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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Journal Entries for 2003
01: First Saturday (0 comments)
02: Falcon in the park! (6 comments)
05: Divers in the water! (7 comments)
07: Ships and fireworks, you guys! (4 comments)
08: Second Saturday (0 comments)
10: Keeping and bearing arms (8 comments)
12: WHAT??? (12 comments)
13: An interesting panel (2 comments)
15: Third Saturday (0 comments)
15: Quote of the day (11 comments)
19: Proud parent (0 comments)
19: And then there's this, in Brooooooklyn... (4 comments)
20: I'm not going to make any Hu's-on-first jokes (3 comments)
21: Snow ghosts (4 comments)
22: Fourth Saturday (2 comments)
26: Here we snow again (8 comments)
27: There's snow business like snow business (9 comments)
28: Mother Tiger -- Not! (6 comments)
29: Fifth Saturday (1 comments)
30: Choices in Egypt (5 comments)
30: Pre-lunar new year, Chinatown (6 comments)
February
02: Waitin' Room Blues (8 comments)
03: Gung Hay Fat Choy! (3 comments)
03: Waiting, but no blues (9 comments)
04: Digital Book World (4 comments)
05: Sixth Saturday (0 comments)
06: Me and my all-time favorite Knick! (3 comments)
09: Now it can be told (8 comments)
11: Telling a little more (4 comments)
13: Seventh Saturday, one day late, from a northeast corridor train (1 comments)
17: So here's the deal (11 comments)
18: Just had to share this (6 comments)
19: Eighth Saturday (0 comments)
23: Oh, that Hong Kong foot massage! (2 comments)
23: Jaywalking in Singapore (3 comments)
27: Quick from Singapore (5 comments)
28: Ninth Saturday, from Singapore, two days late (0 comments)
28: Hong Kong (0 comments)
March
02: Singapore: the food (5 comments)
05: Tenth Saturday, from Deerfield Beach, FL (3 comments)
07: A few Singapore photos (0 comments)
07: It's back! (3 comments)
08: In the meantime (0 comments)
09: Singapore: the conference, part 1 (6 comments)
12: Eleventh Saturday (2 comments)
13: Shanghai Literary Festival Editor's Picks (3 comments)
18: Twelfth Saturday, from Shanghai (6 comments)
23: Shanghai, post #1 (3 comments)
24: The Literary Death Match (5 comments)
24: Shanghai Lit Fest, the absurd version (0 comments)
26: Thirteeth Saturday (3 comments)
26: Writing contest -- get your novella on! (0 comments)
28: So, what went on in Shanghai? (3 comments)
30: In Japan, disaster makes strange bedfellows (4 comments)
April
02: Fourteenth Saturday, from a Trailways Bus near Albany, NY (0 comments)
03: Shanghai and me, the official duties (3 comments)
03: Summer writing workshop (0 comments)
03: In NYC, finally spring! (5 comments)
04: How I Spent My Time in Shanghai When I Was on the Loose, No. 1 (0 comments)
05: About China (4 comments)
07: Love the future (1 comments)
09: Fifteenth Saturday (2 comments)
10: Chinatown blog (2 comments)
11: On the Asian but unserious tip (0 comments)
12: Since I know you're all coming to Assisi... (0 comments)
12: Missing (0 comments)
13: Because they're so faithful to history (0 comments)
14: The Qianlong Emperor's shoe shop (0 comments)
14: Hey, look what has an Amazon page (7 comments)
15: Water, water... (0 comments)
15: It's a long wait until September... (0 comments)
15: Guerrilla gardening (9 comments)
16: Sixteenth Saturday (0 comments)
16: Writing residencies in India and China! (2 comments)
17: 1001 Chairs for Ai Weiwei (4 comments)
20: So I said something new was coming on Monday (16 comments)
21: The thing that was coming on Monday... (8 comments)
23: Seventeenth Saturday (0 comments)
23: Spring's not exactly bustin' out all over (2 comments)
24: Alarm clocks (6 comments)
29: Crime writing, poetic and otherwise (0 comments)
30: Eighteenth Saturday (0 comments)
30: Yes it IS spring! (1 comments)
May
01: Workers of the World Unite! (0 comments)
02: Bin Laden is dead (13 comments)
04: Death and victory, celebration and contemplation (7 comments)
05: Public service announcement about Kindle typos (8 comments)
07: Nineteenth Saturday (0 comments)
08: East side, west side... (4 comments)
10: Come to Assisi! Such a deal I have for you! (0 comments)
13: Hey Teach! (1 comments)
14: Twentieth Saturday (0 comments)
14: Guerrilla signage (3 comments)
15: For those of you with Nooks... (3 comments)
16: How did we get so lucky? (9 comments)
18: Full moon, high tide, and lots of rain (2 comments)
18: April showers (5 comments)
19: Can I just offer this with no comment? (2 comments)
19: Davis Farms newsletter (4 comments)
21: Twenty-first Saturday (4 comments)
21: Accordion of the day (4 comments)
