  30. View From a Hotel Window, 4/6/17: Concord
  31. View From a Hotel Window, 4/5/17: Brookline
  32. View From a Hotel Window, 4/4/17: Cleveland!
  33. The Big Idea: Griffin Barber
  34. Kristine, 4/3/17
  35. “What? You’re Going Back On Tour? Again?”
  36. Your April Fool’s Day Fun: Build Your Own Fake Collapsing Empire Cover

March 2017

  1. New Books and ARCs, 3/31/17
  2. Quick Update on Film/TV Stuff
  3. The Collapsing Empire’s First Week
  4. View From a Hotel Window, 3/29/17: Chicago
  5. View From a Hotel Window, 3/28/17: Dallas!
  6. View From a Hotel Window, 3/27/17: Houston!
  7. View From a Hotel Window, 3/26/17: Austin!
  8. The Collapsing Empire and Word Count
  9. View From a Hotel Window 3/25/17: Nashville
  10. New Books and ARCs, 3/24/17
  11. View From a Hotel Window, 3/24/17: Richmond, VA
  12. View From a Hotel Balcony, 3/23/17: Chapel Hill!
  13. The Big Idea: Paul Cornell
  14. View From a Hotel Window, 3/22/17: Raleigh!
  15. The Big Idea: Mishell Baker
  16. View From a Hotel Window 3/21/17: Lexington!
  17. The Collapsing Empire is Here!
  18. How to Get a Signed Copy of The Collapsing Empire
  19. Baja California Sunset
  20. The Big Idea: Marshall Ryan Maresca
  21. The Double Bubble
  22. The Big Idea: Ryk E. Spoor
  23. The Big Idea: Randy Henderson
  24. Athena Gets Into College
  25. New Books and ARCs, 3/14/17
  26. The Big Idea: Tom Merritt
  27. Still Life With Author Copies and Cat, Plus Audiobook News
  28. The Big Idea: Jake Kerr
  29. The JoCo Cruise 2017 Final Concert Photoset
  30. Back From JoCo Cruise
  31. The Big Idea: Cat Sparks
  32. Outta Here
  33. The Big Idea: Jack Cheng
  34. New Books and ARCs
  35. Asus c302ca Update
  36. March/April Big Idea Housekeeping Notes
  37. The Big Idea: Chuck Wendig

February 2017

  1. Chuck, I Am Your Father: Another Bit of Twitter Nonsense Featuring Me and Chuck Wendig
  2. The Big Idea: Erika Lewis
  3. My Brain is Apparently a Fallow Field Today, So Here, Have a Chvrches Video
  4. Today in Portraiture
  5. New Books and ARCs, 2/24/17
  6. The Big Idea: Jake Bible
  7. The New Laptop, February 2017 Edition
  8. The Expanding Tour is Expanding: Santa Fe, NM and Southfield, MI
  9. Reminder: There’s No Such Thing as an Automatic Award Nomination
  10. On the Matter of Empathy For Horrible People
  11. The Big Idea: Meg Elison
  12. Quick Note re: Comments
  13. The Last Temptation of Chuck Wendig: A Twitter Tale, Involving a Liverwurst Burrito
  14. Hamilton, and Thoughts on the Uncanny Valley of Musicals
  15. Leaving New York
  16. Today’s Visit to the Central Park Zoo, In Tweets
  17. The Big Idea: Matt Ruff
  18. View From a Hotel Window, 2/16/17: New York
  19. New Books and ARCs, 2/15/17
  20. The Collapsing Empire Review in Booklist + Chapters One and Two (and Soon Three) On Tor.Com
  21. The Big Idea: Jacqueline Carey
  22. The View From the Top of Amazon’s Heap
  23. One Day eBook Sale: Old Man’s War series + Redshirts, Lock In and Fuzzy Nation, $2.99 Each
  24. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 2/10/17
  25. Three Weeks Into Trump’s America
  26. The Big Idea: Kameron Hurley
  27. “The Dispatcher” a Finalist for Two Audies + Locus Award Voting + Nebula and Hugo Award Voting + Print Preorder Info
  28. Announcing the 2017 Audie Award Finalists in the Fantasy Category
  29. The Big Idea: Stephen H. Provost
  30. Announcing The Expanding Tour 2017! 24 Cities! Five Weeks!
  31. The Big Idea: Lara Elena Donnelly
  32. In Which the Eternal Question of “What Would It Sound Like If Morrissey’s ‘Every Day Is Like Sunday’ Was Covered as Dark Ambient With a Cookie Monster Singer?” Is Answered
  33. The Big Idea: Ryan David Jahn
  34. New Books and ARCs, 2/3/17
  35. The Big Idea: Fonda Lee
  36. The Big Idea: Jess Nevins
  37. Crescent Moon, 2/1/17
  38. In Which a Cover Strapline Does Not, Alas, Reveal a Vast Conspiracy For My Benefit
  39. The Big Idea: Thoraiya Dyer

