SCALZI ACHIEVEMENT- UNLOCKED!

I should go to Paris more often!

I've only been there twice,

but once out of those two trips

John Scalzi

released awesome stuff for me to read.

I like those odds!

And I like Mr. Scalzi

so I'm totally eating

his latest novella:

UNLOCKED:

AN ORAL HISTORY OF HADEN'S SYNDROME

A new near-future science fiction novella by John Scalzi, 

one of the most popular authors in modern SF. “Unlocked” traces the medical history 

behind a virus that will sweep the globe 

and affect the majority of the world’s population, 

setting the stage for Lock In, the next major novel by John Scalzi.

And you can 100% check out the 

first couple chapters of

LOCK IN

HERE

Because I went to France.

THE SECRET CHAPTER OF THE HUMAN DIVISION

So as I mentioned in

my last post,

I got to hang out with

Hugo Award winning

sci-fi author

ninja

mallet of loving correction

wielding

John Scalzi

while he was in town

promoting

this:

Which is the 

fifth sequel to

this:

But

The Human Division

was published a little differently

than the others.

Once a week,

from 

January 15th

to

April 9th

a new chapter

was released digitally

for

99 cents.

And every Tuesday,

for 13 weeks,

I parked myself at my favorite

Mexican lunch spot

with a spicy

burrito Massiel

con pollo,

a Jarritos soda

and 

a chapter of 

awesomeness.

But now it's over

and

Tuesdays feel kinda

empty.

Fortunately,

Mr. Scalzi has announced

that he'll be writing a follow up to

The Human Division.

But that's

SO FAR AWAY!!!

So what did I do?

I asked him to 

write me a 

five sentence

chapter

of 

The Human Division 

in my sketchbook.

AND HE DID!

The story is,

of course,

THRILLING

EXCITING

and

filled

with

AWESOME.

See?

Wait...

Look closer:

Yup.

This is perhaps

one of the 

coolest things

that has ever happened

to me.

THANK YOU,

MR. SCALZI!

FYI:

The

hardcover

edition of

The Human Division

is out 

NOW.

Go get it.

And please

shut up

and

go see

Mr. Scalzi

while he's on tour!

SCALZI AND ME

You know I love me some

John Scalzi.

And you know I love me some

Felicia Day.

So the other day whilst

Felicia was recording

Angela for 

Fish Hooks:

We somehow hit on the subject of 

Mr. Scalzi,

whom she is good friends with.

I let slip that I had never actually met him in person

but had indeed made his

List of Awesome People Who

Are Awesomely Awesome. 

Shocked that we hadn't met,

Felicia immediately texted John

to see if he wanted to swing by the recording studio

since he just so happened to be in town promoting

this:

(more on that later)

Mr. Scalzi couldn't make it

but asked if I wanted to drive down to 

Redondo Beach and hang out

before his

book signing.

Um...

...

...

YES!

And hang we did!

We chatted about all nature of things

for a sooper long time

(books, KND, movies, stoopid people, etc)

and as expected,

he's a really

sooper

nice,

smart

and

FUNNY

guy!

He even bought me

a bottle of water!

(he had a diet Mexican soda)

And eventually

 it was time for his reading.

Mr. Scalzi read a chapter from

The Human Division...

And a brilliant

must-read

post from his long-running

blog

WHATEVER

called

WHO GETS TO BE A GEEK?

ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BE

But what was the

bestest

best

part

of meeting

Mr. Scalzi?

When he wrote me

my very own

chapter of 

THE HUMAN DIVISION

in my 

sketchbook:

But ima 

save 

THAT

for 

my next post!