22: On the other hand (8 comments)
24: Groaners in the house (7 comments)
25: Under One Sun (4 comments)
26: Despite the groaners (0 comments)
27: Meanwhile, back at the Rancho (2 comments)
28: Twenty-second Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (4 comments)
29: Garden, week 1 (2 comments)
June
01: Brown-back gull (1 comments)
03: Down by the riverside (0 comments)
04: Twenty-third Saturday (0 comments)
05: Brooklyn afternoon (3 comments)
06: Non-waterbird (1 comments)
07: That Weiner (15 comments)
08: Comin' in to Los An-gel-es (3 comments)
11: Twenty-fourth Saturday, from Pasadena, CA (1 comments)
13: LA report, part 1 (8 comments)
15: LA report, part 2: KRUNK FU BATTLE BATTLE (3 comments)
17: If you're hungry in NYC this weekend (0 comments)
17: Rain at the Rancho (2 comments)
18: Twenty-fifth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (1 comments)
19: Happy Father's Day (2 comments)
20: LA report, part 3: including Pasadena (2 comments)
21: Happy Make Music NY! (1 comments)
22: Oh, great news! (2 comments)
24: More good news (0 comments)
24: And now for some OTHER good news! (3 comments)
24: And can I just add... (3 comments)
25: About my last 3 posts (4 comments)
25: Twenty-sixth Saturday (4 comments)
28: Roundtrip (0 comments)
28: Coupla things from late Sunday (1 comments)
30: Nature in my backyard (4 comments)
July
02: Twenty-seventh Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (2 comments)
02: More accordions for you (2 comments)
03: What the 4th of July is all about (7 comments)
04: A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam (2 comments)
06: Last season's b'ball team! (2 comments)
07: Grand Jury, dudes (9 comments)
08: Grand Jury report #1 (4 comments)
09: Twenty-eighth Saturday (0 comments)
11: The Rozan Report (7 comments)
13: Big storm brewing (8 comments)
14: More weather (3 comments)
16: Twenty-ninth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (0 comments)
17: Stop! Thief! (6 comments)
18: Monday morning entertainment (4 comments)
19: GO DIANA! (5 comments)
20: Breaking my own rules... (6 comments)
22: Let the battle begin! (1 comments)
23: Thirtieth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (0 comments)
23: Midsomer photos (6 comments)
25: We Wish to Welcome You to Munchkinland (5 comments)
26: I Heart Fred (12 comments)
27: Just because you're paranormal doesn't mean they aren't out to get you (0 comments)
28: Clarification (7 comments)
29: Woo-hoo! (3 comments)
30: Thirty-first Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (3 comments)
30: New camera goes to Rancho Obsesso (6 comments)
30: Ah, youse lose. (14 comments)
August
02: Travel blues (11 comments)
05: Chinquechento Queendichee (5 comments)
06: Churchbells (1 comments)
07: Thirty-second Saturday, from Assisi, one day late (7 comments)
08: SHE'S OFF! (3 comments)
08: GO DIANA! #2 (2 comments)
09: Oh, damn (0 comments)
10: A little evening and night music (4 comments)
12: St. Francis preached to the birds (2 comments)
13: Thirty-third Saturday, from Assisi (2 comments)
14: The farmer della dell (5 comments)
16: Last morning in Assisi (0 comments)
19: I'm back (2 comments)
20: Thirty-fourth Saturday (1 comments)
20: New website! (11 comments)
22: Contest, irresistible, though not mine (10 comments)
24: River report (3 comments)
25: Weather (6 comments)
25: Blame Laurie King (11 comments)
26: Blame Laurie King, one more verse (2 comments)
27: Thirty-fifth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso* (1 comments)
27: Running into Irene (8 comments)
27: River report (5 comments)
28: River report, Sunday morning (3 comments)
28: River report, end of the day (5 comments)
28: River report, end of the day PS (2 comments)
29: Post-Irene thoughts (3 comments)
29: Hoopla hoopla hoopla! (3 comments)
30: Sittin' on the dock on the bay (1 comments)
30: Respect your elders (8 comments)
September
01: While youse are waiting (1 comments)
02: Post-Irene Rancho report (4 comments)
03: Thirty-sixth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (1 comments)
03: Wowee! (5 comments)
04: SEEING THE MOON (3 comments)
05: Last afternoon at the Rancho (2 comments)
06: Detective Dee and the Phantom Flame (2 comments)
07: My fiction and the real world (2 comments)
08: Hey, youse tough guys! ROMANTIC TIMES loves me! (3 comments)
09: B'con B'ball (4 comments)
10: Thirty-seventh Saturday (1 comments)
10: Watching TV? (1 comments)
11: 9/11/11 (6 comments)
12: Publisher's Weekly Centerfold! (6 comments)
12: Publisher's Weekly profile, the pirate version (7 comments)