January 2017

  1. A Fortnight of Trump
  2. The Big Idea: Mur Lafferty
  3. Sun Pillar, 1/30/17
  4. New Books and ARCs, 1/30/17
  5. This is My Life This Weekend
  6. Publishers Weekly Review of The Collapsing Empire
  7. I Was Going To Post a Roundup of All the Nonsense of Trump’s First Week as President, But Then I Decided You’d Probably Like These Pet Pictures Better
  8. The Big Idea: Charles Stross
  9. New Books and ARCs, 1/24/17
  10. 2017 First Pass Oscar Predictions
  11. The Big Idea: Lawrence Millman
  12. RIP, Larry Smith
  13. Kirkus Review of The Collapsing Empire
  14. ConFusion 2017 in Photos
  15. What I Did With My Weekend
  16. The Big Idea: Tim Lees
  17. New Books and ARCs, 1/18/17
  18. The Beginning of the Trump Years
  19. The End of the Obama Years
  20. The Big Idea: Veronica Roth
  21. A Boy and His Hat
  22. View From a Hotel Window, 1/12/17: Boston
  23. So I Spent My Entire Day Dealing With a Recalcitrant iPhone Upgrade and the Result is I Want to Murder Everything and Everyone, and Am Thus Not Fit Company For Other Humans, So Here, Have a Picture of a Cat
  24. The Big Idea: Nick Cutter
  25. Reminder to Authors: Route Blurb Requests Through Editors/Publicists
  26. New LA Times Article, Plus Thoughts on Essays
  27. The Big Idea: Rusty Coats
  28. I Completely Lost Track of Time Today and This Evening’s Sunset is a Total Bust, So Here, Have Yesterday’s Sunset Instead
  29. The 2017 Awards Consideration Post
  30. Miniatures Audiobook is Out
  31. Mark It
  32. Sunset, 1/1/17
  33. The New Year and the Bend of the Arc

2016 432

December 2016

  1. Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi is Out!
  2. New Books and ARCs, 12/30/16
  3. Some Reasons 2016 Didn’t Entirely Suck, at Least for Me
  4. Some Things I Plan to Do in 2017, Not Work Related
  5. Work Life 2017
  6. 2016 Top Ten Whatever Posts + Social Media Stats
  7. RIP Carrie Fisher
  8. Read an Excerpt From The Collapsing Empire
  9. George Michael + A Trump Christmas Carol
  10. A Seasonal Greeting From Daisy
  11. Whatever Best of 2016
  12. New Books and ARCs, 12/23/16
  13. 18
  14. My Writing Brain is Still Apparently Telling Me to Screw Off, So Here’s a Picture of a Cat Looking Heroically Into the Distance Instead
  15. My Problem Right Now
  16. New Books and ARCs, 12/20/16
  17. The Big Idea: Alan Baxter
  18. Golden Hour, 12/19/16
  19. Rogue One, or, the Disneyfication of Star Wars is Complete (and This is a Good Thing)
  20. New Books and ARCs, 12/16/16
  21. The Big Idea: Monica Valentinelli
  22. Athena, on the Occasion of (Probably) Her Last Day as a High School Student
  23. It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
  24. So Who Won the ARC for The Dispatcher?
  25. Hey, I Feel Like Giving Away This Subterranean Press ARC of “The Dispatcher”
  26. Miniatures Arrives!
  27. Out for the Weekend
  28. The Big Idea: Corie Weaver
  29. Four Weeks In
  30. The Big Idea: Ruth Vincent
  31. I Was Going To Write Something Thoughtful and Meaningful Today But Then I Thought, Screw It, I’ll Just Put Up a Picture of a Cat, Really, It’s All The Same, Isn’t It
  32. New Books and ARCs, 12/2/16
  33. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2016, Day Five: Charities
  34. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2016, Day Four: Fan Favorites
  35. Hey, Looks Like It’s Time Once Again For Me to Talk About Writing On Politics

