Hey, remember when @torbooks and I told you my upcoming book would be out on March 22, 2022 and then you were all like UUUUNGH WHY DO I HAVE TO WAIT SOOOO LOOOONG?!? Well, good news: we've moved up the release date! One week! To March 15! Yes! Now the Ides of March has monsters!
(Audio and ebook will be out the same day. If you're in the UK, it'll be out March 17. The Broadway musical will be out in 2025. One of these release dates is not (yet) accurate. You guess which one.)
To those asking UNNNNGH WHY CAN'T YOU MOVE IT UP SOOOOONER?!? Because @torbooks already has the rest of its 2021 releases scheduled and me cutting into another Tor author's release date would be a real dick move. I do not wish to be a dick to other authors! Also, marketing, etc.
ALSO REMEMBER: You don't have to wait to preorder "Kaiju" - your local bookseller (or favorite online retailer) can do that right now, and @audible_com has it up for preorder now as well. Think of it as giving yourself a present, several months from today. You're so good to you!

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10 Jul
1. Fun fact: lots of men have won Hugos in the last several years. Last year alone: Max Gladstone, James SA Corey (who counts as two), Neil Gaiman and John Picacio among others. Men are not notably underrepresented with rockets these days.
2. Mind you, this person seems to think "The Hugos" are limited to only the Best Novel category; they're not. Also, that category has been amply represented by excellent works; it's hard to gainsay, from a creative or technical point of view, any individual finalist work.
3. This person lists authors whose novels they feel should be finalists, and finds it curious they weren't. The fact is, however, there are only six finalists in any year; there will always be worthy works that don't show up on the finalist list. It's the nature of awards.
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28 Jun
After literally years of seeing this advertised on the highway, we finally stopped off the road to check this place out. Because who doesn't like candles? The Warm Glow Candle Company Outlet Store
The interior looks exactly as you would expect it to. Candles and rural Americana. It smelled FABULOUS. If you like wax and knick knacks, this is your store!
Seriously considered getting that wreath up there at the top. Massive "fall harvest" wreath.
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22 Jun
Tonight's sunset. The Sun has started its path back southward. Very ribbony clouds this evening.
The reverse angle on tonight's sunset. A rainbow dipped in fire.
One more from tonight's sunset collection. The clouds at dusk. Very very very red.
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11 Jun
1. PR folks: Hey, can we send you a @mythic_quest swag box, which you will then talk about on your socials?

Me: I HAVE STANDARDS

PR: It comes with a T-shirt.

ME: THAT IS MY STANDARD SEND THIS SWAG BOX

The Mythic Quest Swag Box is here. Embark on this journey with me. The Mythic Quest swag box which is lovely muted shade of tea
2. (For those of you who do not know, @mythic_quest is an @AppleTV workplace comedy series about life at a video game development company, which started its second season last month. Here is the trailer for Season Two.)

3. ANYWAY BACK TO THE SWAG BOX. First up: An Apple TV 4k streaming box, as @AppleTV+ is a streaming service; they want to make sure I can access the #MythicQuest series (as it happens I already have an Apple TV+ subscription, which I got to watch Greyhound. But it's still nice!). The Apple TV 4k streaming device. With remote!
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Off to write until this afternoon, but before I go, some pictures in a series I call "What I Saw As I Went to Retrieve My Damn Dog From the Neighbor's Deck Because She Ran Off to Hang Out With the Dog Who Lives There and Maybe Cadge Treats From Its Owner."

First: Mulberries! The mulberries are in various shades of ripe: Purple, red an
Second: A cicada, quietly preparing for another day of being loud as Hell. It's just hanging out on the leaf of an iris plant.
Third: a field flower known as Moth Mullein, which is also the name of my third-favorite minor character in Star Wars. Its flowers are yellow and it's cover in tiny insects who ar
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26 May
Today a lot of people seem to be confusing "Old Man's War" with "The Forever War" and it might have something to do with a movie trailer that just came out with a title vaguely similar to both.
And also, no, I'm not especially worried if the movie in question "borrows" from my book. Any science-fiction-themed military story is going to have elements similar to mine, and vice-versa. We're all swimming in the same pool, folks. It's okay. There's enough different.
I remember people asking me if I was angry with "Avatar" for the brain-transfer thing, and I was, no, honestly, he probably stole it from the same batch of stories I stole it from, so I can't exactly be upset about that. Same idea here.
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