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November 2026

  1. View From a Hotel Window, 11/6/26: Royal Oak, MI
  2. How to Get Signed & Personalized Books From Me For the Holidays, 2026 Edition
  3. View From a Hotel Window 11/5/26: Chicago, IL
  4. The Big Idea: Daryl Gregory
  5. The Big Idea: Curtis C. Chen
  6. View From a Hotel Window 11/4/26: Franklin, IN
  7. Thoughts From a Tsunami
  8. I Really Need To Clean My House So Here’s Saja
  9. Monsters of Ohio is OUT!!!
  10. The Big Idea: Nancy Kress
  11. My Voting Recommendations, 2026
  12. Hey, I Was on NPR’s Weekend Edition Today, Talking About Monsters of Ohio

October 2026

  1. The Big Idea: Chris Gerrib
  2. When the Cat Steals Your Chair
  3. The Big Idea: Sharon Shinn
  4. A Lovely Stay At Cleveland’s Fidelity Hotel
  5. The Big Idea: Wole Talabi
  6. Further Thoughts on the Googlebook, in Comparison to the MacBook Air
  7. The Big Idea: Kevin J. Anderson
  8. Guess What’s Arrived at the Scalzi Compound
  9. Eight Bucks Well Spent
  10. Last Chance to Get Signed/Personalized Copies of Monsters of Ohio via Subterranean Press
  11. Please Admire My MileHiCon Mad Scientist Coat
  12. View From a Hotel Window, 10/22/26: Aurora, CO
  13. The Big Idea: A. T. Sayre
  14. When the Moon Hits Your Eye a 2027 Semi-Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor
  15. Yes, You Should Absolutely See “Resident Evil” Before It Leaves The Theater
  16. The Big Idea: Stephanie Feldman
  17. What a Good “AI” Policy Looks Like
  18. Blurb Hiatus Through the Rest of 2026
  19. The Big Idea: Jonathan Maberry
  20. My First Science Fiction Short Story, Published 25 Years Ago Today
  21. I’m in the New York Times Today, Talking About Monsters
  22. The Big Idea: William C. Tracy
  23. Horse Apple, With Dog
  24. The Big Idea: Madame McCoy
  25. First Impressions: Dell XPS Googlebook and the Googlebook OS
  26. View From A Hotel Window, Cleveland: 10/10/2026
  27. View From a Hotel Window 10/9/26: New York City (Again)
  28. The Big Idea: Dmitri Lincoln Melhorn
  29. Colonoscopy Post-Mortem
  30. The Big Idea: Mia V. Moss
  31. Away From Keyboard Today
  32. The Big Idea: Jocelyn Cullity
  33. Voting: Done!
  34. Free Pastries & Free Wine
  35. A Different Side of Me
  36. Adventures In Kennywood
  37. The Big Idea: Fiona Moore

September 2026

  1. FYI: Writing Things Moving Slower For a Bit
  2. Another Kitten Placement Adventure!
  3. How I Handle Fan Mail and Requests, 2026 Edition
  4. The Big Idea: Gillian Daniels
  5. And Now, For Their 35th Anniversary, My First Two Professional Movie Reviews
  6. View From a Hotel Window, 9/25: New York City
  7. Our Thrilling New Purchase
  8. And Now, Just Because it’s Pretty, Succulent Flowers After the Rain
  9. The Big Idea: Mary G. Thompson
  10. Trying Out A New Recipe: Eat At Maude’s “Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread With Espresso Frosting”
  11. The Big Idea: Peter Watts
  12. A Sweary Paean To Autumn, Told in Bluesky Form
  13. 50th Anniversaries and When I’ll Hit Them
  14. Trying Out A New Recipe: Well Made By Kylie’s Brown Butter Banana Pudding Cupcakes
  15. The Big Idea: Jasmine Kuliasha
  16. I Assure You All That My “Dad Joke” Powers Are At Their Full and Terrible Peak
  17. The Big Idea: Wendy Waring
  18. Announcing the Midwest Monster Tour, November 3 – 15!
  19. The Big Idea: Joanne Merriam
  20. The Big Idea: Marissa Lingen
  21. Today in “Places You Might Not Expect to Find Me”
  22. Bacon Cat 20 Year Anniversary + 28 Years of Whatever
  23. Revisiting “The Speckless Sky,” 25 Years Later
  24. Requesting Recommendations: Cleveland!
  25. The Big Idea: Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
  26. NYC Appearance: September 26 at the Villa Albertine
  27. The Big Idea: K. Ancrum
  28. Photo of a Cat, Annoyed That He Was Made to Go to the Vet
  29. The Big Idea: Amanda J. McGee
  30. Monsters of Ohio Starred Review in Library Journal
  31. Happy Birthday, Star Trek
  32. The New Hugo at Home Plus a Tour of My Shelves
  33. The Big Idea: Betsy James
  34. View From A Hotel Window, 9/4/2026: Atlanta
  35. View From a Hotel Window, 9/3/26: Tampa, FL
  36. The Big Idea: Janci Patterson
  37. I Am Traveling Yet Again, Please Enjoy This Photo of Fungus In My Absence
  38. The Big Idea: Steven T. Gibbon
  39. How to Be the Most Annoying Person at Worldcon, 2026 Edition
  40. As Promised, the 2026 Hugo Award Follow-up Post
  41. Also Here is My Hugo Acceptance Speech This Year
  42. Reviews of Monsters of Ohio in Kirkus (Starred!) and Publishers Weekly

