Sure if you're spending all your time shivering it distracts your nervous system I guess

So: Fascism is bad The First Amendment is good Genocide is an actual fucking crime And also: It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

Your carefree days of taxi vomiting are over, freeloaders!

ALL HAIL BLUCIFER

Now I'm getting conflicting reports about whether the Rapture will be on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, and, look, I know that TECHNICALLY no man knows the hour of His coming and all, but if we could actually pin this down on the schedule it'll help me plan the rest of my week, thanks

Also this airplane is AGGRESSIVELY cold, I strongly feel that we should all be issued cardigans

Ha! I don't get upset by crying babies on planes, to be clear. They're babies, they do what they do. Also, I have noise-cancelling headphones and about 100 hours of music downloaded into my phone. I'm fine.

Crying infant on this plane absolutely refusing to be mollified, and you know what, I respect the commitment to the bit

No, I get blurb requests from all over. Nor do I give blurb requests from Tor any special consideration. If I don't vibe with a book, I don't blurb it (and sometimes, I just run out of time to blurb it).

This plane is flying to 2003, apparently

Nothing like having a month-old post resurface somewhere and then wondering what the hell people are going on about in your replies

As I've seen it come up, no, authors don't get paid for writing blurbs for other authors. We do it (mostly) to pay it forward and to bring attention to work we think is good. Also, if an editor/publisher tried to bribe me for a blurb, that email would go up here and on my personal site SO FAST

Look, I understand the Rapture is scheduled for Wednesday but on the off-chance it is cancelled I'll go ahead and show up for my book tour event that day anyway

A wonderful time last night. Denver, see you this afternoon at Tattered Cover!

Spent this afternoon on my hotel couch and bed wrapped up like a burrito and watching YouTube videos. Great time, A++, would burrito again

In some countries yes. In the US, no. We get royalties from book sales, however.

I ALREADY HAVE

Not generally but I suppose I could find out. I do know my library sales are healthy. Also, of course, I very much encourage library use. Libraries are awesome.

PEOPLE I'M SITTING NEXT TO A DOG ON THIS PLANE THIS IS THE BEST PLANE EVER

In fact I'm renting a car and driving the four-stop leg between Cleveland and Winston-Salem, it's all drivable distance and then I'm not constantly connecting through Atlanta

It's all about coordinating schedules with bookstores, and also trying to find flights without connections whenever possible

I'm at the part of the book tour where I have no idea what day of the week it is, I just know what city I'm supposed to be in. Today is Boiseday, and tomorrow is Denverday

Evergreen post for every writer ever

If you go to this bookstore today at the San Diego Airport, you will find a signed Scalzi book.

Thank you everyone who came out to see me at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social tonight! Boise! I will see you tomorrow!

I AM SURROUNDED BY LITERATURE Also I am now at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social for my event that starts at 7pm, come on by!

I'm seeing people deciding to let their season passes to Disney's theme parks lapse, which might be the thing that ultimately gets the company to regain its spine

San Diego what the hell is going on with your airport right now it's a fucking mess

This is something that I’m helping to run this fall: the Green Mountain Book Festival! This year’s headliner is @scalzi.com, and it will take place in Burlington VT on October 18th.

I'm gonna listen to the new Sarah McLachlan album on this plane to San Diego and there's nothing you can do to stop me

Today in airplane boarding revelations: The dude who is surprised that the closed overhead bin is, indeed, full

TSA dog at the gate did not detect the Snickers bar in my backpack, I am officially in the clear

The only good thing I can say about the film version is that it flopped so comprehensively that no one considers it a valid interpretation of the series, which clears a path for another, hopefully far less terrible, attempt somewhere down the line

Airports are stressful for so many reasons but one of the lowkey worst of them is when there are three people yelling on separate loudspeakers all at the same time

Thanks, I don't! I'm home for a few days and then do a two week stretch of conventions and book festivals. It's promotion season for me!

The logic here is alas irrefutable

Nick shouts out Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising" series here, which, unbeknownst to him, is why we are friends

I AM EVERYWHERE like mold wait no no not like mold no

Santa Cruz you were lovely, even with all the vampires. Thank you so much for having me. San Diego: See you tomorrow!

How are these kids still missing it's been, like, 40 years now

WAIT HOW DID THEY KNOW I WAS IN TOWN Well as long as I'm here I guess I'll have an event

Oh, hello, Pacific Ocean. You've been missed.

Yup, back in the Bay Area for sure

Wheels down in California. Santa Cruz, see you tonight!

If you don't know the lyrics to Barrett's Privateers, are you really even a broken man on a Halifax pier?

I've never had an issue traveling as an American, I was slightly curious about what might happen when we were in Venice this year but it literally never once came up and anyway we were the good tourists who were polite and free with our money.

"Oh, so you're Canadian? Name three Tragically Hip songs" www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/t...

Well, but you make the point yourself: you're not a professional. Professional translators are fluent in both languages and have a grasp of context and idiom necessarily for fiction. As for "it must happen a lot," remember translations have been happening for thousands of years before "AI".

If you want to witness the primacy of hope over experience, watch people trying to shove their carry-on into an already full overhead bin during boarding

To be clear, the publishing industry has and always will have its stars and then everyone else, it's the entertainment power law. But at the very least right now everyone gets human editors, artists, etc. When and if that changes, it's going to be harder for new/mid-tier authors to break out.