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!
Journal Entries for 2016
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Journal Entries for 2014
Journal Entries for 2013
Journal Entries for 2012
Journal Entries for 2011
Journal Entries for 2010
Journal Entries for 2009
Journal Entries for 2008
Journal Entries for 2007
Journal Entries for 2006
Journal Entries for 2005
Journal Entries for 2004
Journal Entries for 2003
01: First of the year (6 comments)
02: We hit "send!" (4 comments)
03: Circumzenithal arc! (7 comments)
05: First Saturday (2 comments)
07: Five squirrels in the back yard (4 comments)
09: Lots of junk in the river today (0 comments)
09: Brooklyn Botanical Garden in winter (5 comments)
12: Second Saturday (0 comments)
13: Noir at the Bar (0 comments)
14: Get your writing on! (0 comments)
15: There's junk in the river (23 comments)
20: Third Saturday, from University of Pennsylvania campus, one day late (1 comments)
21: Free short story! (5 comments)
22: Inaguration thoughts (1 comments)
23: This is so taxing (8 comments)
24: My writing partner's in town (4 comments)
26: Fourth Saturday (0 comments)
31: Where have I been? (7 comments)
31: Prize pupil (1 comments)
February
01: Goodbye, Ed (0 comments)
02: Fifth Saturday (0 comments)
03: On my mind (14 comments)
06: Life and death (6 comments)
07: So, the squirrels (10 comments)
08: Snow snow snow snow snow (4 comments)
09: Sixth Saturday (0 comments)
09: Free eBook Free eBook Free eBook Free eBook (6 comments)
09: Happy Year of the Snake! (12 comments)
11: So long, Nemo (0 comments)
11: The Pope gives me an opening (6 comments)
12: Post-storm wildlife (3 comments)
13: More wildlife reports (5 comments)
13: Ash Wednesday (2 comments)
16: Seventh Saturday (0 comments)
17: Bella has a breakthrough (10 comments)
18: Duckudrama (6 comments)
18: Chinese New Year (3 comments)
19: I love New York (6 comments)
20: Advice needed (2 comments)
21: Green and blue and white all over (0 comments)
21: Nasi lemak (4 comments)
24: Eighth Saturday, from Dead Horse Bay, Brooklyn, one day late (1 comments)
24: How I spent my birthday, or, Oh, what a geek I am! (5 comments)
26: Tragedy narrowly averted, or, knowledge is relaxing (5 comments)
27: I love New York (7 comments)
March
02: Ninth Saturday (0 comments)
03: The Papabili (1 comments)
03: Staten Island Noir (5 comments)
04: Can it be? (2 comments)
05: o hi o hi oberlin (2 comments)
05: Holy Cow! I forgot all about the floating fruit! (3 comments)
08: Wow (5 comments)
11: Back from the west (1 comments)
11: The Conclave (7 comments)
11: Tenth Saturday, from San Francisco, two days late (0 comments)
12: Pope betting odds (4 comments)
13: Habemus Papam (2 comments)
13: I am wrong as usual (7 comments)
14: Sam Cabot speaks (1 comments)
15: Sam Cabot offers a link (0 comments)
16: Eleventh Saturday (2 comments)
17: That unknown Getty heir strikes again (9 comments)
21: And the answer is... (1 comments)
22: Career Day at PS 124 (6 comments)
23: Twelfth Saturday (3 comments)
23: Note on the Knicks (0 comments)
24: For harbor fans (1 comments)
24: It's not just the Pope doing Sam Cabot's publicity (7 comments)
26: Spring? she asks cautiously (5 comments)
28: Because I'm nuts (4 comments)
28: Further to Bella and her mouse (2 comments)
29: I wish I could love the circus (4 comments)
April
01: Thirteenth Saturday, from Somerville, MA, two days late (0 comments)
01: SJ Rozan reads! (0 comments)
03: I love New York (5 comments)
05: Squirrely's progeny (7 comments)
06: Fourteenth Saturday (0 comments)
06: Two squirrels flat on their bellies on the fence (5 comments)
08: Daffodils (2 comments)
08: In case you're not on my mailing list (0 comments)
09: For the architects in the room (2 comments)
11: MOMA and the Folk Art Museum building (3 comments)
13: Fifteenth Saturday (1 comments)
15: New York loves Boston (0 comments)
16: This knocked me over (3 comments)
16: Looking at these helps me right now, anyway (8 comments)
18: As long as I'm in a foul mood (0 comments)
19: THIS is a hero (4 comments)
19: Understatement of the Year Award (0 comments)
20: Sixteenth Saturday (3 comments)
21: Do good, do well (12 comments)
25: More on MOMA and the Folk Art Museum (0 comments)
25: Anonymous hits North Korea (0 comments)