November 2016

  1. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2016, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More
  2. Three Weeks In
  3. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2016, Day Two: Non-Traditionally Published Books
  4. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2016, Day One: Traditionally Published Books
  5. Here’s Where the Holidays Begin
  6. New Books and ARCs, 11/25/16
  7. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2016 Starts Monday!
  8. Thanksgiving, 2016
  9. How to Get Signed and Personalized Scalzi Books for the Holidays, 2016
  10. Dig the Cover to the French Edition of The End of All Things
  11. Now, a Scamperbeasts Break!
  12. Two Weeks In
  13. New Books and ARCs, 11/21/16
  14. Print Version of The Dispatcher: Coming in May 2017
  15. Thoughts On My Trump-Era Novels
  16. It Begins
  17. Just Putting This Here Because It’s Blowing My Mind
  18. Checking In, Eight Days On
  19. The Two Day Comment Window Thing
  20. Pragmatic Government in an Age of White Nationalism
  21. On the Road Again
  22. Veteran’s Day
  23. How I’m Doing
  24. The Cinemax Theory of Racism
  25. Early Morning Thoughts on the Day After
  26. Your Quadrennial “I Voted!” Thread
  27. Sunset, 11/7/16
  28. New Books and ARCs, 11/7/16
  29. One More Day
  30. My Electoral Prediction, 2016
  31. View From a Hotel Window, 11/4/16: Frankfort, KY + New LA Times Article (on the Election, as it Happens)
  32. The Cubs, the 108-Year-Long Streak, and Old Man’s War
  33. Thoughts a Week From Election Day
  34. A Year of Scamperbeastery

October 2016

  1. Zombie Scalzi Wishes You Happy Halloween
  2. I Was Going to Write Another Piece About the Election But Then a Wave of Ennui Hit Me, So Please Enjoy These Pictures of My Daughter Instead
  3. Putting These Here For Archival Purposes
  4. New Books and ARCs, 10/28/16
  5. Begun, The Yard Wars Have
  6. The Big Idea: Patrick Sheane Duncan
  7. This Week My Brain Apparently Has No Enthusiasm For Writing Long Whatever Entries, So, Here, Have a Kitten
  8. Re: Blurb Requests For the Remainder of 2016
  9. RIP, Sheri Tepper
  10. The Election and Productivity
  11. If You Were Ever Wondering What Krissy’s “I’m Humoring You” Look Is Like
  12. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 10/21/16
  13. Redshirts Wins the Geffen Award
  14. White Dudes, Trump, and America
  15. Why Clinton is Winning (One Reason, Anyway)
  16. Voting and Churros
  17. Reporting in From Trump Country
  18. The Big Idea: Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe
  19. Further Thoughts on The Collapsing Empire
  20. Email Notice, 10/17/16
  21. Hello From Nerdcon: Stories
  22. View From a Hotel Window, 10/13/16: Minneapolis
  23. The Big Idea: Meg Elison
  24. My Endorsement for President, 2016: Hillary Clinton
  25. The Dispatcher Hits #1, The Front Room is Finished, Hanging Out at NYCC With Adam and Norm
  26. The Big Idea: Amy S. Foster
  27. Trump, the GOP, and the Fall
  28. This Really Happened
  29. My Annual Unsolicited Endorsement of WordPress VIP
  30. View From a Hotel Room, 10/6/16: New York
  31. The Collapsing Empire: Done!
  32. The Big Idea: Daniel Polansky
  33. The Dispatcher: Now Out for Free on Audible + NYCC Signings and Appearances
  34. Homecoming 2016

