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December 2021

  1. How I Totaled My Car (PS: I’m Fine)
  2. Looking Back on 2021
  3. Prepping for the New Year
  4. My Top Two 2021 Songs
  5. Whatever Best of 2021 (Athena Version)
  6. Thoughts on Whatever in 2021, and in 2022
  7. Brief Review: Don’t Look Up
  8. (Probably) My Last Portrait of Krissy of 2021
  9. (Probably) My Last Self-Portrait of 2021
  10. Review: The Matrix Resurrections
  11. Whatever Best of 2021
  12. Meanwhile, Over at Instagram, an Unintentional Triptych
  13. 23
  14. New Books and ARCs, 12/22/21
  15. Name Your Cookie
  16. The Dispatcher Optioned for TV; “Kaiju” Excerpt at Tor/Forge Blog
  17. Definitely My Next Author Photo
  18. Hello From Worldcon
  19. View From a Hotel Room 12/16/21: Washington DC
  20. Kirkus Review of “The Kaiju Preservation Society”
  21. A Stained Glass Moment
  22. The Big Idea: Alex Thomson
  23. Pet Break, 12/13/21
  24. RIP, Anne Rice
  25. The Big Idea: Katharine Coldiron
  26. “Kaiju” Starred Review in Publishers Weekly
  27. Rainier, Coming and Going
  28. The Big Idea: Femi Fadugba
  29. Church Acquisition Follow-Up
  30. The Big Idea: Don Handfield and Joshua Malkin
  31. A Quick Jolt of Holiday Cheer For You
  32. The Big Idea: M.A. Carrick
  33. And Now, the Latest Scalzi Acquisition
  34. View From a Hotel Window, 12/4/21: Seattle
  35. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2021, Day Five: Charities
  36. The Big Idea: Janice L. Newman
  37. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2021, Day Four: Fan Favorites!
  38. The Big Idea: Shannon Fay
  39. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2021, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More

November 2021

  1. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2021, Day Two: Non-Traditionally Published Books
  2. The Big Idea: Ian Douglas
  3. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2021, Day One: Traditionally Published Books
  4. The Big Idea: Jeremy Szal
  5. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2021 Starts Monday!
  6. Happy Consume All the Calories Day
  7. Things I Am Thankful For, 2021 Edition
  8. Someone May Have Updated Some Of His Photo Software Today
  9. The Big Idea: Patricia A. Jackson
  10. I Was Going to Write a Piece on Politics Today But It Turned Out the Metaphor I Was Going to Use Needs Some Workshopping, So In the Meantime Here’s Charlie With Some Autumn Leaves
  11. Mermaids Monthly: Back For Year Two
  12. My Appearance Schedule Through The Kaiju Preservation Society’s Release Date
  13. Boosted!
  14. Back From Cleveland
  15. Cake for Breakfast? Cake for Breakfast!
  16. Archiving an Answer From Reddit
  17. The Big Idea: Patrick Swenson
  18. Sunset, 11/16/21 + Quick Status Check
  19. The Big Idea: Cat Rambo
  20. Just FYI
  21. The Big Idea: Jane Yolen
  22. RIP, Petra Mayer
  23. BOOOOO SNOW BOOOOO
  24. Clackety Clackety Clack
  25. The Big Idea: Erica L. Satifka
  26. Your Transgressing Dog Photo of the Day
  27. The Big Idea: Dan Hanks
  28. Charlie and Smudge Are Friends, 11/11/21
  29. The Big Idea: Tobias S. Buckell
  30. First Impressions: Twitter Blue
  31. The Big Idea: Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman
  32. Reminder: Two Weeks (More or Less) Left to Vote For the Hugos This Year
  33. A Genuine Existential Quandary, If You Are a Dog
  34. The Big Idea: Marshall Ryan Maresca
  35. A Pro Tip Regarding Frost on Grass
  36. The Big Idea: Jennie Goloboy
  37. One Week With the Pixel 6 Pro
  38. The Big Idea: Charlie N. Holmberg
  39. Your Reminder to Exercise Your Franchise, If Applicable
  40. The Big Idea: Rebecca Kim Wells
  41. Deathloop Follow-Up, or, Hey, I Finally Got This Game To Work On My PC
  42. The Big Idea: Wendy N. Wagner

October 2021

  1. What, Is It Halloween Already
  2. A Small Gallery of Pixel 6 Pro Photos, With Dogs and Plants
  3. The Big Idea: Drew Brockington
  4. Pixel 6 Pro: (Very) First Impressions
  5. Dune: A Review
  6. The Big Idea: Emmie Mears
  7. The Big Idea: Christopher Hinz
  8. First Frost
  9. The Big Idea: Ryan O’Nan
  10. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles
  11. Signed SF/F Books to Support Charity
  12. Yeah, Okay, So, Maybe I Bought Another Guitar, So What
  13. The Big Idea: Patti Callahan
  14. Happy (Approximate) Birthday, Charlie
  15. The Big Idea: Cassandra Khaw
  16. How To Get Signed & Personalized Books From Me For the Holidays, 2021, or, The Supply Chain Is Messed Up Edition
  17. A Saturday Hibiscus
  18. The Winner of the “Kaiju” Contest Is…
  19. The Big Idea: Dave Ring
  20. Win the ARC of The Kaiju Preservation Society (and a Reminder That You Can Pre-Order a Signed, Personalized Copy From Subterranean Press)
  21. Redshirts: The Tor Essentials Edition is Out Today
  22. The Big Idea: Marjorie B. Kellogg
  23. Yet Again, My Annual Unsolicited Endorsement of WordPress
  24. Out For the Weekend
  25. The Big Idea: A.M. Muffaz
  26. Someone Got His Flu Shot Today
  27. Three Flowery Sentiments, 10/7/21
  28. The Big Idea: Joshua S. Levy
  29. The Great Facebook Collapse of October 4 2021 and What It Can Teach Us
  30. The Big Idea: Caitlin Starling
  31. The End of a Tree
  32. Get Signed, Personalized Copies of “Kaiju” Through Subterranean Press
  33. The Big Idea: Stephanie Burgis
  34. View From a Hotel Window, 10/2/21
  35. “Whaddya Mean September Is Over?!?!?”

September 2021

  1. The Big Idea: Steven Leonard
  2. “Kaiju” Gets a Starred Review in Booklist
  3. A Girl and Her Stick
  4. The Big Idea: Charles Dellheim
  5. Today’s Musical Interlude: “Ode to Somewhere”
  6. My College Essay
  7. Questionable Foodstuff Review: Cheetos Bag Of Bones Snacks
  8. New Book and ARCs, 9/24/21
  9. The Big Idea: J.D. Moyer
  10. Today’s Big Event on Horatio Harris Creek Road
  11. The Big Idea: Jason Sanford
  12. The Last of the Crabapple Blossoms
  13. Climate Change as a Personal Mission
  14. The Big Idea: TJ Klune
  15. Summer’s End
  16. The Big Idea: Lavie Tidhar
  17. Rainy Days and Mondays Always Get Smudge Down
  18. Deathloop for PC is Awesome and I Absolutely Cannot Recommend It
  19. New Books and ARCs, 9/17/21
  20. The Big Idea: Lee Matthew Goldberg
  21. Hibiscus, 9/16/21
  22. The Big Idea: Monica Byrne
  23. Signs of the Season
  24. The Big Idea: Amanda Jayatissa
  25. The Unrecalled Governor
  26. The Big Idea: Calder Szewczak
  27. 23 Years
  28. Thoughts on the “Debarkle”
  29. 30 Years of Being a Professional Writer
  30. 20 Years of 9/11
  31. New Books and ARCs, 9/10/21
  32. An Actual Party of Death, Now
  33. Gas vs. Electric Road Trip
  34. The Big Idea: Cassandra Khaw
  35. Charlie in the Back Yard, 9/8/21
  36. The Big Idea: Kelly Jennings
  37. And Now, My Dragon Con 2021 Report
  38. The Big Idea: David Liss
  39. Labor Day Check-In
  40. I Love a Parade
  41. View From a Hotel Window, 9/2/21: Atlanta
  42. The Big Idea: Matthew FitzSimmons
  43. Somehow the Pets Always Know
  44. The Big Idea: Jaye Viner
  45. Never Fear, Smudge Is Here to Help You Bid Adieu to August

August 2021

  1. The Big Idea: Elayne Audrey Becker
  2. Whoops 11
  3. Today’s Deep Thought of the Day for Today
  4. These Sticky Buns Were Fire
  5. Today’s Distraction From the Internet
  6. “Automated Customer Service” Gets an Emmy (and LD+R Gets Four)
  7. The Big Idea: Cassie Hart
  8. Charlie Watts, RIP
  9. The Big Idea: R.W.W. Greene
  10. Administrative Notes and an Editorial Comment, 8/23/21
  11. The Truth About My Time At Miami University And Why This Is My Last Post (For Now)
  12. The Dragon Curse
  13. Someone Wants In
  14. Sunset, 8/20/21
  15. New Books and ARCs, 8/20/21
  16. Trying Out A New Recipe: Claire Saffitz’s Malted “Forever” Brownies
  17. The Big Idea: Adrian Goldsworthy
  18. The Interdependency Series on NPR’s List of Favorite SF/F of the Last Decade
  19. The Big Idea: Richard Kadrey
  20. On Being Ever-So-Slightly Ahead of the Curve, Infrastructure-Wise
  21. It’s A Wonderful Day For Chai
  22. The Big Idea: E. J. Wenstrom
  23. The Secret to Portraiture
  24. A Compromise Post
  25. Popular With the Pets
  26. August No.1: A Musical Composition
  27. Sakuraco August Box Review
  28. New Books and ARCs, 8/13/21
  29. Founding Daddy
  30. 2021 Dragon Awards Finalists
  31. The Big Idea: Josh Rountree
  32. Trying Out A New Recipe: Joshua Weissman’s Sticky Buns
  33. The Big Idea: Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
  34. Damn It, I Was Going to Write a Lengthy Piece Today But Then I Got Distracted By Pointless Crap and Forgot What I Was Going to Write About, So Here’s a Cat Picture Instead
  35. The Big Idea: Elijah Menchaca
  36. How Bad Should We Feel When the Willfully Unvaccinated Die?
  37. Today in Things I Was Definitely Not Expecting to Happen
  38. Meet the New Coke Zero, (Pretty Much the) Same as the Old Coke Zero
  39. Here Comes the Weekend
  40. The Big Idea: Jadie Jang
  41. My New Phone and How I Got It
  42. The Big Idea: Matthew Hughes
  43. One Year On Whatever
  44. The Apple Bulletin
  45. The Big Idea: Nicole Willson
  46. And Now, Because Why Not, One Minute Fifty One Seconds of Time Lapsed Clouds That Were Visible Out My Office Window Today
  47. The Down Time
  48. Dispatcher 3: Finished!

