I'm a writer, publishing both as SJ Rozan and, with Carlos Dews, as Sam Cabot. (I'm Sam, he's Cabot.) Here you can find links to my almost-daily blog posts, including the Saturday haiku I've been doing for years. BUT the blog itself has moved to my website. If you go on over there you can subscribe and you'll never miss a post. (Miss a post! A scary thought!) Also, I'll be teaching a writing workshop in Italy this summer -- come join us!
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01: Starting the new year right/write (2 comments)
02: First Saturday (3 comments)
05: Airline security (9 comments)
09: Second Saturday (1 comments)
11: Winter for sure (1 comments)
16: Third Saturday (1 comments)
20: The good news, the bad news (4 comments)
22: And speaking of bad news (7 comments)
22: The Supreme Court didn't go far enough (6 comments)
23: Fourth Saturday (2 comments)
24: From the ridiculous to the ridiculous -- writer needs help! (61 comments)
25: Weather! (8 comments)
26: Better weather (2 comments)
28: Even better weather (3 comments)
30: Fifth Saturday (3 comments)
31: Nice review (5 comments)
February
01: Writing workshop in Assisi, you guys! (1 comments)
03: We have a winner! (8 comments)
04: Ice on the river (3 comments)
07: Sixth Saturday, from Birmingham, AL, one day late (6 comments)
08: Okay, c'mon down (1 comments)
10: Snowpocalypse (7 comments)
13: Seventh Saturday (5 comments)
17: Arrggh (14 comments)
18: The show must go on (0 comments)
19: Progress report (5 comments)
20: Eighth Saturday (2 comments)
21: The show must still go on (3 comments)
26: More progress report, and how the show went on (6 comments)
26: Another snow day (7 comments)
28: Ninth Saturday, one day late (1 comments)
28: Gospel choir competition (3 comments)
March
02: Progress report (2 comments)
03: Talk in Third Person Day (8 comments)
07: Tenth Saturday, one day late (2 comments)
08: Finally (3 comments)
13: Eleventh Saturday (2 comments)
15: Light and rain (2 comments)
17: Can't get over it (3 comments)
19: Still gorgeous (2 comments)
20: Twelfth Saturday (0 comments)
22: HEALTH CARE REFORM!!! (3 comments)
22: Samurai armor (5 comments)
26: Bustin' out all over (3 comments)
27: Thirteenth Saturday (2 comments)
29: Happy Passover! (5 comments)
April
01: Sometimes there's good news (1 comments)
05: Fourteenth Saturday, two days late, from Saratoga Springs, NY (1 comments)
07: It's so beautiful here (4 comments)
09: Public Service Announcement (4 comments)
09: Public Service Announcement #2, on a whole different topic (2 comments)
10: Fifteenth Saturday (1 comments)
11: Hanami (6 comments)
13: You know you want to (4 comments)
15: I got the jackass right here (9 comments)
17: Sixteenth Saturday (2 comments)
22: Sneak preview (16 comments)
24: Seventeenth Saturday (0 comments)
27: Vote now! (7 comments)
28: Keep voting! (1 comments)
May
01: Eighteenth Saturday (0 comments)
05: Fourteen writers, plus wine! (12 comments)
07: Come to Assisi! (6 comments)
08: Nineteenth Saturday (0 comments)
09: A book you want (4 comments)
13: British publication day! (6 comments)
13: British covers (5 comments)
16: Twentieth Saturday, from Sag Harbor, NY, one day late (1 comments)
20: Hi ho, hi ho, it's in the Times we go! (4 comments)
21: Goslings, we got goslings (7 comments)
22: Twenty-first Saturday (4 comments)
23: Assisi writing workshop (1 comments)
25: Oil spill (12 comments)
26: Old joke (6 comments)
29: Twenty-second Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (4 comments)
June
01: Back at the Rancho (7 comments)
04: Wildlife (2 comments)
04: 2010 Anthony Award Nominations (14 comments)
05: Twenty-third Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (4 comments)
06: Action scenes (11 comments)
08: Action scene, the result (11 comments)
08: 2010 Macavity Award Nominations (11 comments)
09: Might this be the time to mention... (3 comments)
10: 2010 Barry Award Nominations (13 comments)
11: Enough about me (3 comments)
12: Twenty-fourth Saturday (2 comments)
17: Letter to Big Oil from a small person (10 comments)
19: Twenty-fifth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (1 comments)
20: Going to Mongolia (15 comments)
23: You guys are the best! (11 comments)
24: Okay, this is it (14 comments)
27: Inauspicious beginning (7 comments)
July
01: This won't be easy (6 comments)
02: Crumbling Russian concrete (3 comments)
19: I'm baaaaack (9 comments)
19: Twenty-sixth Saturday, from Seoul, Korea, three weeks and two days late (2 comments)
19: Twenty-seventh Saturday, from the Mongolian Gobi, two weeks and two days late (1 comments)
19: Twenty-eighth Saturday, from Tsetserleg, Mongolia, one week and two days late (1 comments)
19: Twenty-ninth Saturday, from Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia, two days late (2 comments)
22: Ulaan Bataar 1 (9 comments)
24: Thirtieth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (4 comments)
25: Ulaan Bataar 2 (3 comments)
31: Thirty-first Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (0 comments)
31: We're with the band (7 comments)
August
01: The Mongolian ger (7 comments)
02: THE SHANGHAI MOON strikes again! (9 comments)
03: ...and ON THE LINE'S off to a good start, too! (11 comments)
04: Holy Toledo! Even Kirkus Reviews likes ON THE LINE! (10 comments)
04: Oh, no (8 comments)
05: You know, this blowing your own horn thing... (9 comments)
07: Thirty-second Saturday, from Assisi, Italy (1 comments)
11: Italy, my Italy (5 comments)
11: And just in case you really needed to know what PW thinks about ON THE LINE... (9 comments)
13: Guest worker (7 comments)
14: Thirty-third Saturday, from Assisi, Italy (0 comments)
15: White dove flies with the pigeons (9 comments)
17: Pigeons and songbirds (5 comments)
20: Home again, again (12 comments)
21: Thirty-fourth Saturday (0 comments)
22: Rain, gulls, and ducks (10 comments)
24: I could go off on a whole new MTA rant (5 comments)
25: Time out from controversy for some snaps (4 comments)
26: We clobbered 'em! (3 comments)
28: Thirty-fifth Saturday (1 comments)
29: Dog Day Afternoon (11 comments)
30: Love museums? (3 comments)
30: More Mongolia! (7 comments)
31: THE SHANGHAI MOON... (9 comments)
September
01: Contest! We got a contest! (4 comments)
01: About that speech (5 comments)
01: We WON! (4 comments)
03: Notice of Encroachment (7 comments)
03: And speaking of -oach (4 comments)
04: Thirty-sixth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (3 comments)
04: Everyone sharing (6 comments)
05: Goofus and Gallant Redux (3 comments)
05: Goldfinches (2 comments)
06: We *lost* (2 comments)
06: Reality catches up to fiction (3 comments)
07: The contest's here!
