Bloggasm

I went to the internets superstar John Scalzi’s book reading tonight in Richmond. The small room was packed and we got to hear the first chapter of his unfinished novel. Afterwards, there was a Q and A period where people asked him about everything from his books to his blog to his home life.

Naturally, seeing as how I write for Bloggasm, I was interested in his thoughts on his ability to use the internet to promote his books. Could he credit his own site’s popularity, combined with the help of Instapundit and Boingboing, as the driving force to his success as a novelist? For some reason I thought he would give the internets their due but at the same time credit other major influences, like newspaper reviews or something, but he was surprisingly straightforward in saying that he thinks that the internet support created a tipping point (to borrow from Gladwell) that was the major factor in his success.

Anyway, in the above picture he’s pointing at me, accusing me of trying to catch him in an embarrassing act. In the one below, he accepts a famed bacon cat birthday card.

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