July 2021

  1. New Books and ARCs, 7/30/21
  2. The Temp Toilet
  3. The Big Idea: Brad Parks
  4. Perfect Form
  5. A Twitter Thread on Shopping Agreements
  6. The Big Idea: Greg Van Eekhout
  7. The Problem With Pingbacks
  8. “I Ate a Bug and It Was Delicious”
  9. Stuck Out At Sea
  10. The Big Idea: Nicholas Bowling
  11. Darke County and COVID Contradictions
  12. The Big Idea: Catherynne M. Valente
  13. Seeing Things In A New Way
  14. The Big Idea: Dan Rice
  15. A Comment On Anxiety
  16. Sunset, 7/17/21
  17. Goth Flora, 7/17/21
  18. New Books and ARCs, 7/15/21
  19. More Thoughts On Loki: Episodes 4-6
  20. The Big Idea: Nicole Kornher-Stace
  21. Release Date Change For The Kaiju Preservation Society
  22. I Have Never Been Prouder of a Tweet
  23. Sakuraco July Box Review
  24. The Big Idea: Ada Hoffman
  25. Is This The End of Our Hero, Coke Zero, Part III: The Final Zeronation
  26. The Big Idea: Ryan Van Loan
  27. A Moment to Breathe
  28. Today’s Intense Moral Outrage
  29. When is Cookie Dough not Cookie Dough
  30. Zeus, Pensive
  31. The Big Idea: Jennifer Estep
  32. Is Reality Really Real?
  33. The Big Idea: Jason Fischer
  34. Behind the Scenes of “Automated Customer Service”
  35. The Big Idea: Sarah Henning
  36. A Look “Inside”
  37. The Big Idea: Robert V. S. Redick
  38. Richard Donner, RIP
  39. Happy Independence Day
  40. Cloud Road, 7/2/21
  41. Mary Robinette Kowal Announced as Chair of Discon III
  42. Prepare Yourself For July’s Wanton Hibiscustry
  43. The Big Idea: E. J. Mellow

June 2021

  1. A Look At Loki: Episodes 1-3
  2. Charlie: A Bad Good Dog or a Good Bad Dog
  3. TokyoTreat July Box Review
  4. Here, Have a Cover Reveal
  5. Weekend Update
  6. New Books and ARCs, 6/25/21
  7. Here’s Something I Haven’t Used in a While
  8. Hey Kids! There’s a New Journey Song!
  9. Back to DragonCon!
  10. In Conversation with Jenny Lawson at Lithub
  11. Tonight’s Sunset, 6/22/21
  12. The Big Idea: Jen Karner
  13. A Reminder to Worldcon Members
  14. I Am Truly A Great Daughter
  15. More Learning the DAW
  16. Juneteenth Thoughts
  17. New Books and ARCs, 6/18/21
  18. Krissy’s Anniversary Gift
  19. Off the Musical Deep End, Part III: Programageddeon
  20. 26 Years!
  21. The Big Idea: India Holton
  22. Sakuraco June Box Review
  23. The Big Idea: Christopher Swiedler
  24. In Which a Major Corporation Flirts With My Wife
  25. Cicadone
  26. Off the Musical Deep End, Part II: The Unpackening
  27. “Getting Back To Normalcy”
  28. The Big Idea: Brandie June
  29. The Cicada Tree
  30. I Went On A Donut Tour In Chicago And It Was As Awesome As It Sounds
  31. The Big Idea: Stuart Jaffe
  32. Ohio’s Maxfield Parrish Skies
  33. The Big Idea: Benjamin Rosenbaum
  34. Cicadas Have Arrived, Part 2: The Loitering
  35. A Quick Look At My Trip To Chicago
  36. The Big Idea: Stephen Aryan
  37. The Turtle in Our Hedge
  38. The Big Idea: Craig Alanson
  39. Phone Thoughts in 2021
  40. Cicadas Have Arrived
  41. Learning the DAW, or, What I Did With My Saturday
  42. Off the Musical Deep End
  43. The Big Idea: Nancy Jane Moore
  44. The New New Toy
  45. The Big Idea: Lavie Tidhar
  46. A Girl and Her Log
  47. The Big Idea: Veronica G. Henry
  48. A Making Of Featurette For Love Death + Robots Volume 2
  49. State of the Scalzi, June 1, 2021
  50. Seriously What the Hell is Going On In This Video
  51. The Big Idea: A. C. Wise

May 2021

  1. Sakuraco May Box Review
  2. Memorial Day 2021
  3. Here, My Deer
  4. I Was Gonna Write Something About Politics But Then Remembered It Was a Saturday, and Also I Kinda Didn’t Want To, So Here’s a Rain-Dappled Bearded Iris Instead
  5. Fancy Toast
  6. New Books and ARCs, 5/28/21
  7. The Big Idea: Ryk E. Spoor
  8. A Friday Morning Musical Interlude
  9. The Big Idea: Christian Klaver
  10. A Review And A Celebration
  11. The Unmasking Proceeds Apace
  12. The Big Idea: David Ebenbach
  13. Smudge and Charlie, 5/25/21
  14. The Big Idea: Sammy H. K. Smith
  15. Meanwhile, Cows
  16. A Baked Good Of Mine Actually Turned Out!
  17. From the Archives: My Review of Cabin Boy
  18. Sorting Through Ten Years Of Stuff
  19. Excuse Me, Have You Been Judged By a Cat Today?
  20. A Week Without Tonsils
  21. The Big Idea: Alex Zohar
  22. Christy Gaitten, RIP
  23. Charlie Photo: Deployed
  24. LD+R a Netflix Top Ten Show
  25. Thoughts On the Imminent Unmasking
  26. Follow-up to the Week’s Excitement
  27. Hey, Do You Like Leaks?
  28. And Now, The Moment You’ve Been Waiting For
  29. The Big Idea: L. R. Braden
  30. Love Death + Robots Volume 2 Now Out
  31. Dogs in the Yard, 5/13/21
  32. I’m Totally Not Feeling it Today, So Instead of Incisive, Thoughtful Commentary I’m Just Going to Show You Something That’s Making Me Irrationally Angry
  33. Scared Of Surgery
  34. The Big Idea: Jeff Noon
  35. Ten Years of Fuzzy Nation
  36. 52
  37. Mother’s Day 2021
  38. Chocolate Chip Failures
  39. New Music from Matthew Ryan
  40. The Big Idea: Griffin Barber
  41. A Little Bit of Sugar
  42. The Big Idea: James L. Cambias
  43. Not-So Spoiler-Free Thoughts On Invincible
  44. The Big Idea: John Gwynne
  45. Happy Just To Be a Finalist: A Twitter Thread
  46. The Big Idea: A. J. Smith
  47. Moderna’d Part II
  48. The Last Emperox a Locus Award Finalist
  49. Friday Night Funkin’ Review

April 2021

  1. New Books and ARCs, 4/30/21
  2. The Big Idea: Jonathan Glancey
  3. Biden at 100 Days: Boring as a Secret Weapon
  4. The Big Idea: Corry L. Lee
  5. Corona Leaves A Bad Aftertaste
  6. The Big Idea: PJ Manney
  7. The Big Idea: Bruce Sterling
  8. A Charlie Moment
  9. About Being “Great”: A Twitter Thread
  10. Revisiting Conan Gray
  11. The Big Idea: Katherine Cowley
  12. A Quick Musical Interlude
  13. The Big Idea: Elly Bangs
  14. The Big Idea: Cavan Scott
  15. Dogs in Snow, 4/21/21
  16. Sakuraco April Box Review
  17. The Big Idea: J.S. Dewes
  18. What’s With All The Reviews?
  19. Love Death + Robots Volume 2 Trailer is (Officially) Up
  20. The Big Idea: James Fell
  21. Happy Birthday, Krissy
  22. Krissy at the Golden Hour
  23. Today My Brain Didn’t, Like, Even Bother to Show Up, I Barely Have a Single Thought In My Head Right Now, So, Here, Enjoy This Sunset Picture From a Couple of Days Ago
  24. Would You Like Some Charlie Photos?
  25. JoCo Cruise 2021 Virtual Panel: “Quarantine Creativity: How We Got Through 2020 & What We Learned From It”
  26. 2021 Hugo Award Finalist Follow-up
  27. Greatness Adjacent
  28. 2021 Hugo Award Finalists
  29. The Big Idea: Caroline Hardaker
  30. Meanwhile, Back at the Scalzi Compound
  31. A Trip to Stillwater
  32. The Beast Arrives in Bradford
  33. A Sweet Review For You This Friday
  34. The Big Idea: Oliver K. Langmead
  35. A Winter Wonder Worldcon
  36. The Big Idea: Leah Cypess
  37. Second Shot Down
  38. A Look At the FabFitFun Spring 2021 Box
  39. The Big Idea: Nancy Werlin
  40. Spoiler-Free Thoughts On Invincible So Far
  41. Reader Request Week 2021 #10: Short Bits
  42. Reader Request Week 2021 #9: Short Writery Bits
  43. New Books and ARCs, 4/2/21
  44. Reader Request Week 2021 #8: Local Favorites
  45. I Got Moderna’d
  46. Reader Request Week 2021 #7: Does Money Satisfy?
  47. The Big Idea: Thomas K. Carpenter

