Scott Pearson

Myself and my wife Sandra with a small park in the background, centered on a large tree, looking down from second floor (third floor in American English) balcony.

An “ussie” (#TedLasso) on the balcony of our flat in Islington.

A Bakewell Tart, several bites already taken from it, resting on a white plate.

Living it up in Islington enjoying my first ever Bakewell Tart.

Selfie: I’m wearing a black t-shirt featuring the Union Jack superimposed over the TARDIS

At our flat in London… is the shirt too on the nose?

I prefer Indigenous Peoples Day to Colonizer Day.

#TeamTilly

New York friends: If you’re having a strange sense of something being not quite right, it may be because I’m at JFK. Already on connecting flight!

I’m in some sort of airport lounge because for the first time in my life I’m not flying in steerage. Feel like a kid who’s sneaked into an adult party. But the T in my G&T is flat as the Dakota plains!

Both parties are the same: Biden was getting forgetful, and Trump tried to overturn an election and now is unleashing the military on American soil. You can hardly tell which is which.

The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Edition Find it. Write it. Cite it. The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. ¶ It is the indispensable reference for ...

Just because we now live in a police state, that's no reason to get sloppy with grammar and style. So here's the new CMOS Q&A!

Nothing like that. Also today it wanted to attach the closing punctuation to a made-up word in a fantasy manuscript, so when I told it to ignore the word, which happened to be followed by a period, it then underlined the same word when followed by an exclamation point. Blurgh.

It's just astonishingly and infuriatingly bad.

screen cap showing MS Word highlighting the word "we" in a sentence for spelling, but then displaying "No suggestions available" for correcting it.

Earlier today, in a different file, here's MS Word thinking something is wrong with the spelling of "we," but it doesn't know what.

And now in a longer document it's done that whole, "You know what? Why don't I randomly spellcheck these English words in French so they're all wrong?" thing.

For a brief moment I thought MS Word spellcheck would function properly all the way through an entire four-page document, but, no, of course it didn't. I know, I know, it's asking a lot of the dominant word-processing program for the last forty years to have a consistently functioning spellcheck.

'Smile,' 'A Quiet Place' comics will expand on movies as IDW Dark charts 2026 horror (exclusive) — Entertainment Weekly A New York Fashion Week-set

I’m looking forward to proofreading both these comic books as my IDW work expands from Star Trek to include horror!

You both got it all wrong, I’m gonna crack this case wide open.

That looks super cool.

Paperback of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. Cover features a woman in Victorian dress and bonnet (back to the camera) on a foggy cobblestone street in the night.

Prepping for London vacation with @hallierubenhold.bsky.social’s The Five.

Writing/Editing/Reading Update, September Edition September was pretty busy. As we’re taking a long vacation starting mid-October, I took on a little more work than usual to make a little more money. I’ll also be working a little while…

Did I stumble around into blogging again? Yes. Yes, I did.

If I ever open a pub, it shall be called the Weeping Fishmonger.

BREAKING: At mysterious Department of War meeting Pete Hegseth unveils new sleeveless uniforms for all branches of the military. "We want to show our enemies all our guns!" Hegseth shouted while doing fifty pushups as the Coast Guard Band played "YMCA."

Fuck this guy. Resist.

At this point in the Police States of America, it's not paranoid to wonder if He-Man Woman Hater's Club President Pete Hegseth's big military meeting is for low-key testing the waters for how many of those invited will stick with Dictator Trump as he orders increasingly illegal military actions.

I think I’ve narrowed it down to only having to work on Star Trek novels and comic books while vacationing in London.

Half-joking idea for a Call the Midwives LEGO set: includes Nonnatus House, Nurse Crane’s car, the Buckles’ shops, and a tenement flat where a baby’s being born.

Low-angle shot of Ripley hanging her head and front legs over the corner of the bed.

Caturday

CSI: Dinkytown

I’ve had a gimlet, I’ve got Louis Armstrong playing, but don’t ask me anything, I’m busy making pizza.

License plate: ONLY-01

Highlander fan?

It's simple, really: Trump thinks it should be illegal to disagree with him. He's a dictator. And since almost nothing he says is true, merely mentioning actual facts is disagreeing with him. In other words, the truth is increasingly illegal in the United States. Because Trump is a fucking dictator.