September 2016

  1. New Books and ARCs, 9/30/16
  2. “Best Series” Hugo Category: A Trial Run in 2017 + My Thoughts On It
  3. Living Room Update
  4. The Big Idea: Fran Wilde
  5. The Big Idea: Kent Davis
  6. Who We Are Online, Who We Are Offline, How They’re Different and How They’re the Same
  7. New Books and ARCs, 9/23/16
  8. The Big Idea: Miriam Libicki
  9. Sunset, 9/22/16
  10. Dispatcher Audiobook Cover Reveal
  11. The State of the Living Room
  12. The Big Idea: J. Lincoln Fenn
  13. New Books and ARCs, 9/20/16
  14. Aloha Hawaii (and Hawaiicon)
  15. Hawaiian Update
  16. 18 Years + Bacon Cat 10 Year Anniversary
  17. Hawaiian Sunrise, 9/12/16
  18. View From a Hotel Balcony, 9/11/16: The Big Island
  19. Vacation Week Has Commenced
  20. New Books and ARCs, 9/9/16
  21. The Big Idea: K.C. Alexander
  22. In Which I Turn Out To Be a Surprisingly Poor Agent of White Genocide
  23. The Big Idea: Tom Crosshill
  24. The Big Idea: Robin Talley
  25. The Scamperbeasts at One: Today You Are a Cat
  26. The Big Idea: Nisi Shawl
  27. Spice Enjoys Her Labor Day
  28. Sunset With Mercury and Duck, 9/3/16
  29. Kristine Blauser Scalzi, 9/3/16
  30. 5 Writing the Other Fails And How To Avoid Them: A Guest Post
  31. The Big Idea: Adam Heine

August 2016

  1. And Now To Close Out August 2016, Please Accept These Pictures of Two Delightful Hummingbirds
  2. Zachary Quinto to Narrate “The Dispatcher,” To Be Released by Audible October 4
  3. First Day of School, 2016
  4. The University of Chicago, Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces
  5. New Books and ARCs, 8/26/16
  6. The Big Idea: Beth Cato
  7. New Books and ARCs, 8/24/16
  8. The Big Idea: Kate Milford
  9. The Rest of MidAmeriCon II
  10. Gum on the Shoe of History, or, Why the Hugos Are Still Not Destroyed
  11. View From a Hotel Window, Kansas City Edition + Look! I’m in Rolling Stone!
  12. New Book and ARCs, 8/17/16
  13. The Big Idea: Bishop O’Connell
  14. The Big Idea: Caroline M. Yoachim
  15. Sunset, 8/14/16
  16. The Big Idea: Brooke Johnson
  17. Midnight Star: Renegade is Out!
  18. Declining My Dragon Award Nomination
  19. Trump, and His Jokes, and You
  20. The Big Idea: Jay Kristoff
  21. The Yellowing of the Scalzi Compound
  22. New Books and ARCs, 8/5/16
  23. The Moon and Mercury, 8/4/16
  24. My MidAmeriCon II Schedule
  25. Twitter Is For Cats, feat. Chuck Wendig and Steven Spohn
  26. Sunset, 8/2/16
  27. The Big Idea: Nick Mamatas
  28. Hey Scalzi, How Did You Vote For The Hugos?

July 2016

  1. Please Enjoy This Cat Picture On a Lazy Sunday
  2. ERMAHGERD IT’S JERBY
  3. New Books and ARCs, 7/29/16
  4. Notes, re: August/September Big Idea Requests
  5. Clinton and the Convention and Where We Go From Here
  6. Hillary Clinton, Considered in Herself
  7. Reminder: Vote for the Hugos
  8. Exiles of Embermark (and Me)
  9. Big News From Tor Books
  10. Quick Political Open Thread 7/26/16
  11. Tech With Value
  12. New Books and ARCs, 7/22/16
  13. A Brief Review of Star Trek Beyond
  14. Trump and the Convention and Where We Go From Here
  15. The Big Idea: Melissa F. Olson
  16. A Note On a Jackass Getting Booted From Twitter
  17. A Short Review of Ghostbusters and A Longer Pummel of Manboys
  18. New Books and ARCs, 7/15/16
  19. Clouds to the South
  20. Please Enjoy This Slow Motion Video of Leaves Waving in a Wind Gust
  21. 10,000
  22. The Big Idea: David D. Levine
  23. Activism, and Whether I Do It
  24. Cat Picture! Plus! Award Nomination!
  25. Dallas
  26. Police and Me and Philando Castile
  27. Announcing Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
  28. Three Things That Arrived Whilst I Was Away at Westercon 69
  29. New Books and ARCs, 7/1/16
  30. View From a Hotel Window, 7/1/16: Portland, OR