March 2021

  1. Read Request Week 2021 #6: Krissy and Dogs
  2. Reader Request Week 2021 #5: American Fascism
  3. The Big Idea: Michael Muntisov
  4. Reader Request Week 2021 #4: Living on a Boat
  5. Product Review: Craize Corn Crackers
  6. Reader Request Week 2021 #3: Teaching “The Classics”
  7. The Big Idea: Yaroslav Barsukov
  8. Reader Request Week 2021 #2: Book Numbers
  9. Reader Request Week 2021 #1: Creative Kids in a Computer Age
  10. The Big Idea: Dorothy Winsor
  11. Cats and Dogs, Living Together: An Update
  12. I’m Over Being Overweight
  13. Who’s A Good Girl?
  14. Reader Request Week 2021: Get Your Questions In!
  15. Charlie Photos, 3/24/21
  16. Do You Want to Hear About This Japanese Snack Box I Got?
  17. And Now, the Title of the Novel I Just Completed, Plus a Very Little Amount of Detail About the Book
  18. The Big Idea: C. L. Clark
  19. My First Tik Tok!
  20. Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Review
  21. Charlie Update, 3/21/21
  22. Meet Charlie
  23. Hey, Guess Who Just Finished Writing a Novel?
  24. New Books and ARCs, 3/19/21
  25. The Big Idea: Christina Consolino
  26. The Big Idea: Matt Ruff
  27. Final Thoughts On WandaVision
  28. I Got Shot, Part One
  29. Slate Lactose Free Chocolate Milk: Taste Test and Thoughts
  30. My 2021 Oscar Prediction (or Not) Post
  31. Happy Pi Day 2021
  32. Time To Rant About Time Travel
  33. Thoughts on a Plague Year
  34. The Big Idea: Gabriela Houston
  35. Bit of a Bust Bagels
  36. Today In Life Choices That Are Either Questionable or Awesome or Both
  37. The Big Idea: Jess Montgomery
  38. Hey, Look, It’s Athena
  39. The Big Idea: Marie Vibbert
  40. Smoothie Time!
  41. Two Tweet Threads About Copyright
  42. An Early March 2021 Status Check on Scalzi
  43. I Was Going To Title This “Mlem Monday” But Then I Remembered It’s Friday
  44. Jane Yolen on 400 Books
  45. A Short Wolf For Your Delight
  46. The Big Idea: Jillian Boehme
  47. The Big Idea: Kali Wallace
  48. Making It Up As I Go Along
  49. The Big Idea: E. J. Beaton
  50. Krissy and Smudge Have a Moment
  51. The Big Idea: Emily R. King

February 2021

  1. Return of the River
  2. Krissy, Femme Fatale
  3. Watching Despite Myself
  4. New Books and ARCs, 2/26/21
  5. Super Smash Bros Ultimate: Choose Your Character!
  6. The (LGBT) Numbers Are In
  7. Adventures In Banoffee Making!
  8. The Canonical Sequel FAQ
  9. The Big Idea: Juliette Wade
  10. Showcasing My Collection: Stickers, Volume One
  11. A Vague But Official Pronouncement About a Thing
  12. A Month of Biden
  13. Winter Sunrise, 2/21/21
  14. Sugar Contemplates Winter
  15. I’m Donating Blood Today So Here’s A Post About Blood and Organ Donation!
  16. The Big Idea: Rucker Moses & Theo Gangi
  17. The Only Acceptable Reason For it Currently Being -4 Degrees Outside
  18. Another Installment of My Thoughts On “WandaVision”
  19. The Big Idea: Michael Johnston
  20. The Tale of the Epic Journey of a Cat Who Wished to Venture Into the Great Snowy Unknown, As Told In a Photograph, This February 16, 2021
  21. Enter Snowmageddon
  22. Curateur: A Life Well Curated
  23. General Unstructured Thoughts On “Being Cancelled”
  24. Today’s Clouds, 2/12/21
  25. New Books and ARCs 2/12/21
  26. Starts With “Z” and Rhymes With “Roomba”
  27. The Big Idea: Mindy Klasky
  28. 20 Years In Ohio
  29. Learn More About Me: My Favorite Animal
  30. The Big Idea: Stephen Deas
  31. I Will Also Offer You Music This Monday
  32. Monday Music!
  33. A Sweet Treat For You This Fine Friday
  34. A Bucolic Moment
  35. A Very Special Cookbook Post
  36. And Now, One Minute of Snow Falling in Slow Motion
  37. The Crimson Smudge
  38. Here, Have A French Fry Ranking
  39. And Now, a Very Self-Referential QR Code
  40. The Big Idea: Sylvain Neuvel
  41. Spoiler-Free Thoughts on “Wolfwalkers”
  42. Oh, Hello, February

January 2021

  1. The Difference a Day Makes
  2. Small Business Saturday: Kannchy
  3. Spice Welcomes You to January’s Last Caturday
  4. New Books and ARCs, 1/29/21
  5. Five Things, 1/28/21
  6. The Big Idea: Mark Matthews
  7. I Was Gonna Complain About Something Today, But This Video of an Acapella Group Doing Windows Sounds is Much Nicer
  8. The Big Idea: Jeff Wheeler
  9. Views On “WandaVision”
  10. The Big Idea: Katharyn Blair
  11. Five Things, 1/25/21
  12. How I’m Spending My Sunday
  13. Showcasing My Collection: Enamel Pins, Volume Three
  14. Two Days In
  15. I Forgot to Update Earlier, So Again, Here’s a Picture of a Cat
  16. The Big Idea: Alexander Weinstein
  17. Housekeeping 1/20/21
  18. A Brief Installment Of Plant Based Food Reviews
  19. So Begins the New Year and Era
  20. The Unlamented Man
  21. President Boring
  22. The Big Idea: M. A. Carrick
  23. The Four Movies That Have Made Me Ugly Cry, Part 4: The Lovely Bones
  24. Update: Still Got Nothin’, Here’s a Picture of Krissy Instead
  25. I’m Thinking a Lot of Things But Not Able to Formulate Them Coherently, Maybe Later, In the Meantime Here’s a Cat
  26. Mundane Sacred Objects
  27. A Special Music Recommendation: K/DA
  28. New Books and ARCs, 1/15/21
  29. The Big Idea: Tim Susman
  30. Why “Soul” Is Good For Your Soul
  31. A Fall of His Own Making
  32. Krissy and Smudge
  33. Novel Writing Status, January 2021
  34. The Big Idea: Tim Pratt
  35. Wearing Masks, Then and Now
  36. The Repeachment is Coming
  37. And Yes, I Checked the Actual Day Count
  38. Huh
  39. Thoughts on Coups and Sedition, 1/8/21
  40. But What If We Didn’t
  41. The Worst President
  42. Showcasing My Collection: Old Cookbooks, Volume One
  43. The Big Idea: Dan Koboldt
  44. WW84: WTF?
  45. 2021 Awards Consideration Post
  46. Welcome to 2021

2020 569

December 2020

  1. The End of 2020*
  2. My Top 5 Posts of 2020
  3. New Books and ARCs, 12/30/20
  4. So, Scalzi, What Are Your 2021 Goals?
  5. News Books and ARCs, 12/29/20
  6. The Big Idea: Michael Mammay
  7. The 2020 Experience: A Personal Reflection
  8. And Now, My Favorite Photo That I Took in 2020
  9. Technical Test Follow-up
  10. Doing a Technical Test
  11. Whatever 2020: Top Posts and General Notes
  12. Come Gather ‘Round, Children, as Uncle Egor Tells You Stories of Famine in the Old Country
  13. Whatever Best of 2020
  14. 22
  15. Technical Note on the Site’s Mobile Theme
  16. “Another Christmas (Until I Am There With You)” Out Now
  17. Jupiter, Saturn, Clouds
  18. For No Reason Whatsoever, Here’s One of My Favorite Songs From a Couple of Years Ago
  19. The Last Sunset of Autumn, 2020
  20. Not a Single One of You Correctly Guessed the Holiday Song I Was Thinking of for the “Murder By Other Means” ARC Contest
  21. My Thoughts On Red Dead Redemption 2
  22. Once Again I Have Neglected to Write Anything For the Site, So Here’s a Picture of Zeus Instead
  23. I’m Giving Away an ARC of The Dispatcher: Murder By Other Means
  24. I Regret To Inform You All That I Miss High School
  25. Systems Check: Ooooooouuuf
  26. The Big Idea: Sam Hawke
  27. Crap, I Totally Forgot to Update Today, So Here’s a Picture of Smudge
  28. Biden Wins Again, Again, Again, Again, Again
  29. The Big Idea: Leonard Richardson
  30. Today In “My Life Is Fun Sometimes”
  31. The Four Movies That Have Made Me Ugly Cry, Part 3: Crazy Rich Asians
  32. A Very Dragon Christmas
  33. Whoops, I Forgot to Update Today, Here’s a Song
  34. Aced My Test
  35. The Big Idea: Alma Alexander
  36. Blue Christmas, “Bang It Out On the Uke” Edition
  37. Thoughts On Hades (So Far)
  38. Systems Check: Nnnnnnugggghfff
  39. Compare & Contrast: 25 Years
  40. The Big Idea: Rachel Mans McKenny
  41. 2020 Signed Books Update
  42. The Four Movies That Have Made Me Ugly Cry, Part 2: Coco
  43. Additional Technical Notes, 12/6/20
  44. The Littlest Hibiscus Flower
  45. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2020, Day Five: Charities
  46. My Experience With Getting a COVID Test
  47. The Big Idea: Matthew Castleman
  48. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2020, Day Four: Fan Favorites!
  49. A Tale of Billboards and Burritos
  50. Not Necessarily a Miracle on 34th Street
  51. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2020, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More
  52. A Small Technical Note
  53. Guest Post: Why You Should Run For (Local) Office, by Adrienne Martini
  54. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2020, Day Two: Non-Traditionally Published Books

