MORE OF THIS, PLEASE

Finally understand why I’m always mistaken for Neil Diamond.

Wow, NIN audience’s were sure a lot younger back when I was young.

From now on, if something is good I’ll call it “good.” If it’s bad I’ll call it “bad.” Sometimes, in exceptional cases, I’ll employ the modifier, “very.” This will be the full extent of my “slang.”

I was going to go see @scalzi.com at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social tomorrow night but it turns out I’ll be in LA to see NIN. So please inform me if you see me at the bookstore tomorrow because that won’t be me, probably.

2XL remains the best robot. It was $40 and it took combining Christmas and my birthday but was more than worth it.

Supporting independent media is a real way to resist.

Everyone’s dealing with stuff. I thought I was the only one dealing with stuff but, no, there’s other people, too. Rude. I wanted this to be about me.

I have a face made for obscurity.

Another frightening day in the hellhole border town of San Diego.

sestras

Same, Amelia, same.

For morale.

Today I had to remove a dead rat from my dog’s mouth with my bare hand and now I’m calling the advice to see if it’s possible to die from crying.

So I can make a substantial amount of money from the Anthropic settlement or possibly nothing at all is so … publishing.

Fender Taylor Guild G&L Cordoba Larivee ESP USA Kiesel This is an incomplete list of guitar makers that are headquartered and/or have factories in Southern California, where I was born and raised and have lived most of my life. And not a single one has given me a free guitar. Hurt and angry.

Every time there’s litfic vs genre discourse I remember that writing was invented by Sumerians to track beer inventory and I head to the fridge.

Good boy

Dog.

We just got back from silent book club at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social. It was brilliant. 60-70 people sitting around a bookstore with snacks, silently reading. Utterly wholesome. More places should do silent events. Bars. Bowling alleys. Sports events. Movie theaters...

40 years after they did this to @timpratt.org, still a bad idea for a book cover.

Now offering my services as a hate list editor. Reasonable rates. Contact me.

The dogs.

Got my flu shot. You’re welcome.

The user comment really nails Gen-X nostalgia.

The Trader Joe’s chocolate whipped cream is really good. You can just spray it in a bowl for instant mousse. I do that. That’s what I do.

The octo-eyeball thing in Alien Earth is the cutest and I want it to win.

If you’re in San Diego you have little excuse not to have fun learning space stuff with my wife at the Fleet Science Center.

My very favorite part of writing a novel is filling a notebook with great ideas and hilarious jokes and beautiful passages. My least favorite part is ruining it by actually writing the book. #writingProcess

Even if he’s still alive having pre-parties doesn’t cancel the real party.

Night Swimming

Today social media told me a major film/TV production company has acquired one of my novels with a director attached which would be super cool if it were even remotely true.

I don’t frick with ChatGPT so maybe you humans can tell me why my books aren’t more popular.

These go to 12.

we were all happy for an evening and that’s not nothing

I genuinely love how everyone’s in a good mood tonight. 🥰🥰🥰

San Diego, where do we get our refunds for this less than perfect weather? I couldn’t find the office downtown.

From today's Publisher's Lunch:

Hey, if you’ve read THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS (or any book by any author!) and liked it, please leave a review! And share your love of books with friends, family, strangers, internet randolorians, foes, nemeses, woodland creatures, cryptids, prophets, influencers, exfluencers, and filthy hobbitses.

Remember when one of the major ways we communicated was was telephoning someone a loud piece of paper? That sucked.

It’s International Dog Day. Here are dogs.

I please wish all to know that email is the best way to contact me: gregvan @ gmail.com

Show me your guitar. This is Planky, a partscaster I assembled with generic off-the-shelf parts and a body I built from a slab of alder. It’s Jazzmaster shaped but just has one pickup and no switching. It’s hard to intonate because I put the bridge in the wrong place. #guitars

Recently I've been happy to see people recommend my book about dogs on a spaceship, but I want to let folks know the title isn't Dogs in Space or Dogs on a Spaceship, either of which would be fine titles, but it's actually Voyage of the Dogs. Thx! www.harpercollins.com/products/voy...

Being chased by ICE agent Dean Cain and having to wait 7-10 business days for him to catch up

San Diego, it’s hot and moist, even near the beaches. I suggest you stay hydrated. Me, I’m on an all-watermelon diet today,

To boldly go where no one has gone before… and encounter aliens who are already there.

Fellow library patrons, please remember to return your ebooks and audiobooks once you’ve finished them to free up the library’s licensed copies so more people can borrow them.

I last posted about this with everyone at Worldcon, so I'd appreciate a boost if you're willing as the world is noisy and full of horror, but the African SF Novels and Novellas Bundle - curated by Eugen Bacon, is still going strong at StoryBundle, and includes 2 of my novels! storybundle.com/scifi

I should be writing but my brain isn’t working well today so I’m just thinking about the humpback whales I saw last week.