August 2026

  1. Suddenly: Hugo!
  2. We Bought Art
  3. The Big Idea: Chris Gerrib
  4. And Now, Last’s Night’s Lunar Eclipse
  5. The Big Idea: Victor Ladis Schultz
  6. View From a Hotel Balcony, 8/26/26: Anaheim
  7. Proof Of Gift Closet Progress
  8. The Big Idea: Anand Gandhi and Zain Memon
  9. Dolly Parton, RIP
  10. The Big Idea: Carolyn Ives Gilman
  11. The Pixel 11 Pro: It’s Fine.
  12. View From A Hotel Window, 8/21/2026: Columbus
  13. The Big Idea: Suyi Davies Okungbowa
  14. And Now, An EP-Sized Selection of Deep Cuts
  15. Daily Reminder To Not Listen To Google’s AI Overview
  16. The Big Idea: Tim Pratt
  17. Warning: Smudge is Likely Judging You
  18. The Big Idea: James Patrick Kelly
  19. Trying Out Thrive Market: The Last Installation Of My Online Grocery Shopping Membership Journey
  20. The Big Idea: David Ebenbach
  21. Trying Out Martie Goods
  22. Say Hello to My Warty Friend
  23. The Big Idea: Ryan Lowell
  24. Giving Misfits Market A Try
  25. The Shattering Peace Now Out in Trade Paperback
  26. Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense Of Guitar Hero
  27. I Ate a Large Meal of Indian Food and Foolishly Assumed I Would Then Be Able to Function in the Afternoon, So Here is Saja and Charlie to Cover For Me While I Recover
  28. New Cover: “So Alive”
  29. Thrifting A “Gift Closet”
  30. Generative “AI”: The Guitar Hero of Creativity
  31. The Big Idea: Shami Stovall
  32. The Big Idea: Griffin Barber
  33. Saja Wants You To Think About What You Did
  34. The Big Idea: Virginia Shaffer
  35. The Shattering Peace a Dragon Award Finalist + 2026 Hugo Voting Reminder
  36. New Cover Song: “Ode to Somewhere”

July 2026

  1. Another Reason Not to Use “AI” For Your Writing
  2. My 2026 LAcon/Worldcon Schedule
  3. New Front Porch Furniture and a Scalzi Compound Outdoor Area Overview
  4. The Big Idea: Alex Shvartsman
  5. I’m Taking the Weekend Off So Please Enjoy This Picture of Saja in the Meantime
  6. Final Full Day of the John Scalzi Humble Bundle Benefitting World Central Kitchen
  7. The Big Idea: C. J. Beshara
  8. The Astra Award Arrives at the Scalzi Compound
  9. A Month Of Driving My New Car
  10. Various & Sundry, 7/22/26
  11. The Big Idea: Ali Trotta
  12. Back Home, 7/20/26
  13. Perhaps the Loneliest Volleyball Court in North Carolina
  14. The Big Idea: John Wiswell
  15. View From a Hotel Window, 7/16/26: Greensboro, NC
  16. Krissy Has a New Toy
  17. A Writing Exercise I Did Today I Figured I’d Share
  18. The Big Idea: Vonda N. McIntyre
  19. A Very Unimportant Experiment Regarding Nuts
  20. The Big Idea: Arvind Ethan David
  21. A Quick Thank You To Bee Inspired
  22. I Regret To Say That GMail is Now a Spam Farm, or, Why You Should Really Get That Dedicated Email Address Now
  23. Various and Sundry, 7/12/26

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