November 2020

  1. First Snow of the Season
  2. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2020, Day One: Traditionally Published Books
  3. The Four Movies That Have Made Me Ugly Cry, Part One: The Fault in Our Stars
  4. And Now For No Good Reason Other Than I Felt Like It, Here’s Me Singing an Elvis Tune
  5. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2020 Starts Monday!
  6. A Short Note on Thanksgiving Day
  7. Playing With My 50mm Lens
  8. Meg Frank on the Mermaids Monthly Kickstarter
  9. If You’ve Ever Wondered About My Sense of Humor, Here’s a Good Example
  10. Five Things, 11/24/20
  11. The Big Idea: Charlie N. Holmberg
  12. Today in “It’s About Damn Time” + a Cat
  13. The Big Idea: B.J. Graf
  14. Here’s Some Music To Listen To This Fine Sunday
  15. Five Things, 11/21/20
  16. New Books and ARCs, 11/20/20
  17. World-Building: How Science Sculpts Science Fiction
  18. Take a Deep Breath: Trump is Not Going To Cheat His Way Back Into the Presidency
  19. Showcasing My Collection: Enamel Pins, Volume Two
  20. The Big Idea: JD DeLuzio
  21. I Was Going to Write a Political Piece Today But Then Was Struck By Ennui, So Here’s a Relatively Obscure Men At Work Song Instead
  22. The Big Idea: James Van Pelt
  23. This Vacation Blows
  24. The Big Idea: Essa Hansen
  25. The Dispatcher: Murder By Other Means Limited Edition Print/EBook coming in April; Pre-Order Now!
  26. The Big Idea: Nibedita Sen
  27. The End of Casual Hugging(?)
  28. Small Business Saturday: Pour Vallery Art
  29. New Books and ARCs, 11/13/20
  30. Biden 306 + Ohio Election Thoughts
  31. The Big Idea: Kimberly Unger
  32. Adventures In Baking: Chai Cookies Edition
  33. The Sore Loser, and the Malign Loser
  34. Make Like a Tree
  35. The Big Idea: Ginger Smith
  36. My Adventures in Dark Souls III (So Far)
  37. How To Get Signed & Personalized Books From Me For the Holidays, 2020, PLUS a Very Special Short Term Deal
  38. The Big Idea: Emily C. Skaftun
  39. An Unexpected Side Effect
  40. Pixel 5 Follow-Up
  41. Because I Don’t Want Everything On Here Today To Be About Politics
  42. And Now, Some More General Thoughts on the 2020 Election
  43. The Sound of a Landslide Not Happening
  44. In Case You Rely On Me To Tell You These Things
  45. Small Administrative Note Regarding Comments
  46. Playlist for the Day
  47. Twenty Years an Author
  48. How I Got Over Phone Anxiety
  49. Have a Puppy
  50. Understand That You Can Never Understand
  51. It Is a Good Day to Vote
  52. The Big Idea: Erica L. Satifka
  53. Election Eve Sunset
  54. And Now, In News Unrelated to the Election
  55. Election Eve Info
  56. 2020 Halloween Dance Mix

October 2020

  1. The Pixel 5: Why I Got One + First Impressions
  2. Learn More About Me: My Favorite Song
  3. Dish Network and the New Google Chromecast
  4. Foliage Break
  5. Webtoon Recommendation Time: Freaking Romance
  6. The Big Idea: Marshall Ryan Maresca
  7. How To Make a Halloween-Themed Dance Party Playlist — The Scalzi Way!
  8. I Have a Confession
  9. Meanwhile, Check Out This Leaf With Legs
  10. A Foliage Moment For You
  11. New Books and ARCs, 10/23/20
  12. October Is Almost Over So Make Some Seasonal Treats While You Still Can!
  13. Foliage Photo Album + Quick Thoughts on Photoshop 2021
  14. Political (Dis)Engagement
  15. The Big Idea: Elizabeth Bear
  16. Sunrise, Fog and Trees
  17. The Big Idea: Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson
  18. Fake Young Scalzis
  19. How Jack Skellington Is the World’s Most Lovable Problematic Skeleton
  20. The Big Idea: James S. Murray
  21. A Bit of Disclosure, Re: Sneak Previews and Special Events
  22. And Now, Some General Thoughts About the Election
  23. October in Ohio
  24. Reporting in From Trump Country, 2020
  25. Small Business Saturday: Tarabusi Creek Cosmetics
  26. Something To Listen To This Fine Friday
  27. The Big Idea: Carrie Vaughn
  28. Today In “I’m Occasionally Reminded I Live the Life of a Hermit, Even Without COVID As an Excuse”
  29. The Big Idea: Amanda Bridgeman
  30. Once Again, My Annual Unsolicited Appreciation Post, Regarding WordPress
  31. This Just In: I Shaved
  32. The Big Idea: C.L. Polk
  33. Mars Through the Trees, 10/13/20
  34. How “The Good Place” Kinda Messed Me Up
  35. The Big Idea: Christen Carter
  36. I Totally Forgot to Update the Site Today, So Here, Enjoy This Obscure Yet Tuneful Song
  37. The Last Tomato of 2020
  38. Smudge Meets Buckley
  39. New Books and ARCs, 10/9/20
  40. I Feel You, Julie Nolke
  41. Saved(?) By the Bell
  42. Let’s Get Cooking
  43. Quick Krissy Surgery Update
  44. The Big Idea: Sean Patrick Hazlett
  45. RIP, Eddie Van Halen
  46. The Scalzi Endorsement: Joe Biden
  47. Family Early Voting Time!
  48. Nostalgia is a Luxury
  49. A Reminder to Ohioans: Last Day to Register to Vote
  50. The Fitbit Sense: A Review
  51. Six Views of Scalzi, 10/3/20
  52. New Books and ARCs, 10/2/20
  53. The Big Idea: Jane Yolen
  54. The Plague and the President
  55. A (Possibly Relevant) Blast From the Past
  56. The Big Idea: Tom Doyle

September 2020

  1. The Big Idea: Rebecca Coffindaffer
  2. A White Supremacist, For White Supremacists, Counting on White Supremacists
  3. Answer Time!
  4. The Big Idea: Lauren Shippen
  5. Sunset, 9/28/20
  6. What We Knew, What We Know, and Why It Matters
  7. Mayhaw Jelly and Novel Crunch Time: Two Unrelated Things in a Single Post
  8. And Now, Something Relaxing
  9. Get Gud, Scrub
  10. In Which I Offer An Opinion So Contentious It May Rock the Very Fabric of Our Society
  11. The Art VS the Artist
  12. Hey, I’m Doing an Audible Live Event Tomorrow (9/24/20)
  13. Autumn’s First Sunset
  14. The State of Masking in Trump Country: An Anecdotal Report
  15. The Big Idea: R. B. Lemberg
  16. Ask Me a Question!
  17. Internet Speed Update
  18. The Big Idea: Karen Osborne
  19. Clash of the Geeks, Ten Years On
  20. Smudge’s Grand Plan for the Weekend
  21. New Books and ARCs, 9/18/20
  22. Pass the “Ammunition”
  23. Put a Ring On It
  24. The Big Idea: Hannah Abigail Clarke
  25. The Reagan Test and Donald Trump
  26. The Big Idea: J.R.H. Lawless
  27. So I Was Going to Post This Picture of Spice Stretching Last Night, But I Guess I Got Distracted By, You Know, STUFF, So Here It Is This Morning, Hello
  28. The Big Idea: Mark Oshiro
  29. Woman’s Weekend at Camp Willson
  30. The Big Idea: Paul Michael Anderson
  31. “Murder By Other Means” #1 on Audible’s “Top Audible Plus Listens” List
  32. 22 Years
  33. It’s Been a While Since I’ve Posted a Picture of Krissy, So, Hey, Look, It’s Krissy
  34. Dude, That’s My Jam: A Review of Four Fancy Jams
  35. The Big Idea: Elaine Mongeon and Glen Zipper
  36. Here’s Me and Zachary Quinto Interviewing Each Other About “Murder By Other Means”
  37. Murder By Other Means is Out on Audible + The World Premiere of “The Dispatcher” by Ted Leo
  38. The Big Idea: Dan Hanks
  39. Trying New Places: Schmidt’s Sausage Haus und Restaurant
  40. The Big Idea: Caitlin Starling
  41. Armchair Quarterbacking the Dragon Awards
  42. The Big Idea: Chris Panatier
  43. A Genuine Labor Day Miracle
  44. The Last Emperox Wins the Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
  45. Behold, a Poem From My Youth
  46. This Morning’s Moon, 9/5/20
  47. Here Is Quite Possibly the Coolest AMV You Will Ever See
  48. The Big Idea: Simon Stephenson
  49. A Quick Note on the Malleting of Comments
  50. Your Unabashed Support of Trump Will Embarrass Your Bloodline for Generations
  51. My 2020 (Virtual) Dragon Con Schedule
  52. The Big Idea: Tim Akers
  53. Occasional Reminder: Don’t Send Me Story and/or Collaboration Ideas
  54. The Big Idea: Alice James

