I just posted my 2001 Liverpool* Guest of Honour speech,“Brilliance, Beauty, Risk” on Shortcovers. Shortcovers is a website of stuff–fiction and not–to download onto your mobile device. Bored on the bus? Go get a story or an essay or an Op-Ed. A lot of it is free. Some of it isn’t. They also make it easy to recommend stuff to others. Go find something fab and tell your friends about it.
Shortcovers is kind of cool, and very easy to use. I think I might post a few more things there. (In fact, while I was thinking about it I put up my Dozen Daily Delights. So easy.) They’ll take anything under 5,000 words–so I could do essays, rants, interviews, anything. (Not much short fiction, sadly, as most of my stuff exceeds the word limit. And not book chapters, because the publishers have those rights.)
Any requests?
[* A Celebration of British SF was organised by Liverpool University and the Science Fiction Foundation. It was exceedingly cool. ]
Nicola Griffith 
Hi Nicola,I saw the following in the Shortcovers Terms of Use and I wondered if it was overly broad for a service like this. I guess a lawyer would be the right person to ask, but I figured a published author like you may be able to gut-check it –>“You acknowledge and agree that all or any portion of the SHORTCOVERS CONTENT may be used, edited, reproduced, published, translated, sublicensed, copied and distributed and/or incorporated into other works in any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such OTHER CONTENT, without compensation of any kind to You except as expressly set out herein.”
I like both selections a lot. Where’d you get that graphic? Is that theirs or something you came up with?
<>mark<>, the key phrase is ‘as expressly set out herein’, and what follows. I’m reasonably comfortable with the setup. I’ve expressly licensed my two things under Creative Commons. (I don’t know who uploaded the Ammonite segment, and I haven’t checked that licence, but that stuff is copyright to me, so if anyone tried to fuck with it I’d have their guts for garters.)I think ShortCovers is a legitimate operation.<>jennifer<>, thanks. The graphic is a < HREF="http://www.wordle.net/" REL="nofollow">wordle<>, I think–it’s automatically generated by the website.
Cool Nicola — I look forward to reading your stuff.