Nicola Griffith

Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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Month: October 2009

Asterix and the golden jubilee

A preparatory sketch for Goscinny and Uderzo’s first book, Asterix the Gaul (1961). Photograph: Les Éditions Albert René / Goscinny-Uderzo The French…

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Posted on October 31, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

PW’s death knell?

Publishers Weekly really screws up: “Every year, PW selects its top 100 books, and for the first time ever PW has upped…

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Posted on October 30, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Elusive plot

I’m chasing plot moths, dashing about in the dark swishing my net trying to catch the flittery things. I know roughly what…

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Posted on October 29, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

links

I’ve seen a handful of things in the last week that are worth blogging about. But I’m in Hild mode, so instead…

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Posted on October 28, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

delicious dialogue

Over at Sterling Editing I have a new blog post up, a discussion of some of Patrick O’Brian’s masterful dialogue. There’s an…

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Posted on October 27, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

random bloggish thoughts

In the last month I’ve had 16,201 visits to Ask Nicola from 90 countries. That’s more visitors than usual: more than 6,000…

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Posted on October 27, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

vodka and The Marketing ‘Plan’

Want to know what it’s like to be a novelist these days? You sell the novel over a pleasant dinner (or an…

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Posted on October 25, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

crow flash mob

I’m still off the grid but, thanks to the wonders of technology, here’s something I wrote three days ago… Yesterday Kelley and…

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Posted on October 24, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

links

I’m still off the grid… Over at Sterling Editing, another roundup of links for emerging and established writers. Enjoy.

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Posted on October 23, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

access! the BookServer project

I’m off the grid for the next few days, but I’ve put together a few posts to go up in my absence……

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Posted on October 22, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild and other updates

Regular readers know that I’ve been working for two years on a novel about Hild of Whitby. I’ve been thinking about her…

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Posted on October 21, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

learning to take it

Over at Sterling Editing, Kelley is talking about how it is to learn, as a writer, to take criticism. She is also…

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Posted on October 20, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

reclaiming your copyright

I’ve just read a fabulously informative post by Jane over on Dear Author. As the Supreme Court in 1943 opined that “authors…

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Posted on October 19, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

trembling with rage

Yesterday I read this blog post about the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a the partner of a woman who died…

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Posted on October 18, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

guess who gets crushed in Wal-Mart vs. Amazon?

Amazon and Wal-Mart are fighting a book-price war. Walmart cut the price of their new hardcovers (blockbusters by Stephen King, John Grisham…

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Posted on October 17, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

an interview: The Outer Alliance Spotlight

Over at Outer Alliance, I talk to Julie Rios about the Lambda Literary Foundation, Sterling Editing, and what it’s like to be…

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Posted on October 16, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

yes, I know about Fampridine/4-AP/bird poison

Yes, I have heard about this: Panel Recommends that FDA Approve Fampridine-SR (proposed name Amaya) for Symptomatic Treatment of MS — Found…

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Posted on October 16, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

my Technorati Authority is unstoppable

Wow. Just read this Technorati ranking for Entertainment/book blogs which I gacked from Joe Sherry over at Adventures in Reading (a fine…

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Posted on October 15, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Always on Book View Cafe

Nancy Jane Moore talks about the self-defence stuff in Always over at Book View Cafe. Nancy was one of my students, long…

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Posted on October 15, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

how not to do dialogue

For your delectation and delight over at Sterling Editing, we have a new editcast on dialogue–Kelley plays Ming the Merciless. I do…

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Posted on October 13, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Doctor Who competition and Vogon-worthy poetry

Blue Peter, the BBC children’s programme, has a competition: design a new console for Dr Who’s Tardis, to be built wholly from…

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Posted on October 13, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

first review of Eclipse 3

Charles Tan reviews my Eclipse 3 story, “It Takes Two.” He likes it. I’m delighted. I never really know what to make…

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Posted on October 12, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Obama’s HRC speech, my line in the sand

I’m gradually recovering–a bit better every day, still a way to go–from Whirling World. Meanwhile for you delectation and delight (or irritation,…

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Posted on October 11, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

a whirling world

No post here today. I have migraine/vertigo. Can’t stand noise and movement. Can’t stand, full stop. These things often last a few…

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Posted on October 9, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

genre and literature: shaking the test tube

I’ve been astounded by the rumpus around the Booker: Harrumph, the litsnobs say, it’s historical fiction, not literature! [Imagine that drawn out…

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Posted on October 8, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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