August 2020

  1. My Brain Is Empty So Here’s Some Flower Pictures
  2. Hey, Remember How I Pester You All About Voting? Guess What! I’m Doing It Again!
  3. My Top Five Love Death + Robots Episodes
  4. Movie Review: Bill & Ted Face the Music
  5. New Books and ARCs, 8/28/20
  6. The Public Domain Will Not Make You Popular
  7. Sunset Clouds, 8/27/20
  8. Showcasing My Collection: Enamel Pins, Volume One
  9. The Big Idea: Liz Williams
  10. This Hurricane’s For Real, People
  11. Sunset, 8/25/20
  12. I Wrote a Deeply Not Good Piece Today, So Rather Than Inflicting It On You, Here’s a Binging With Babish About a Burrito
  13. Athena Recommends: Fall Guys
  14. The Dispatcher Sequel “Murder By Other Means” Available September 10 on Audible Plus
  15. I Was Writing a Piece About Six Months of Quarantine and Annoyed Myself as I Wrote It, So Here’s Zoe Keating Instead
  16. Thoughts on Pixel Buds 2: The Buddening
  17. On the Occasion of Ray Bradbury’s 100th Birthday: “Meeting the Wizard”
  18. And Now, the Whatever Official Product Solicitation Policy
  19. I Miss Travelling, So Here’s My Attempt at Travel Writing
  20. A Small Cosmetic Note
  21. Okay, Sure, It’s My Fault Science Fiction is the Way It Is Right Now
  22. The Big Idea: Derek Künsken
  23. Spread Your Anger Like Soft Butter Over Warm Bread
  24. The Big Idea: Thomas Levenson
  25. Today’s Tech Acquisition: Onyx Boox Nova 2
  26. The Big Idea: Chris Mooney
  27. New Books and ARCs, 8/17/20
  28. Of Its Time
  29. Delta Phi Corona
  30. I, Too, Have Music to Share Today
  31. Music Recommendation Time: Conan Gray
  32. Fuck You, I’m Voting
  33. The Big Idea: David Mack
  34. Periods. What Are They Good For.
  35. The Last Emperox a Finalist for the 2020 Dragon Awards
  36. The Big Idea: Julie E. Czerneda
  37. Kamala Harris, Vice-Presidential Candidate
  38. Updates to Guidelines for Publicity and The Big Idea
  39. The Big Idea: Shveta Thakrar
  40. Webtoon Recommendation Time: Let’s Play!
  41. College Football Doomed
  42. In Which I Both Decry, and Defend, the Concept of Dad Rock
  43. Small Business Saturday: Ocean’s Originals
  44. Oh, Christ, Not the Science Fiction Canon Again
  45. A Four is a Two is a Six
  46. Krissy, Masked
  47. Graveling Day
  48. The Big Idea: Linden A. Lewis
  49. The Athena Mallet
  50. Attack of the $30 Rental: Why Disney’s Mulan Strategy Just Might Work
  51. Housekeeping Notes for the New Regime
  52. Don’t Call It a Comeback
  53. I Got a Permanent Crown Today and I’m Still a Bit Fuzzed Up, So Here’s a Picture of Jupiter I Took Last Night
  54. Sunset, 8/2/20

July 2020

  1. The New Chair Arrives
  2. New Books and ARCs, 7/31/2020
  3. Why I Like Photography
  4. Five Things: July 30, 2020
  5. The Big Idea: Lif Strand
  6. Five Things: July 29, 2020
  7. The Big Idea: Richard Cox
  8. This Web Site is Free
  9. The Big Idea: Ferrett Steinmetz
  10. Site Changes Coming in August
  11. The Big Idea: Cindy Lynn Speer
  12. I Present to You the First Cherry Tomatoes of the Season
  13. The Virus Claims Yet Another Social Event
  14. Nostalgia Vu
  15. This Just In: Krissy is Coming to End You
  16. Help, Help, I Can’t Be Published!
  17. JoCoCruise Postponed
  18. Chair Life
  19. Blog Changes Update Update
  20. Five Things: July 22, 2020
  21. Blog Changes Update
  22. The Big Idea: Ryan Van Loan
  23. Heads Up: Changes and Updates Coming
  24. Mary Robinette Kowal and I Talk About Books and Science Fiction and Stuff
  25. The Big Idea: Michael R. Underwood
  26. I Don’t Know What You Were Doing With Your Day, But Personally I Was Watching a Whole Bunch of Videos About Submarines
  27. Five Things: July 19, 2020
  28. Saturday Hibiscus Photos
  29. New Books and ARCs, 7/17/20
  30. The Big Idea: Madeline Ashby
  31. Five Things: July 16, 2020
  32. The Big Idea: Kenneth Schneyer
  33. Twitter is Being Hacked and I Can’t Post to My Verified Account at the Moment Because I’m Being Told It Looks Like Suspicious Activity, I Bet I’m Not the Only One
  34. I Had Substantial Dental Work Done Today and the Anesthetic is Wearing Off, Making Actual Thinking Difficult, So, Here is a Picture of Smudge Seriously Considering Trying to Abscond With an Entire Steak
  35. The Big Idea: Tiffani Angus
  36. Grant Imahara, RIP
  37. Five Things: July 13, 2020
  38. The Big Idea: Steven H. Silver
  39. How I’m Spending My Saturday
  40. A Note About Borderlands Books and Alan Beatts
  41. Five Things: July 9, 2020
  42. The Big Idea: Catherine Asaro
  43. Back to College? Not Yet
  44. Goodreads’ 100 Most Popular Sci-Fi Books List: I’ve Got Some Stuff On It
  45. The Big Idea: Sarah Henning
  46. Five Things: July 7, 2020
  47. Dragon Con Going Virtual in 2020
  48. Back Into Quarantine
  49. On July Fourth, What to Get a Nation That Has Everything
  50. Smudge Wishes You a Very Fine Independence Day Weekend
  51. A Note on the American Flag in 2020
  52. This Tweet Did Not Age Well
  53. The Big Idea: C.T. Rwizi
  54. Nikon D780 Followup Report
  55. Five Things: July 1, 2020
  56. The Big Idea: Alma Alexander

June 2020

  1. Five Things: 6/30/20
  2. Check In, 6/30/20
  3. The Big Idea: Dorothy A. Winsor
  4. The Big Idea: Max Booth III
  5. Taking the Rest of June Off
  6. No Five Things Today
  7. When Friends Fuck Up, and So Do I
  8. The Big Idea: Paris Wynters
  9. Five Things: June 24, 2020
  10. The Big Idea: Katherine Addison
  11. Five Things: June 23, 2020
  12. Five Things: June 22, 2020
  13. The Hugo Window
  14. Happy Smudgeversary!
  15. Five Things: June 19, 2020
  16. An Addition to the Site Disclaimer
  17. Five Things: June 18, 2020
  18. And Onward to the Next 25
  19. Five Things: June 17, 2020
  20. 25 Years
  21. Five Things: June 16, 2020
  22. The Big Idea: Doug Engstrom
  23. Five Things: June 15, 2020
  24. The Big Idea: Ryk Spoor
  25. To Talk, Or Not
  26. Five Things: June 12, 2020
  27. Generation X and Trans Lives
  28. Five Things: June 11, 2020
  29. The Big Idea: John P. Murphy
  30. Five Things: June 10, 2020
  31. The Big Idea: A.J. Fitzwater
  32. Five Things: June 9, 2020
  33. The Big Idea: C. S. E. Cooney, Jessica P. Wick, Amanda J. McGee, Mike Allen
  34. Five Things: June 8, 2020
  35. The Big Idea: Tim Major
  36. Thinking More on #PublishingPaidMe
  37. Spam Filtering Note
  38. New Books and ARCs 6/5/20
  39. Five Things: June 5, 2020
  40. DreamHaven Books & Comics Fundraiser
  41. The Big Idea: Kester Grant
  42. Five Things: June 4, 2020
  43. The Big Idea: Jeremy Szal
  44. Five Things: June 3, 2020
  45. The Big Idea: Robert J. Sawyer
  46. Uncle Hugo’s Fundraiser + Editorial Note
  47. Five Things: June 2, 2020
  48. The Big Idea: Drew Murray
  49. Five Things: June 1, 2020