26: Piggsy (2 comments)
27: Seventeenth Saturday (0 comments)
27: I know you're wondering what Sam Cabot's up to (1 comments)
28: Wildlife morning (9 comments)
29: Great day yesterday (1 comments)
29: And speaking of being a jock (0 comments)
30: Well, that was a helluva non-story (0 comments)
May
01: Mayday! (1 comments)
05: Eighteenth Saturday, from Chinatown, one day late (0 comments)
05: A great Edgar week (3 comments)
06: Come to Assisi... (3 comments)
06: A short-short story set in Mongolia? Why, of course. (3 comments)
08: Have I mentioned how much I hate writing action scenes? (7 comments)
09: Finished the damn fight scene (7 comments)
10: Spring on the river (8 comments)
11: Nineteenth Saturday (0 comments)
11: A squeezebox of a different kind (3 comments)
13: Monday morning word count (10 comments)
14: Wondering why there hasn't been a Lydia Chin movie yet? (12 comments)
14: Hey, look! (2 comments)
14: The bike racks are coming, the bike racks are coming! (8 comments)
15: Squirrel family dynamics (5 comments)
15: Further to the bike racks (3 comments)
16: I just can't let it go, can I? (0 comments)
16: Why I should stick to writing and teaching writing, and quit giving advice (9 comments)
17: Video clip (4 comments)
17: Video clip redux (3 comments)
17: And speaking of (re)dux, I can tell you why we're not up to our necks in geese (2 comments)
17: Video clip final redux (0 comments)
18: Twentieth Saturday (0 comments)
18: Goose photo (1 comments)
23: Damn (5 comments)
24: Heading to the Rancho (3 comments)
24: BLOOD OF THE LAMB interview on Youtube, Part I of probably about a million (0 comments)
25: Twenty-first Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (1 comments)
27: Memorial Day (3 comments)
30: Bird report (3 comments)
31: Different kind of Bird Bash (2 comments)
31: Oh, that Penguin (8 comments)
31: Look! Sam Cabot makes the LA Times summer reading list! (4 comments)
June
01: Twenty-second Saturday (0 comments)
01: 88 Pianos in NYC (7 comments)
06: Why I live in the big city (2 comments)
08: Twenty-third Saturday (0 comments)
08: Ma Chin strikes again! (4 comments)
11: Sam Cabot's early reviews (5 comments)
12: Renovations (2 comments)
14: I love New York (5 comments)
15: Twenty-fourth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (2 comments)
15: Sam Cabot strikes again (0 comments)
15: Twenty-fourth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso, addendum (0 comments)
16: That's what I get (3 comments)
18: I love New York (9 comments)
19: Hey, look! (2 comments)
20: At the risk of... (0 comments)
21: Give me that country fiddle any day (10 comments)
22: Twenty-fifth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (0 comments)
23: Like haiku? (1 comments)
25: Books in a box! (3 comments)
26: I'm a little teary (4 comments)
26: Bella the Cat (10 comments)
27: A first-rate thriller! (2 comments)
28: Accordions every week! (3 comments)
29: Twenty-sixth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (0 comments)
July
02: Rockaway rises. (The Rocakways rise?) (1 comments)
03: I love New York (2 comments)
04: Happy Fourth of July (2 comments)
05: Bella the Cat (5 comments)
06: Twenty-seventh Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (2 comments)
07: Rancho Bird Report (7 comments)
08: Thrillerfest (2 comments)
10: Reviews we never want to get (6 comments)
12: Thrillerfest (0 comments)
19: Twenty-eighth Saturday, from midtown Manhattan, six days late (2 comments)
19: Trying to catch up (4 comments)
21: Having trouble posting (0 comments)
21: Dispatches from San Diego (2 comments)
21: Twenty-ninth Saturday, from San Diego, one day late (1 comments)
22: Comic Con -- first blog photo (2 comments)
22: Yes, the time has come... (0 comments)
22: Can NOT resist sharing this! (2 comments)
24: New book index cards (5 comments)
25: I love New York (1 comments)
26: Comic Con photos (8 comments)
27: Thirtieth Saturday (0 comments)
28: Thunderbird Pow Wow (4 comments)
August
02: Listening to the bells again (3 comments)
04: Thirty-first Saturday, from Assisi, one day late (0 comments)
04: Posting while I can (8 comments)
05: Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow (7 comments)
06: The page 69 test (2 comments)