June 2016

  1. What is the Great American Novel?
  2. Let’s Talk About July For Just a Second
  3. New Books and ARCs, 6/29/16
  4. The Big Idea: Bob Proehl
  5. A Girl and Her Dog
  6. The Big Idea: Rob Boffard
  7. Sunset, 6/27/16
  8. View From a Hotel Window, 6/25/16
  9. A Few Thoughts Post-Brexit
  10. Samsung S7 Edge First Impressions
  11. The Big Idea: Christopher Husberg
  12. Hey Scalzi, Do You Have an Opinion on Brexit?
  13. The Big Idea: E. Catherine Tobler
  14. Brazilian OMW Swag
  15. The Big Idea: Curtis C. Chen
  16. First Sunset of Summer 2016
  17. Whoops 9
  18. My Next Album
  19. New Books and ARCs, 6/17/16
  20. The Big Idea: Yoon Ha Lee
  21. I Was Too Busy To Update Earlier and Now I’m About to Go On a Date With My Wife, So, Here, Have a Kitten Picture AND a Sunset Picture
  22. The Big Idea: Laura Lam
  23. The Big Idea: Bryon Quertermous
  24. A Kitten Picture for You, 6/13/16
  25. The Big Idea: Adam Rakunas
  26. Thoughts and Prayers
  27. How Blogs Work Today
  28. The Moon Through Leaves, 6/10/16
  29. New Books and ARCs, 6/10/16
  30. The Big Idea: Shannon Page
  31. Clinton and Sanders and the End of the Road
  32. The Big Idea: Na’amen Gobert Tilahun
  33. Black Tide Rising and Mash Up — Out Today!
  34. A Tweet Spree on Amazon Author Rankings and Envy
  35. The Big Idea: Anna Kashina
  36. Self Portrait With Kitten
  37. The Greatest of All Time
  38. The Big Idea: Kelley Grant
  39. Sunset, 6/1/16
  40. The Big Idea: Bob Defendi

May 2016

  1. The Big Idea: Manu Saadia
  2. Heading Home From Madison
  3. New Books and ARCs 5/27/16
  4. View From a Hotel Window, 5/27/16: Madison
  5. The Big Idea: Camille Griep
  6. New Books and ARCs, 5/26/16
  7. Wiscon; Extending Semi-Hiatus into June; Other Things
  8. The Big Idea: Kat Howard
  9. Cover for The Collapsing Empire, My New Book, Out on March 21, 2017
  10. Today’s New Books and ARCs, 5/23/16
  11. Sunset, 5/22/16
  12. New Books and ARCs, 5/20/16
  13. And Now, a Quick Check-In With the Hugos
  14. Last Day of School, 2016
  15. It’s Over, Bernie Sanders Fans. Let it Go.
  16. The Big Idea: Paul Cornell
  17. How I Spent My Afternoon
  18. Qwerkywriter Keyboard First Impressions
  19. The Big Idea: Madeline Ashby
  20. Pictures from the 2016 Nebula Awards Reception and Ceremony
  21. View From a Hotel Window, 5/13/16: Chicago
  22. The Big Idea: Guy Gavriel Kay
  23. Where I’ll Be in Chicago This Weekend
  24. The Big Idea: Ada Palmer
  25. 47
  26. New Books and ARCs, 5/9/16
  27. Pre-Prom Pictures
  28. New Books and ARCs, 5/6/16
  29. New Books and ARCs, 5/5/16
  30. A Baker’s Dozen of Terrible Things I Have Called Ted Cruz
  31. The Big Idea: Katrina Archer
  32. New Books and ARCs, 5/4/16
  33. Five Quick Notes on Indiana
  34. New Books and ARCs, 5/3/16
  35. The Big Idea: Ruth Vincent
  36. Two New Books in 2016 That Have Me In Them. Well, Three. Actually, Five
  37. New Books and ARCS 5/2/16: Special Baen-apalooza Edition
  38. Today is the Day I Figured Out My Wife May Be the Highlander
  39. The Promised Kitten Pic
  40. May 2016 Semi-Hiatus is Now ON