May 2020

  1. 11 Week Quarantine Check In
  2. The Nebula Weekend Dance Party Set List
  3. Thinking About June
  4. Zeus Officially Pronounces The Week Done and Over With
  5. A Dream Possibly Indicative of My Mental State at the Moment
  6. The Big Idea: Margo Orlando Littell
  7. Petals and Raindrops
  8. I Have No Opinions of Note to Express Today, So Here, Have a Cat
  9. The Big Idea: Swati Teerdhala
  10. Memorial Day Flowers, 2020
  11. Sunset, 5/24/20
  12. About That Deal, Five Years On
  13. New Books and ARCs, 5/22/20
  14. The Big Idea: Nancy Kress
  15. Ohio’s Opening Up But I’m (Still) Staying In
  16. Today in “The Hell With It, I’m Gonna Treat Myself” News
  17. The Big Idea: Jennifer Brody
  18. Reader Request Week 2020 #10: Short Bits
  19. Reader Request Week 2020 #9: Writing Short Bits
  20. New Books and ARCs, 5/14/20
  21. A Reminder, Re: Famous People I Know
  22. Reader Request Week 2020 #8: What It Means to Be Dead
  23. Reader Request Week 2020 #7: Cover Songs
  24. Krissy and Me, 5/14/20
  25. I’m This Week’s “By The Book” Feature in the New York Times
  26. Reader Request Week 2020 #6: Pulling Punches in Criticism
  27. The Big Idea: Tone Milazzo
  28. Reader Request Week 2020 #5: Me and Sports
  29. The Big Idea: Dan Moren
  30. Reader Request Week 2020 #4: What It’s Like To Be a Cis Straight Man
  31. Reader Request Week 2020 #3: Becoming More Ourselves
  32. Reader Request Week 2020 #2: The Hellish Swill I Consume
  33. Reader Request Week 2020 #1: Being Politically Persuaded
  34. Krissy, Mother’s Day 2020
  35. 51
  36. A Goal Entirely Hit, Addendum
  37. The Big Idea: Ilze Hugo
  38. Reader Request Week 2020: Get Your Questions In!
  39. Spring Photos, May 7, 2020
  40. The Big Idea: Laura Lam
  41. Sunset, 5/6/20
  42. Meet the New Camera
  43. The Big Idea: Jon McGoran
  44. Thoughts on Cameras in the Age of Excellent Cell Phone Photos
  45. Week Seven Quarantine Report
  46. May Flowers, Plus a New Song From Matthew Ryan

April 2020

  1. The Big Idea: Adrian J. Walker
  2. Webb School Days, Vol. 1: A Playlist
  3. And Now, The Most Terrifying Self Portrait I’ve Done This Week
  4. The Big Idea: A.J. Hartley
  5. The Big Idea: S.L. Huang
  6. Quarantine, Six Weeks In
  7. Zeus, Majestic
  8. My Online Tour Setup
  9. Additional Thoughts on Emperox’s First Week
  10. The Last Emperox a NY Times and USA Today Best Seller
  11. The Last Emperox Spoiler-Filled Discussion Post (WARNING: Spoilers!)
  12. A 30-Day Song Challenge in One Day
  13. Week Five of Quarantine and Ugh, I Have Nothing Useful to Say About It, So Here’s a Picture of a Puppy Instead
  14. My Online Event at the Commonwealth Club, 4/17/20
  15. Krissy at 50
  16. Me and NPR’s Scott Simon
  17. The Sneeze
  18. Checking In On TLE Sales (Kind Of)
  19. The Last Emperox is Out!
  20. Sunset, April 13, 2020
  21. A Request, Re: The Last Emperox
  22. Heartbreak is Not a Joke, or, the Tragedy of Kristoff in Frozen 2: A Guest Post by Athena Scalzi
  23. Oh, Hey, I Was on NPR’s Weekend Edition This Morning
  24. New Books and ARCs, 4/10/20
  25. The Big Idea: Danielle Trussoni
  26. Darke County Quarantine
  27. The Big Idea: A.J. Hartley
  28. Yesterday’s Sunset Today
  29. The Big Idea: Chandra K. Clarke
  30. The Big Idea: Corry L. Lee
  31. My Quarantine Field Trip
  32. State of the Scalzi, Three Weeks In
  33. Yes, But What Does JOHN SCALZI Think of This Moment?
  34. Return of the Flies
  35. New Books and ARCs, 4/3/20
  36. The Dance of Spring
  37. Adam Schlesinger, RIP
  38. The Big Idea: Rysa Walker
  39. The Collapsing Empire Free, The Consuming Fire $2.99, The Human Division 99p
  40. The Strategic Reserve

March 2020

  1. Gah! Cat!
  2. The Two Week Quarantine Report
  3. The Last Best Time
  4. New Books and ARCs, 3/27/20
  5. Distance and Patience and This Moment of Time
  6. Try to Get a Message to Her: (Another) LP-Length Playlist
  7. The Big Idea: Robert Mitchell Evans
  8. RIP, WIlliam Dufris
  9. Nothing But Blue Sky
  10. The Big Idea: Ilana C. Myer
  11. CoNZealand Goes Virtual
  12. News Books and ARCs, 3/24/20
  13. The Big Idea: Christopher Swiedler
  14. Advice to Myself (and Others) About The Great Pause
  15. JoCo Cruise Concert Photos 2020
  16. New Books and ARCs, 3/20/20
  17. After the Pandemic
  18. The Big Idea: Eeleen Lee
  19. Till the Heart Caves In: An LP-length Mixtape Playlist
  20. The Big Idea: S.A. Jones
  21. Great Scott
  22. The Big Idea: TJ Klune
  23. A Bunch of COVID-Related Thoughts
  24. Important News About The Last Emperox Tour
  25. The Big Idea: Ann VanderMeer
  26. My First Associated Press Photo Credit
  27. Life at Sea, Thursday Edition
  28. Hello From a Boat Next to an Island in the Caribbean
  29. The Big Idea: Myke Cole
  30. The Big Idea: Premee Mohamed
  31. On the Boat
  32. The Big Idea: Chris Kluwe
  33. The Upgrade Value
  34. The Big Idea: K.B. Wagers
  35. The Big Idea: Katie M. Flynn
  36. Super Tuesday Thoughts
  37. The Big Idea: J.T. Nicholas
  38. The Cat in the Window
  39. The Big Idea: Jeff Wheeler

February 2020

  1. New Books and ARCs, 2/28/20
  2. View From a Hotel Window 2/27/20: Chicago
  3. The Return of the Prodigal Laptop
  4. Spice Shelf
  5. Back to Reality
  6. New Books and ARCs, 2/21/20
  7. The Big Idea: J.R.H. Lawless
  8. Still in LA
  9. The Big Idea: Michael R. Johnston
  10. Meanwhile, California
  11. The Big Idea: K.S. Villoso
  12. Tour Dates! Tour Dates! Tour Dates!
  13. The First Rule of Nap Club is Never Talk About Nap Club
  14. New Books and ARCs 2/14/20
  15. The Big Idea: Una McCormack
  16. And Now For Valentine’s Day, This Perfect Cover of “Perfect”
  17. McClatchy in Bankruptcy
  18. This is My “Not Angry, Just Disappointed” Face
  19. The Big Idea: Kelly Braffet
  20. New Book FAQ
  21. The Big Idea: R.W.W. Greene
  22. Meanwhile, In Range of Motion News
  23. The Big Idea: Valentine Wheeler
  24. Today’s Quote That I Actually Texted Someone Which I Am Now Providing You Without Context
  25. The Big Idea: Jim Ottaviani
  26. People Doing Terrible Things to Books, But (Possibly) Not Being Terrible Themselves
  27. Smudge Had a Rough Night
  28. The Big Idea: Juliette Wade
  29. Late Night Texts at the Scalzi Compound

January 2020

  1. New Books and ARCs, 1/31/20
  2. Krissy in Her Happy Place
  3. Permanent Snackery
  4. A Brief Overview of My Current Political Thoughts
  5. If You Go Carrying Pictures of Chairman Mao
  6. New Books and ARCs, 1/24/20
  7. Off to Chicago; Here’s a Cat
  8. The Big Idea: Charlie N. Holmberg
  9. My Tools and Programs, 2020
  10. Zeus Contemplates the Meaning of Existence, January 2020
  11. New Books and ARCs 1/17/20
  12. The Big Idea: Simon Jimenez
  13. The Big Idea: Parker Peevyhouse
  14. The Last Emperox Gets a Starred Review in Publishers Weekly
  15. The Big Idea: Rod Duncan
  16. Hey, Guess Who Will Be Going to Dragon Con This Year?
  17. The Big Idea: Kameron Hurley
  18. When I Die and People Write About Me
  19. First Pass Oscar Predictions, 2020
  20. Get Signed/Personalized Copies of The Last Emperox From Subterranean Press
  21. Dispatcher 2: Done!
  22. First Photos of Athena for 2020
  23. Smudge Wants to Know Just What, Exactly, It Is You Think You Are Doing
  24. Why, Yes, In Fact, Old Man’s War Could Make a Very Fine Movie
  25. RIP, Neil Peart
  26. New Books and ARCs, 1/10/20
  27. The Big Idea: Jess Nevins
  28. Mike Resnick, RIP
  29. Scamperbeasts 2020: More and Better Naps
  30. The Big Idea: Niki Smith
  31. Smudge Brings His Nap Game Into 2020
  32. What I Am Doing With My Bachelor Weekend
  33. A Cat Picture to Take You Into the First Weekend of 2020
  34. The 2020 Awards Consideration Post
  35. Old Man’s War: 15 Years!
  36. My Personal Project for 2020: Time to Register to Vote

