John Scalzi

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we’re having a Summer Reading #Sale at #Ebooks Direct! Everything in the store is half off, including our Whole Store bundle (and everything else). Come on by and grab a bargain on Young Wizards novels and more! dduane.link/SummerReading

I always carry a couple of Sharpies and a gel pen with me when I do an event, but usually the event will have pens/Sharpies available. They want me to sign books, after all.

Out of curiosity, do you choose/bring your pens/request certain pens? Or does the event just provide them?

InConJunction making sure I have the essentials at my signing table this morning

The bird heard you were talking shit and you didn't think that we would hear it

YES I MAKE MUSIC TOO

Starting with the fifth artist-pack. This is a work in progress, people will get added occasionally. Featuring @scalzi.com (yes he makes music too!) @whytheband.bsky.social @kylatilley.com and more! go.bsky.app/BPg8pMU

Bands, Artists and Musicians on Blue Sky 5bsky.app Join the conversation

Congratulations to @bsky.app, which just passed the six million users mark. That's roughly the size of the population of the great state of Maryland. Please have some cake (crab OR Smith Island, or both!) to celebrate!

Please take a moment to appreciate my Guest of Honor mention on the web site of InConJunction, the convention in Indianapolis where I will be all weekend, maybe come say hello or something inconjunction.org

Update: it was fine. Not great, but good enough and the second best of the series although that's not saying a huge amount.

Just put on the new Beverly Hills Cop movie, pray for me

1. My business associates are generally working M-F so I am tied into their schedules to a greater or lesser extent; 2. Krissy also works M-F so I want to be able to have weekends free for her; 3. When I'm doing conventions, they're usually on the weekend so I try to get work done prior to that.

Curious how which day of the week it is affects someone with your lifestyle/occupation (not being snarky)

I keep forgetting it's not Saturday

Lol. I have absolutely failed the "increasing income --> more conservative" pipeline, although that has as much to do with American conservatism becoming more (overtly) fascist as anything else.

This is how it always happens. You start out liberal and see a little success, then next thing you know… Same thing happened to me in CA when I voted in the republican primary in 2016.

Public records show my party registration is WHAT NOW (I asked for a GOP ballot in the 2016 primary election to vote against Trump, that's the only reason I can think of. I have voted Democratic and non-party ballots since, so I have no idea how this one stuck. I'll have to switch it out.)

As far as I'm concerned anyone telling people not to vote, in this election or any other, is doing for malign purposes, and the only correct response is "Well now I am going to vote EVEN HARDER."

see also the posts floating around pointing out that the author of that piece has voted in the last few elections according to voter records

Sorry, folks, this year "no vote" is a vote for fascism, don't be that person, voting is a necessary if not entirely sufficient act

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

I'm in fact taking a summer vacation from work, because I write a novel and novella in short order and have another novel to write later in the year so I need time to let my brain grow back. So for the summer I'm playing video games and making music and trying not to panic about the world. Fun!

Are you enjoying a writing holiday?

I'm perfectly content with rainy weather on this July 4, but I acknowledge I may be in the minority.

And now for the traditional July 4th blessing: Happy Independence Day, may you end the day with as many fingers as you began it with.

We went flower shopping today and saw this busy creature

Would

Someone just told me about this scene in Brooklyn 99 and of course I immediately thought of @scalzi.com

Happy voting, UK. Make us all proud.

This just in: Krissy says hello.

I would have Lucas plot the story and then Abrams write the script, that where their native strengths as writers are to me

Is Lucas a worse writer than JJ Abrams?

Same, Endless Screaming, same

AAHHHHHHHHHHHH

Krissy did not read a lot of science fiction before she met me, no (she had read fantasy, of the supernatural sort). She reads quite a lot of SF/F now. Her feedback is less about the genre and more about general readability.

Are your books something Krissy would naturally read on her own or no? What kind of stuff does she normally read? I am curious from a feedback perspective whether her being into that genre or NOT being into that genre would be more helpful to you. Or does it matter?(I phrased that awkwardly.)

FINALLY MY MOMENT HAS COME

[S] Your chance to be the steward of 92 wax figures related to John Brown's raid has arrived. cc: @scalzi.com wtop.com/local/2024/0...

As a Harpers Ferry museum closes, its 92 wax figures are looking for a new home - WTOP Newswtop.com The home of the John Brown Wax Museum in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, has been sold. Now, 92 of the 93 wax figures that help tell the story of abolitionist John Brown need a new home.

I can say that by and large the Wikipedia articles about me and my work are accurate. Sometimes errors slip in but they are not fabrications, and generally quickly corrected.

Yeah! This is why I recommend Wikipedia to people who want to know more about molecular biology, because proteins I knew about were accurately described.

LOVE IT

Starter Villain is bookstore cat approved @scalzi.com

One of the advantages, if you want to call it that, of having information of your own that you can check on Large Language Models, is that you quickly understand how badly they get what you know wrong, and if they get that wrong, what are they getting wrong that you DON'T know about?

Oh, God, I just did this with one of my own novels and the results are hilarious. The novel is on-line and free! It got, like, 30% of the plot. It actually identified the theme accurately, but completely hallucinated the three central protagonists!

Go on, you know you want to, all the cool kids are doing it (and by cool kids I mean goth nerds who dig surreal rock novels, which is, like, Bluesky's primary demographic)

The Kickstarter to bring KAMIKAZE L’AMOUR back into print is doing well, but with a week to go it could use some help getting it over the top. Please take a look at it and consider backing the project. Thanks! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kam...