12: Fall newsletter (5 comments)
13: 30 Days of Chinese Art (5 comments)
13: Goin' to St. Louie, Louie (6 comments)
17: Thirty-eight Saturday, from St. Louis (1 comments)
19: Will report on Bouchercon soon... (0 comments)
19: Reporting on Bouchercon, Part One (7 comments)
20: Macmillan Newsletter, featuring... (1 comments)
20: Reporting on Bouchercon, Part Two (5 comments)
20: And another thing... (3 comments)
21: Yasasin! (5 comments)
21: Counterintuitive, and very interesting (11 comments)
22: Reporting on Bouchercon, Part 3 (4 comments)
22: Holy Toledo! (1 comments)
23: Human rights and me. And you. (7 comments)
24: Thirty-ninth Saturday (1 comments)
24: St. Louis terra cotta, and a little bit of brownstone (8 comments)
25: My buddy Ruth! (1 comments)
25: Damn jellyfish (4 comments)
26: Terra cotta and me (6 comments)
26: Unexpected contest (6 comments)
27: Launch Day! (4 comments)
28: L'Shana Tova, but... (3 comments)
October
01: Fortieth Saturday (2 comments)
02: Basketball again, and an injured ovenbird (9 comments)
03: Further to injured birds (1 comments)
05: GHOST HERO Launch party! (5 comments)
05: And just in time for the launch party (1 comments)
06: What a swell party that was (7 comments)
07: Last night at the Center for Fiction (3 comments)
07: Is the Chinese art market really hot? (4 comments)
07: Do me a favor? (2 comments)
07: What Does Occupy Wall Street Want? (8 comments)
08: Forty-first Saturday (0 comments)
10: The confluence of politics and art (1 comments)
11: Meanwhile, back by the river (4 comments)
12: More than you wanted to know (12 comments)
14: Photos photos photos (1 comments)
15: Forty-second Saturday (3 comments)
15: Not only a Sunday NY Times review... (3 comments)
16: This may be a good time to remind you (3 comments)
16: Evening stroll (8 comments)
18: By the time I get to Phoenix (2 comments)
20: By the time I got back from Phoenix (0 comments)
21: Ghost Stories Live! (1 comments)
22: Forty-third Saturday (0 comments)
23: In case you really need to hear my funny Russian accent (5 comments)
24: Wanna see me again? (2 comments)
25: Newark (1 comments)
27: Rainy river (0 comments)
28: How about... (2 comments)
30: Forty-fourth Saturday, one day late (0 comments)
30: R.I.P., S.O.B. (24 comments)
31: Thank you all so much (10 comments)
November
03: In case you want to hear me without the funny Russian accent (3 comments)
07: Forty-fifth Saturday, from a bus rolling through Connecticut, two days late (1 comments)
09: White and blue (2 comments)
11: Go, NYC Harbor School! (0 comments)
11: So you want to study with me? (3 comments)
12: Forty-sixth Saturday (0 comments)
13: The hat trick! The Trifecta! (5 comments)
14: If you haven't gotten enough of me... (2 comments)
14: Isn't it Romantic? (5 comments)
15: OCCUPY (3 comments)
15: Who but SJ Rozan is gonna bring you THIS? (6 comments)
16: Speaking of human rights (1 comments)
17: Miami tomorrow! (0 comments)
20: Forty-seventh Saturday, from Miami, one day late (0 comments)
21: Wow! (4 comments)
22: Goodbye, Skip (3 comments)
23: Miami last weekend, part 1 (1 comments)
24: Thanksgiving (9 comments)
26: Forty-eighth Saturday (0 comments)
27: New York afternoon (1 comments)
28: Hey! NPR! (2 comments)
30: Curbside haiku! (3 comments)
December
01: Cold by the river (4 comments)
03: Forty-ninth Saturday (0 comments)
04: Peking geek-out (9 comments)
05: In a fog (4 comments)
06: Black ducks! (3 comments)
06: Addendum -- squirrel renovation (13 comments)
07: Addendum addendum (9 comments)
09: Red in tooth and claw, and tail (1 comments)
10: The Washington Post! (1 comments)
11: Fiftieth Saturday, from a train in New Jersey, one day late (0 comments)
12: Winter wandering, NYC (3 comments)
13: The gang's all here (0 comments)
14: Step up, all you cop-poets/poet-cops. (0 comments)
15: Chinatown music-making (4 comments)
16: Best of the Year (2 comments)
17: Fifty-first Saturday (0 comments)
18: Don't tell the accordionists (9 comments)
18: Could I have been in a bad mood, you think? (5 comments)
19: No shades of gray (4 comments)
19: Huffington Post! (5 comments)
20: Love, actually (2 comments)
21: I've been watching this for years (0 comments)
23: Room and board (3 comments)
23: It's beginning to look a lot like... (6 comments)
24: Fifty-second Saturday (2 comments)
25: Peace (4 comments)
26: My Christmas dinner posse (1 comments)
28: Housekeeping (5 comments)
30: Morning at the end of the year (2 comments)
31: Fifty-third Saturday (and ain't that a kick in the head?) (3 comments)