2019 374

December 2019

  1. Miscellaneous Photos, 2019
  2. (Non-Writing) Things I’d Like to Do in 2020
  3. 2019, Professionally Speaking
  4. The 10s in Review: Krissy, in Photos
  5. New Books and ARCs, 12/27/19
  6. The 10s in Review: Athena, in Photos
  7. The 10s in Review: Whatever Best of 2010 – 2019
  8. Thoughts On a Year of Exercise
  9. Merry Christmas, Everyone
  10. Whatever Best of 2019
  11. 21, Part Two
  12. 21
  13. Review: The Rise of Skywalker
  14. DRDF: It’s a New Reality; or, Dorm Room Rock, Circa 1987
  15. New Books and ARCs, 12/20/19
  16. I Can’t Promise I Will Never Be Problematic: A Twitter Thread
  17. Impeachment Thoughts
  18. The Big Idea: Matthew Hughes
  19. View From a Hotel Window, 12/16/19: NYC
  20. The 10s in Review: A Musical Playlist
  21. Behold My Jedi-Like Powers of Persuasion
  22. Spice Gets Into the Season
  23. And Now, An Update on My Drumming
  24. In Which Krissy’s Picture is Stolen for a Facebook Advertisement
  25. An Accidental Family Triptych
  26. The 10s in Review: My Career
  27. New Books and ARCs, 12/6/19
  28. The Big Idea: Charles Soule
  29. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2019, Day Five: Charities
  30. My Krampusnacht Gift
  31. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2019, Day Four: Fan Favorites!
  32. Early Morning Sky, 12/5/19 + Further Pixel 4 Thoughts
  33. Sunset 12/4/19
  34. The Case of the Felonious Bread
  35. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2019, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More
  36. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2019, Day Two: Non-Traditionally Published Books
  37. Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2019, Day One: Traditionally Published Books
  38. Thinking About the Future of Social Media
  39. The 10s In Review: An Occasional Series

November 2019

  1. A Very Scalzi Christmas is Out!
  2. New Books and ARCs, 11/29/19
  3. Whatever Holiday Shopping Guide 2019 Starts Monday!
  4. Please Enjoy This, the Greatest of All Thanksgiving Songs
  5. Zeus and Smudge Welcome You to Thanksgivingtime
  6. Very Very Early Pixel 4 Impressions
  7. A Very Scalzi Christmas Down the Last 100 Copies of the Signed Limited Hardcover
  8. Trying the Astrophotograpy Mode on my Pixel Phone
  9. Reader Request Week 2019 #10: Short Bits
  10. Reader Request Week 2019 #9: Writing Short Bits
  11. New Books and ARCs, 11/22/19
  12. RIP Gahan Wilson
  13. Reader Request Week 2019 #8: 13-Year-Old Me
  14. The Big Idea: Colin MacIver
  15. Reader Request Week 2019 #7: How My Wife Can Stand Me
  16. Reader Request Week 2019 #6: Being Entertained as an Artist
  17. Reader Request Week 2019 #5: Civility
  18. Reader Request Week 2019 #4: The Things You Outgrow
  19. Reader Request Week 2019 #3: Blogging With Extreme Confidence
  20. Reader Request Week 2019 #2: The War Between the Generations
  21. Reader Request Week 2019 #1: Strange Experiences
  22. Krissy, As of Yesterday
  23. How to Have Time For a Life
  24. New Books and ARCs, 11/15/19
  25. How to Get Signed and Personalized Books From Me For the Holidays, 2019
  26. Photos From New Orleans
  27. Reader Request Week 2019: Get Your Questions In!
  28. Back Home
  29. Time For an Occasional Reminder re: How to Pay For My Books
  30. New Books and ARCs, 11/8/19
  31. View From a Hotel Window, 11/7/19: Knoxville
  32. On the Road, Again
  33. Election Day 2019 Thoughts
  34. The Big Idea: Cynthia Hand
  35. So, Scalzi, Now That You’re Done With the Book Are You Gonna Write About Politics More?
  36. Bwwuuuuhhhh
  37. What Authorial Agitation Looks Like, Scalzi Edition
  38. Terminator: Dark Fate Review
  39. And Now, A New Short Story: The Origin of the Flow
  40. New Books and ARCs, 1/11/19
  41. Thoughts on the Completion of The Last Emperox

October 2019

  1. The Last Emperox — Done!
  2. My In-House Editor Prepares Me For the Final Push
  3. An Update on the State of Things
  4. Look, Here’s Me at This Year’s National Book Festival
  5. German Expressionist Moon
  6. New Books and ARCs, 10/24/19
  7. Mostly Hiding Out Again
  8. A Brief Thread on Marvel Films
  9. The Scalzi Compound in Watercolor
  10. New Books and ARCs, 10/18/19
  11. A Piece of Art I Just Purchased, Featuring, Uh, Me
  12. It’s Already Past Five and My Brain is the Consistency of Mush, So Please Accept This Picture of Two Tuxedo Cats Who May Possibly Be Bored
  13. A Brief Glimpse Into the Inexpressible Glamor of My Life
  14. It’s Time For My Annual Non-Solicited Endorsement of WordPress Hosting
  15. Thoughts on Gemini Man, and its High Frame Rate
  16. The Scalzis Try Australian Snacks
  17. Today in My Fame is a Strange and Sort of Wonderful Fame
  18. New Books and ARCs, 10/10/19
  19. The Moon in the Trees, 10/9/19
  20. What I Brought Home From Australia
  21. Home Again
  22. We Have Always Lived in the Airport Lounge
  23. Flowers From Floriade
  24. I Am A Serious Adult Don’t You Know
  25. View From a Hotel Balcony, 10/3/19: Canberra
  26. Greetings From Transit

September 2019

  1. The Thing I Splurge On, Travel-Wise
  2. Sunset, 9/27/19
  3. New Books and ARCs, 9/27/19
  4. And Now, To Celebrate a Haircut, We Present Two Sides of John Scalzi
  5. Well, It’s Been a Day, Hasn’t It
  6. The Big Idea: Annalee Newitz
  7. Tools, Not Rules: A Twitter Thread
  8. How I Spent My Week Away From the Internet
  9. Away For a Week
  10. New Book and ARCs, 9/13/19
  11. 21 Years
  12. Declaring Hot Take Bankruptcy, Probably Through September
  13. The Big Idea: Sean Carroll
  14. The Big Idea: Alexandra Rowland
  15. Trade Reviews for A Very Scalzi Christmas Are In
  16. New Books and ARCs, 9/6/19
  17. The Big Idea: Steven S. Drachman
  18. The Gunn Center Makes a Change, and Further Thoughts on the Reassessment of John W. Campbell
  19. The Internet Sends Me Flowers
  20. The Big Idea: Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe
  21. Final Notes re: the Campbell/Astounding Award Name Change
  22. The Big Idea: David Koepp
  23. Labor Day Spiderweb
  24. The View From Abe’s Place, 9/1/19

August 2019

  1. New Books and ARCs, 8/30/19
  2. View From a Hotel Window, 8/30/19: Washington DC
  3. Behold My Drinks Fridge
  4. And Now, a Sentence From the Current Work in Progress
  5. Some News About the Campbell Award for Best New Writer
  6. The Big Idea: Michael Mammay
  7. An Evening With Iron Maiden
  8. New Books and ARCs, 8/23/19
  9. The Color of the Sky on My World
  10. The Big Idea: Susan Forest
  11. My 2019 Worldcon Experience
  12. Jeannette Ng, John W. Campbell, and What Should Be Said By Whom and When
  13. A Brief Note on Mary Robinette Kowal, On the Day After Her Hugo Best Novel Win
  14. The Moon and the Samuel Beckett Bridge, 8/16/19
  15. The Big Idea: Sophia McDougall
  16. Lion and Unicorn and Gull, 8/15/19
  17. The Big Idea: Reese Hogan
  18. Supplicants Entering the Hellmouth, 8/14/19
  19. The Big Idea: Keren Landsmann
  20. Checking in From Dublin, 8/13/19
  21. The Big Idea: Christopher Brown
  22. View From a Hotel Balcony, 8/11/19: Dublin, Ireland
  23. Heading Out
  24. New Books and ARCs, 8/9/19
  25. Sunset 8/8/19
  26. The Big Idea: Matt Mikalatos
  27. A Father- Daughter Photo Interlude
  28. The Big Idea: Dee Garretson
  29. I’ve Got a Lot of Writing to Do Today, So I Offer You This Flower in Lieu of a Lengthy Post
  30. Dayton, August 4, 2019
  31. Oh, Look, Another Silly Kvetch About Me
  32. New Books and ARCs, 8/2/19
  33. The Big Idea: Gretchen McCulloch

July 2019

  1. The Big Idea: Derryl Murphy and William Shunn
  2. Sunset Clouds, 7/30/19
  3. The Big Idea: Christian McKay Heidicker
  4. We Interrupt This Evening’s Program to Bring You Cows
  5. Last Night’s Sunset
  6. New Books and ARCs, 7/26/19
  7. My Dublin 2019 Schedule
  8. A Couple of Bits on Hugo Award Proposals and Attempted Wikipedia Deletions
  9. My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
  10. The Big Idea: Jeffrey A. Carver
  11. Taking Pictures of the Moon
  12. The Big Idea: Heather Webber
  13. Greetings From Aviles
  14. View From a Hotel Window, 7/16/19: Aviles, Spain
  15. The Big Idea: Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
  16. Off to Spain
  17. New Books and ARCs, 7/12/19
  18. They’re Not Middle Class, They’re Well-Off, and That Should Worry You
  19. The Big Idea: Sean Grigsby
  20. I Totally Forgot to Update Earlier Today, So Here, Have a Picture of This Nice Flower
  21. A Goal Entirely Hit
  22. The Big Idea: Kali Wallace
  23. Smudge Watches Over You This Monday Morning
  24. Endgames, Tinkerbell and Happily Ever After
  25. The “Christmas in July” Winning Number Is:
  26. A Telling Insight Into My Soul
  27. The Big Idea: Marko Kloos
  28. 4th of July Skies
  29. Sunset With Cat 7/3/19
  30. Have “Christmas” in July!
  31. The Big Idea: Jim Ottaviani
  32. The Not Cool Reincarnation
  33. Some Quick July 1 Notes

