Nicola Griffith

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

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Month: March 2010

iPad guided tours–check out iBooks

Some links relating to Apple’s book plans. Start with this nifty wee guided tour of iBooks (you’ll have to pick iBooks out…

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Posted on March 31, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The miracle of chocolate

We had rain rain rain all day yesterday–but I didn’t care, I had chocolate cloud cake with whipped cream (and dusted with…

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Posted on March 30, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Books save lives. Queer books save queer lives.

Dear Friend: Books change lives. Sometimes books save lives. Queer books save queer lives. My first novel, Ammonite, was a mass market…

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Posted on March 29, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My Friday night

Château Léoville Poyferré, a delicious 1995 Saint Julien. One of those practically perfect Bordeaux: fruit, dust, sun-warmed dirt, but with structure. I…

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Posted on March 28, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Future of the magazine

Paid Content has an interesting article about the iPad and the future of the magazine. I was particularly struck by this: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8217311&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1…

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Posted on March 27, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

I’m judging a writing competition

Over at Sterling Editing we have our usual weekly round up of links for writers, including mention of a competition I’m helping…

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Posted on March 26, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Lost Man Booker Prize–vote for Mary Renault!

Via Lambda Literary: The shortlist for The Lost Man Booker Prize — a one-off prize to honor the books published in 1970…

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Posted on March 25, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

I’m struck by some news today

I’ve been struck by several items of news today, but before I get there, let me urge you to go to Locus…

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Posted on March 25, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Ravine World

I’ve been sitting on the deck in the sun, watching, listening, comparing today’s garden and ravine sights and sounds with those of…

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Posted on March 24, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Impatience is not our friend

On Friday, over at Sterling Editing, we did our usual weekly roundup of links for writers, including this one about how, sometimes,…

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Posted on March 22, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The future of publishing

Penguin are beginning to figure out that the trick to business success is to listen to your customers. That is, the end…

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Posted on March 19, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

I’m back!

On Monday I informed the board of the Lambda Literary Foundation that I will be taking a leave of absence until the…

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Posted on March 17, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Lambda Literary Award Finalists

Lambda Literary has the news: The news you’ve been waiting for: after four months of reading, deliberating, and consulting, 87 dedicated (and…

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Posted on March 16, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

New Robin Hood trailer

New Robin Hood trailer: http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf(thanks Dianne) Can’t wait for this. Meanwhile, I’m still learning to type…

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Posted on March 11, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Brainfail: digital version

Last Monday Lambda Literary went live. Tuesday, I rested. Wednesday, my computer got weird. Thursday, my hard drive failed. Utterly. I run…

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Posted on March 9, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The woman on the cover of The Blue Place

From: Penny Love Struck First of all I would like to say I love your work. I enjoy the way your descriptions…

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Posted on March 8, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Game of Thrones: HBO order full series

According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO has just greenlit a full ten-episode series based on George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones. All…

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Posted on March 4, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

War Machine, Time Machine (co-written with Kelley Eskridge)

The golden age of queer sf is 20. Or maybe it was the 1970s. Or perhaps it was in France. It’s all relative, like the notion of ‘queer’ itself.

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Posted on March 4, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in 1-essays

A fish with no name

I love this fish: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9631208&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 It’s not just what you say from Word Is Up on Vimeo. Why? Dunno, I just do….

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Posted on March 3, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

GalleyCat story on Lambda Literary

Woo-hoo! GalleyCat runs a story on Lambda Literary. (Many, many thanks to Jason Boog and particularly to Colleen Lindsay, proprietor of The…

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Posted on March 1, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

World-changing awesomeosity (and dancing words, and lesbian words–and gay and bi and trans words–and books and books and more books)

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9698245&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Lambda Literary Foundation from Word Is Up on Vimeo. Do I really need to say anything? Go look. We’ll talk later….

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Posted on March 1, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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