07: We really, really lost (0 comments)
08: ON THE LINE contest photo #2
08: L'Shona Tova! (5 comments)
09: Donald Trump? Book burning, a mosque, crazy people, and Donald Effing TRUMP? (15 comments)
10: ON THE LINE contest photo #3
12: Apologies (12 comments)
13: You guys are the best (7 comments)
14: ON THE LINE contest photo #4
14: Sad news (7 comments)
16: Contest closing! (0 comments)
16: Love the NYC Waterfront? (5 comments)
17: Yom Kippur (5 comments)
19: Thirty-eighth Saturday, one day late (2 comments)
19: Looking up... (6 comments)
20: Success! (12 comments)
20: Winners! Ta-dah! (3 comments)
22: Multi-cormorant morning (2 comments)
24: Go Cory Booker! (2 comments)
24: Guest blogger (7 comments)
25: Thirty-ninth Saturday (0 comments)
26: The Five Snouts of Mongolia (5 comments)
28: Publication Day (11 comments)
30: It's so wet here... (1 comments)
October
01: It's raining, though not pouring (7 comments)
02: Fortieth Saturday (0 comments)
03: He wants to be the King of Kindle (7 comments)
03: New York photos, and a reminder (4 comments)
04: Bill Reinka, R.I.P. (2 comments)
04: A piece of extreme NYC waterfront coolness for you (1 comments)
05: Dancing with Myself (8 comments)
06: Launch Day! (4 comments)
07: What a great launch! (6 comments)
07: Nikita! (1 comments)
08: Now THIS is important (0 comments)
09: Forty-first Saturday (2 comments)
11: On the road with ON THE LINE (3 comments)
22: Forty-second Saturday, from San Francisco, six days late (0 comments)
23: Forty-third Saturday (2 comments)
23: I'm back! And I'm a hamburger! (11 comments)
25: About those hamburgers (3 comments)
25: Desert Botanical Garden (4 comments)
27: Tomorrow, CT! (2 comments)
28: Just found this (0 comments)
30: Forty-fourth Saturday (0 comments)
31: Halloween (15 comments)
November
01: Hey, it's -- (6 comments)
02: GO VOTE (5 comments)
02: Rand Paul??? (14 comments)
03: Coulda been worse (11 comments)
04: The moment of creation (2 comments)
04: If you're looking for me (2 comments)
04: And since it's all about me (2 comments)
07: Forty-fifth Saturday, from Philadelphia, one day late (4 comments)
08: Craft (10 comments)
09: Bufflehead! (1 comments)
10: Is it terrible that I find this hilarious? (7 comments)
12: Ridin' on The Vermonter (9 comments)
13: Forty-sixth Saturday, from Chinatown (1 comments)
15: Did you read IDORU? (3 comments)
17: Bufflehead Two! (0 comments)
19: A Good Eatin' Weekend in NYC (8 comments)
20: Forty-seventh Saturday (2 comments)
21: Thanks, Naomi H! (3 comments)
22: One of my Rancho Obsesso housemates! (1 comments)
23: Philadelphia in fall (2 comments)
24: Quick river bird report (7 comments)
25: Happy Thanksgiving, youse all! (3 comments)
27: Forty-eighth Saturday (0 comments)
28: This is way cool (10 comments)
29: More on way cool (3 comments)
30: I thought it was the thought that counted (5 comments)
December
01: River report (5 comments)
02: Today, on the other hand... (5 comments)
04: Forty-ninth Saturday (2 comments)
05: New York, New York (9 comments)
07: Cardinal sitting in the tree (4 comments)
09: I'M DONE! (13 comments)
11: Fiftieth Saturday (1 comments)
12: Added link (3 comments)
13: In the corner store this morning (9 comments)
16: Oh, is it cold! (6 comments)
17: Hey, I'm on the radio! (3 comments)
18: Fifty-first Saturday (0 comments)
19: Nice end of the year gift (8 comments)
19: New York holiday photos (8 comments)
21: Seriously? (8 comments)
24: Lots of geese (3 comments)
25: Fifty-second Saturday (2 comments)
26: Dude, where's my blizzard? (7 comments)
27: Well all RIGHT (13 comments)
28: Falcon in the yard! (3 comments)
28: A great idea (5 comments)
31: Happy new year, youse guys! (9 comments)