07: I learned a new word (5 comments)
08: If you're really desperate to hear our voices (0 comments)
08: Horses in the field, gelato in the piazza (3 comments)
09: Can't resist (4 comments)
10: Thirty-second Saturday, from Assisi (5 comments)
11: Last day in Assisi (2 comments)
14: Leaving Rome tomorrow (6 comments)
16: BLOOD OF THE LAMB New York launch (2 comments)
17: Thirty-third Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (1 comments)
17: High praise indeed (6 comments)
20: Damn. Elmore Leonard, RIP. (3 comments)
22: I interview Elmore Leonard (1 comments)
24: Thirty-fourth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (2 comments)
24: I love the North Fork (3 comments)
24: BLOOD OF THE LAMB New York launch, part two (the part with pictures) (6 comments)
25: New favorite line from a review (0 comments)
30: I'm back (8 comments)
31: Thirty-fifth Saturday, from Rancho Obsesso (0 comments)
September
01: And now, from the Dept. of You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (4 comments)
02: Holy Crap, folks! Look at this! (4 comments)
04: May you be written down in the Book of Life (5 comments)
06: Closing up the Rancho (5 comments)
07: Thirty-sixth Saturday (3 comments)
09: Victory is mine! (6 comments)
10: I drank the stuff anyway (3 comments)
11: 9/11 (4 comments)
12: Bouchercon Basketball (0 comments)
13: I love New York (1 comments)
15: Thirty-seventh Saturday, one day late (1 comments)
17: Four mourning doves (1 comments)
18: Where to find me at Bouchercon (plus bonus: the Brooklyn Book Festival) (4 comments)
18: Bella update (6 comments)
22: Thirty-eighth Saturday, from Albany, NY, one day late (0 comments)
24: Bella the Cat (7 comments)
26: Bonus bonus extra free free free! (2 comments)
26: Speaking of BLOOD OF THE LAMB, look... (3 comments)
26: Hey! (4 comments)
28: Thirty-ninth Saturday (0 comments)
28: And speaking of haiku (0 comments)
29: In which Bella the Cat catches a mouse because of the free BLOOD OF THE LAMB bonus content (11 comments)
October
02: I love New York (2 comments)
03: Terrific online opportunity (1 comments)
05: Fortieth Saturday (0 comments)
07: SJ Rozan, the lost works (7 comments)
08: Disrespect and decisions (0 comments)
09: Book Riot! (4 comments)
09: On the road again (4 comments)
10: Quick last-for-awhile blog (5 comments)
14: WHILE THE CAT'S AWAY... (2 comments)
16: AND THE MICE WILL PLAY... (4 comments)
20: AND THE MICE STILL PLAY... (2 comments)
29: I'm back (7 comments)
31: I love New York (9 comments)
November
04: I love New York (6 comments)
06: Last chance (0 comments)
07: Forty-first Saturday, from Shanghai, three weeks and five days late (1 comments)
07: Forty-second Saturday, from Dongshuan, two week and five days late (0 comments)
09: Forty-fourth Saturday, one week late* (0 comments)
09: Forty-fifth Saturday (2 comments)
12: Oh, such company! (2 comments)
13: River report (7 comments)
14: River report addenduck (2 comments)
16: Forty-sixth Saturday (0 comments)
18: The real mayors of New York (2 comments)
21: Filipino resilience (0 comments)
22: For JFK (2 comments)
23: Forty-seventh Saturday (2 comments)
25: Two takes on Asian women (1 comments)
26: Have I mentioned how much I hate action scenes? (7 comments)
28: Thanks (12 comments)
30: It's Small Business Saturday (1 comments)
30: Forty-eighth Saturday (0 comments)
December
02: Wildlife report (6 comments)
03: Wildlife report, the academic version (8 comments)
06: Nelson Mandela, RIP (2 comments)
07: Forty-ninth Saturday (1 comments)
08: Snow, and some noir holiday gifts (2 comments)
11: Take that, Evil Neighbors! (6 comments)
12: And speaking of Evil Neighbors (1 comments)
13: And speaking of speaking of Evil Neighbors (4 comments)
14: Fiftieth Saturday (0 comments)
15: I love New York (6 comments)
16: Don't forget the auction! (2 comments)
17: On the sale of Native American artifacts (4 comments)
17: Shanghai photos (3 comments)
19: More China photos -- Li Jiang (3 comments)
21: Fifty-first Saturday (0 comments)
23: River report (5 comments)
24: More China photos -- Rock's Village (3 comments)
25: Peace (8 comments)
28: Fifty-second Saturday (2 comments)
29: River report (2 comments)
30: Sierra Club Stooges (1 comments)
31: Looking ahead (6 comments)