April 2016

  1. View From a Hotel Window, 4/29/16: Southfield, MI
  2. This Picture Was Photoshopped
  3. The May Mostly Hiatus
  4. Four Things About the Hugos, 4/27/16
  5. Dear Cruz, Kasich and Sanders: Guys, It’s Over
  6. Quick 2016 Hugo Finalist Thoughts (With a Link to Even More Hugo Thoughts)
  7. The Big Idea: Marko Kloos
  8. Scammers and Fixed Pots
  9. Puffball, 4/24/16
  10. View From a Hotel Window, 4/22/16: Columbus
  11. Off to Westerville and Columbus
  12. Jesus, 2016, Let Up Already
  13. A New York State of Mind
  14. The Big Idea: Paolo Bacigalupi
  15. Kristine, 4/18/16
  16. The First Bumblebee of Spring
  17. Zeus, 4/15/16
  18. Boycotts Are Supposed to Hurt
  19. A Slow Week In My Brain
  20. The Big Idea: Gillian Murray Kendall
  21. Sunset 4/11/16
  22. A View From A Hotel Window, 4/7/16: Los Angeles
  23. Doing the Travel Thing
  24. The Big Idea: Alethea Kontis
  25. And Now, an Incomplete List of Women Writers Who Inspire Me
  26. What I’m Doing in Los Angeles This Next Weekend
  27. The Tesla 3 (and Why I Probably Wouldn’t Get One)

March 2016

  1. The Big Idea: Myke Cole
  2. My New Writing Gig
  3. The Big Idea: Sam Sykes
  4. Sunset, 3/29/16
  5. My Review of Batman v Superman, and Its Reviews
  6. The Big Idea: Kate Forsyth
  7. Reader Request Week 2016 Wrapup
  8. How to Take Four Pretty Cool Shots of Lightning
  9. Life, Resurrected
  10. Reader Request Week 2016 #10: Small Bits
  11. Two Views of the Same Daughter
  12. Two Views of the Same Tree
  13. Reader Request Week 2016 #9: Short Bits on Writing
  14. New Books and ARCs, 3/25/16
  15. Nikon D750 First Impressions
  16. Reader Request Week 2016 #8: STEM and STEAM
  17. Reader Request Week 2016 #7: Writers and Ego
  18. Reader Request Week 2016 #6: Why I Don’t Drink or Use Drugs
  19. The Big Idea: Jim Ottaviani
  20. More Photos From the New Camera
  21. Reader Request Week 2016 #5: Pronouns
  22. Quick Tuesday Night Recap, 3/23/16
  23. The Big Idea: Alan Smale
  24. First Light on the New Camera
  25. Reader Request Week 2016 #4: Autonomous Cars
  26. Reader Request Week #3: How, and If, I Will Be Remembered
  27. The Big Idea: Susan Jane Bigelow
  28. Reader Request Week 2016 #2: Will Humans Survive?
  29. Reader Request Week 2016 #1: Living Where I Do
  30. The Final Snows of Winter
  31. New Books and ARCs, 3/18/16
  32. Meanwhile, in the Ohio Senate
  33. Notes on Awards and Slates, 3/18/16
  34. Reader Request Week 2016: Get Your Requests In!
  35. The Big Idea: Sonia Orin Lyris
  36. The Voice of the People
  37. Clinton and Sanders and Trump and Kasich and Also a Bit About Cruz and Rubio
  38. The Big Idea: Lavie Tidhar
  39. Hell Yes I’m Voting for Kasich Today
  40. The Big Idea: Adrian Selby
  41. I’m In the Mood For a Huge Chunk of 80s-Flavored Cheese
  42. The Thing About That Photo From the Trump Rally
  43. New Books and ARCs, 3/11/16
  44. Black Tide Rising eARC Now Available
  45. Blue Monday, ’30s Style
  46. The Big Idea: Elizabeth Bonesteel
  47. Michigan and Mississippi and Those Other States Too
  48. Catching Up With New Books and ARCs, 3/8/16
  49. Warning: I’m Behind With Email
  50. Explaining What We Already Knew About Bond Villains (and Bond)
  51. Become a Midnight Star: Renegade Beta Tester!
  52. The Wilicious Burrito
  53. A Political Disclaimer, 2016: I’m (Sometimes) Wrong
  54. The Big Idea: David Lubar
  55. The Big Idea: Mark Tompkins
  56. Five Thoughts on Super Tuesday 2016
  57. The Big Idea: Ryk E. Spoor
  58. Announcing Midnight Star: Renegades!
  59. Dear GOP: We Can’t Save You If You Won’t Save Yourself
  60. The Big Idea: Robert J. Sawyer