June 2019

  1. Zeus, 6/30/19
  2. Hey Scalzi, Who Would You Vote For as the Democratic Candidate If You Had To Vote Right Now?
  3. It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like A Very Scalzi Christmas
  4. On Being Denounced, Again (Again)
  5. The Final Ride of the Not Cool Minivan, 2003 – 2019
  6. View From a Hotel Window: Hollywood, 6/24/19
  7. The New Laptop, 2019 Edition
  8. Krissy and Me, June, 2019
  9. New Books and ARCS, 6/21/19
  10. View From a Hotel Window, 6/20/19: Washington, DC
  11. On the Move (Again)
  12. 24 Years
  13. Taking a Walk for Refugees
  14. New Books and ARCs, 6/14/19
  15. Sunset, 6/13/19
  16. Men, Women, House Cleaning
  17. The Big Idea: David Walton
  18. Today’s Collection of Flower Photos That Are Also Secretly Covers to Goth Albums
  19. Today in “Things I’m Doing That I’ve Never Done Before”
  20. The Big Idea: Richard Kadrey
  21. Love Death + Robots Renewed for Season Two
  22. Announcing A Very Scalzi Christmas, From Subterranean Press
  23. The Scalzi Theory of Strawberries
  24. Two Somewhat Contrasting Views of Athena
  25. New Books and ARCs, 6/7/19
  26. Spice and Smudge, 6/6/19
  27. Hey, Wanna See the Cover for The Last Emperox?
  28. A Thought About Writing About Your Marriage Online
  29. View From a Hotel Window, 6/3/19: Denver

May 2019

  1. New Books and ARCs, 5/31/19
  2. The Big Idea: Anna Kashina
  3. In Which I Learn That I Live In Me
  4. E-Mail Issues Today
  5. Agent to the Stars, Fuzzy Nation and The Android’s Dream: Now Out in Trade Paperback
  6. Good Morning, Moon
  7. Smudge the Ninja Claims Another Victim
  8. Oh, Hey, I Had an Impossible Burger Finally
  9. The View From Harris Creek
  10. Marketers Hate This One Weird Trick, Discovered By a Dad, To Keep Your Gmail Inbox Uncluttered!
  11. The Big Idea: Bryan Camp
  12. New Books and ARCs, 5/22/19
  13. I Had an Overnight Flight and Then Slept Until 1pm and My Brain is Mush, So Here’s Smudge, Posing Dramatically
  14. The Big Idea: Maurice Broaddus
  15. Sunset, With Wife and Cat
  16. Tim Conway Gone
  17. The Big Idea: W.M. Akers
  18. Krissy and Athena, Mother’s Day 2019
  19. Smudge is Here to Announce the Results of the Birthday Pledge Drive
  20. 50
  21. My Birthday Challenge: Donate to Wipe Out Medical Debt, Get a Brand New Story
  22. The Big Idea: Wendy Nikel
  23. Spice, Mid-Yawn
  24. The Big Idea: Seanan McGuire
  25. Work-Related Semi-Hiatus Through the End of May
  26. A Goal Mostly Hit
  27. The Big Idea: Rudy Rucker
  28. A View Through the Backyard Maple
  29. The Big Idea: Lewis Shiner
  30. Nerds! On a Boat!
  31. Review: Avengers: Endgame
  32. Happy Birthday(ish), Smudge
  33. New Books and ARCs, 5/3/19
  34. New Books and ARCs, 5/1/19

April 2019

  1. This Week’s Interesting Personal Achievement
  2. The Big Idea: Clark Thomas Carlton
  3. The Last of the April Blossoms
  4. Hello From Budapest
  5. View From a Hotel Window, 4/26/19: Budapest!
  6. The Big Idea: David Quantick
  7. Meanwhile in London
  8. The Big Idea: Meg Elison
  9. View From a Hotel Window, 4/23/19: London
  10. New Books and ARCs, 4/19/19
  11. Happy Birthday, Kristine
  12. View From a Hotel Window, 4/18/19: Heathrow
  13. The Big Idea: Lara Elena Donnelly
  14. Sunset, 4/16/19
  15. The Big Idea: Ashok K. Banker
  16. View From a Hotel Window, 4/12/19: Los Angeles
  17. The Big Idea: Michael Moreci
  18. The Springing of Spring, 2019
  19. How Not to Congratulate Someone
  20. Top of the Heap, For a Bit
  21. Sign of the Times
  22. Sunset, 4/6/19
  23. Smudge Welcomes You to the Weekend
  24. The Big Idea: Caitlin Starling
  25. The 2019 Hugo Award Finalists
  26. ON STAGE AND FULL OF RAGE or at Least Doing a Reasonable Facsimile Thereof

March 2019

  1. In a Last-Minute Casting Change, the Role of “Cat Who Lies in the Middle of a Stair, Causing the Humans to Carefully Route Around It” Will Be Portrayed By Smudge
  2. New Books and ARCs 3/29/19
  3. Look, It’s the First Moth of the Season
  4. Checking In On That Diet and Exercise Thing
  5. Zeus Wants You to Know That “Head On” is Now Available in Paperback in North America Today
  6. Type Type Type
  7. New Books and ARCs, 3/22/19, With Extra Added Cat
  8. I’m Posting Very Late, So Please Enjoy This Obscure 80s Tune
  9. The Big Idea: Elizabeth Bear
  10. View From a Hotel Window, 3/19/19: New York City
  11. The Big Idea: Kameron Hurley
  12. New Books and ARCs, 3/18/19
  13. Me and “Love, Death and Robots”
  14. Just to Be Clear: The Entire Site is Not Passworded
  15. Passworded Post, 3/17/19
  16. The JoCo Cruise Concerts: The Photos
  17. Love, Death and Robots Now Streaming on Netflix
  18. View From a Cruise Balcony, Oosterdam, 3/9/19
  19. Smudge Blesses the Travel Shirts
  20. The Big Idea: Mallory O’Meara
  21. View From a Hotel Balcony, 3/4/19: New York City
  22. New Books and ARCS, 3/1/19
  23. The Limits of My Knowledge, Professionally (and Otherwise)

February 2019

  1. A Weight Loss Strategy I Can’t In Good Conscience Recommend
  2. Smudge Shot, Plus Internet Update
  3. The Big Idea: Brett Frischmann
  4. Today’s Adventures In Internet Connectivity
  5. New Books and ARCs, 2/22/19
  6. Follow Up Oscar Predictions, 2019
  7. On the Subject of “Hot Takes on Scalzi”
  8. The Big Idea: Howard Andrew Jones
  9. Smudge Protests Being Woken Up
  10. Forgotten Books, Remembered (For Now)
  11. The Big Idea: Tina LeCount Myers
  12. Portrait of Athena, February 2019
  13. I’m Out Until Monday, So, Here, Have Some Flowers
  14. Love Death & Robots Trailer
  15. Today In “I Regret Nothing”
  16. The Big Idea: Charlie N. Holmberg
  17. A Ring Around the Moon, 2/13/19
  18. The Big Idea: Charlie Jane Anders
  19. In Which Smudge Is Convinced That He Will Get Food From the Dinner Table If He’s Cute Enough While He Reaches For It
  20. How You Can Make Anything Sound “Science Fictional”
  21. Sunset, 2/7/19
  22. Day Jobs, Creating, and the End of the World
  23. The Big Idea: Keith R.A. DeCandido
  24. Once Again It’s 8pm and I Have Not Posted Anything Today, So Please Enjoy This Song From a 90s Australian Band
  25. The Big Idea: E.E. Williams
  26. Whoa, It’s Almost 8pm and I Totally Forgot to Update Today, So Here’s a Picture of Smudge
  27. Hey, Let’s Talk Awards For a Bit: A Handy Guide For Dealing With Them
  28. Head On a Finalist for the Audie Award
  29. The Difference a Day Makes
  30. Sunset, 2/1/19
  31. New Books and ARCs, 2/1/19

January 2019

  1. Back at Home
  2. The Big Idea: Kevin J. Anderson
  3. View From a Hotel Window, 1/27/19: West Hollywood
  4. The Big Idea: James Fell
  5. View From a Hotel Window, 1/24/19: Chicago
  6. Today’s Thing I Am Not Okay With
  7. New Books and ARCs, 1/22/19
  8. First Pass Oscar Predictions, 2019
  9. The Big Idea: Django Wexler
  10. “A Model Dog”: A New Short Story, From Me, Over at The Verge
  11. My Contribution to the Pile of Lunar Eclipse Photos From Last Night
  12. View From a Hotel Window, 1/18/19: Detroit
  13. The Big Idea: David Mack
  14. My “Storming the ConFusion” Schedule
  15. Mary Robinette Kowal is Running for SFWA President and I Endorse Her Candidacy
  16. The Big Idea: Brenda W. Clough
  17. I’m Not Saying Sugar Is Judging You, But
  18. The Cat Catches On Quick
  19. Revenue Streams, 2018
  20. Yes, There’s a Point to Bad Reviews in 2019
  21. New Books and ARCs, 1/11/19
  22. That’s Entertainment
  23. And Now, the Dickhead Report
  24. What Regret Looks Like, Cat Division, January 10, 2019
  25. Look What I Got Today
  26. The Big Idea: Jess Montgomery
  27. So This Is Interesting, He Said, With No Self-Interest Whatsoever
  28. Author Incomes: Not Great, Now or Then
  29. Me and My Grandfather
  30. The Athena Veto
  31. The Death of the Author! Maybe!
  32. The Big Idea: James L. Cambias
  33. Wasting My Own Time
  34. The 2019 Awards Consideration Post
  35. In Which the Fundamental Nature of Smudge is Very Precisely Communicated in a Single Picture

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