Broken toe
I’ve broken my toe. It’s a lovely shade of blue and purple–periwinkle, perhaps. So I’m even more gimpy than usual and very…
Read moreMonth: June 2010
The literary agent, role and payment, plus more Clarion photos
There’s an interesting conversation going on at the moment about the role of the literary agent and how they could/should get paid….
Read moreThe Alisha Baker room in our house
We recently became the proud owners of “The Girls,” an Alisha Baker painting. The Girls, Alisha Baker Alisha has a couple of…
Read morePerb update
My Perbs (personal herbs, growing in pots on my back deck) are now two weeks old. Time for some gratuitous photo updates….
Read moreCelebrating by losing in public!
Yes, I know you’ve seen this photo a zillion times but I like it. It’s how we looked Back in the Day….
Read moreLinks for writers
Over at Sterling Editing we have our usual weekly list of links for writers. There are tips on writing a difficult protagonist…
Read moreA lovely review of Ammonite
I’m busy today, but smiling. Publishing life is going well (more on that another time). Here’s part of what’s made me smile:…
Read moreClarion West Write-a-thon
From Kelley’s blog: The Clarion West Writers Workshop has begun, and the Write-a-thon is in progress! We have 79 writers signed up,…
Read moreI want this a lot
I want the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. I already own the 20-volume OED and I can’t tell you how…
Read moreHilary Mantel wins Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction
I love prizes like this: short lists provide me with excellent reading choices. I’ve read Wolf Hall already, of course–and, yes, it’s…
Read moreGrey and rainy: happy Father’s Day!
Tomorrow it’s the summer solstice. Seattle still hasn’t hit 75° this year. Today it’s grey, with the promise of rain, which is…
Read moreFreedom
Yesterday I downloaded a piece of $10 software that will change my life. It’s called Freedom: Freedom is a simple productivity application…
Read moreLinks for writers
Today is a nothing-but-work day, so instead of writing something here I’m going to point you to our post at Sterling Editing…
Read morePimped-out bee
On Tuesday afternoon, during a brief break in the clouds (sun! I saw it!), I sat outside on the deck to contemplate…
Read moreThe blood jet is poetry…
The Guardian has a piece pondering whether adversity and unhappiness are the font of art. The poet John Berryman once told an…
Read moreExpanded voter packet for Hugos
The lovely people at AussieCon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention (September 2nd – 6th, 2010 – Melbourne, Australia), have announced…
Read moreNovelists: how young is ‘young’?
In the New York Times, Sam Tanenhaus ponders the notion that the best fiction is written by people (he mostly talks about…
Read morePerbs and Ferbs
As of yesterday, my new project is the growing of herbs. I’ve started planting them in pots on the back deck. So…
Read moreSame sex marriage, and other linkage
The Althingi, Iceland’s parliament, has just voted unanimously for same-sex marriage. Unanimously. This makes me happy. In case you’ve forgotten, Iceland is…
Read moreStrangely heartwarming
The first bazillion times Google Alerts brought me the latest ‘Women in SF Meme‘ link I got cross: so many people who’d…
Read moreA message to Americans
US citizens seem to be fond of using tea symbolically in their political activism. But many of you don’t know how to…
Read moreAnyone read The Lacuna?
Photograph: John McDonnell/Washington Post/Getty Images Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna has just won the Orange Prize. I used to love Kingsolver’s work (The…
Read moreAwards, Woolf, momentous events and useless facts
At some point soon I’ll start talking about of-the-moment stuff, but a lot happened out In The World while I was away…
Read moreWhile I was gone…
After a lovely 3-week break full of unplugged goodness, I’m back. It was delicious. I went out for lunches and dinners and…
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Nicola Griffith 