February 2016

  1. JoCo Cruise 2016 Photo Set Plus Quick Nerd Boat Recap
  2. The Big Idea: Jason LaPier
  3. Back From the Boat, Plus a Couple of Housekeeping Notes
  4. Whatever on Vacation Until March 1
  5. The Big Idea: Dobromir Harrison
  6. The Big Idea: Victor LaValle
  7. What I Want Out of Twitter
  8. Various and Sundry, 2/16/16
  9. RIP, Bud Webster
  10. The Big Idea: Randy Henderson
  11. Not Dead
  12. A Request re: Jeopardy (Update: Found It!)
  13. View From a Hotel Window, 2/11/16: Dallas, TX
  14. The Big Idea: Lindsay Smith
  15. A Brief Note to Nebula Award Nominators
  16. The Rest of the Night in New Hampshire
  17. The Existential Angst of Jeb Bush Failing to Best Ted Cruz in the New Hampshire Primary, in Twitter Form (Featuring Jim Gilmore)
  18. Team Scalzi
  19. The Big Idea: Tanita S. Davis
  20. The 2016 Audie Award Finalists for Fantasy
  21. Guess Who Completely Lost Track of Time and Forgot to Update His Web Site Today?
  22. Pizza and Particles: An Observation on Writing
  23. New Books and ARCs, 2/5/16
  24. Various and Sundry 2/5/16
  25. The Big Idea: Marshall Ryan Maresca
  26. In Case You Have Not Yet Gotten Your Recommended Daily Allowance of Kittens From the Internet Today
  27. What The Hell, February
  28. The Big Idea: J. Kathleen Cheney
  29. The Worldwide Distribution of Scalzis
  30. The Big Idea: Faith Hunter
  31. In Today’s Edition of Scalzi Buys Art: “Oscillations” by Johnna Y. Klukas
  32. The End of All Things on the 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List

January 2016

  1. The Scamperbeasts Rule
  2. Impostor Syndrome, or Not
  3. New Books and ARCs, 1/29/16
  4. 2016 Hugo Nominations Open
  5. Facebook and Your Friends
  6. The Battle of the Scamperbeasts: An Epic Poem, Translated From the Cat Tongue
  7. The Big Idea: Jennifer Brozek
  8. Tom Louis, 1946 – 2016
  9. The Rental Muscle Car
  10. Big Idea Status Post for February and March
  11. The Big Idea: Charlie Jane Anders
  12. The Scamperbeasts Get Mail
  13. Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
  14. View From a Hotel Window, 1/21/16: Novi, MI
  15. Clinton and Sanders and Me
  16. David Hartwell
  17. In Which the 18-Year Old John Scalzi Tackles “The Great Questions”
  18. Into the World of Travel Once More Plus a Question to Keep You Occupied
  19. Glenn Frey
  20. Early Oscar Predictions, 2016
  21. View From the Hotel Window, 1/14/16: Boston
  22. Oh, and Alan Rickman
  23. Off to Boston
  24. Duuuuuh Brain
  25. In Case You Were Wondering How Close You Can Get to a Sleeping Kitten With a Full-Sized DSL Camera Before She Wakes Up
  26. The Big Idea: Jake Kerr
  27. My Arisia Schedule
  28. David Bowie
  29. Well, Look Who Just Showed Up For Work
  30. The Scamperbeasts on Twitter
  31. I Had Such Ambitions For This Week On Whatever But Instead I Used My Brain To Write 12,000 Words on the New Novel, So, Look, Here Are the Scamperbeasts
  32. I’m One of the Recipients of the 2016 Governors Awards for the Arts in Ohio
  33. How to Manifest a Kitten
  34. Scribble Scribble Scribble
  35. The Big Idea: Eric James Stone
  36. New Books and ARCs, 1/4/16
  37. The 2016 Awards Consideration Post
  38. I Forgot to Update Today, So Here is the Apology Kitten Pic
  39. And Thus Do the Holidays End, As Ever They Do, With the Ritual Decapitation of a Snowman
  40. 2016 Plans, Appearances, Resolutions, Etc
  41. 2016 is Here

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