Nicola Griffith

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Month: October 2010

"Cheesewire bikini exposed"

“Cheesewire bikini exposed.” Nope, I don’t know what that means, either, but it’s one of the search terms people used this month…

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Posted on October 31, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Gorgeous autumn–colours colour colours!

Wednesday and Friday were eye-poppingly vibrant days here in Seattle. My friend, professional photographer Jennifer Durham, took some pictures of Green Lake…

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Posted on October 30, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Me with an updo, and it wasn’t even Halloween

I’ve been thinking about clothes lately, and was prompted the other day to search for a particular photograph. I found it, eventually…

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Posted on October 29, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Get yourself an education, for free

Wow, I’ve just read over on Lisa Gold‘s blog that the Paris Review has just made available 57 years-worth of author interviews….

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Posted on October 28, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

If plots had smartphones…

Yesterday, I was thinking about the Aud novels, about what it would take to republish them. (They’re all in print in some…

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Posted on October 27, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Update: Hild, health, happiness

I’m still very tired, but that’s about what I expected at this stage. The best thing I can report is that nothing…

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Posted on October 26, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

What we talk about when we talk about books

Growing up, my family never talked about books. I’m guessing my first book discussions were with a librarian when I was eight…

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Posted on October 25, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Defining genres

@Literaticat has posted a list of genre definitions. Perhaps the most useful paragraph for beginners is this one (emphasis/shouting hers): PLEASE NOTE:…

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Posted on October 23, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

A beautiful painting

Alisha Baker (we have four of her paintings) has just posted her latest work, a gorgeous moment-as-stained-glass-window painting that captures the glow…

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Posted on October 22, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The niftiest font eva

I just made my own font, ngbyhand, the niftiest font eva: Only it doesn’t have much in the way of punctuation, just…

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Posted on October 21, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Sex, again

In the Guardian, they’re talking about literary sex. Most of the writers in the article seem to agree with Martin Amis that:…

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Posted on October 20, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Smart people drink more

From Psychology Today, data to suggest that smart people drink more: The following graph shows the association between childhood intelligence (grouped into…

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Posted on October 19, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Editor, stat!

Editor, stat! (Definitely not stet.) Yesterday afternoon, too tired to do anything else, I dragged a pile of magazines over to the…

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Posted on October 18, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Low key ‘r’ us

The last couple of weeks have been…interesting. Good in many ways–the weather, the company, some publishing stuff I’ll talk about when I…

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Posted on October 17, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Winter is coming…

Morning, Friday 15th October. Hard blue sky, a nip in the air, sun on the top of the trees. A fine day…

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Posted on October 16, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Don’t mention the money

Babbage has an interesting post about the recent New York Tech Meetup and how it has its own “peculiar etiquette, which is…

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Posted on October 15, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Thoughtful discussion of women and SF–add your voice

Over at Torque Control there’s a thoughtful post on gender and SF, including–yay!–A Plan. Go play, take part. Help stamp out Girl…

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Posted on October 14, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Writers: if you can’t give money, give a story

Yesterday, I talked about the challenge grant to the Lambda Literary Foundation by Emerging Voices fiction fellow Chuck Forester. If you have…

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Posted on October 13, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Help save queer lives. Give, and it will be doubled.

If you give $25 or more to the Lambda Literary Foundation right now, your gift will be matched, dollar for dollar, by…

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Posted on October 12, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My coming out story

Today is Coming Out day (in the US, tomorrow in the UK). I’ve been out, very out, since I was sixteen. I…

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Posted on October 11, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Farewell to the colours of summer

A melancholy, rainy day here in Seattle. But briefly this afternoon the clouds thinned to gauze and the garden blazed. I took…

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Posted on October 10, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Wee pictures by…me

I was running a search for something on old Ask Nicola Q&As and came across this partial answer to something, including a…

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Posted on October 9, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Books are journeys

I love books. I love my Kindle–I’ve read more novels per month in the last two years than I did before I…

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Posted on October 8, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Living in a Fahrenheit 451 world

Pearls Before Swine is never dumb. And its brand of humour appeals to me. Cartman, Jayne, Rat: role models!

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Posted on October 7, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hammer House of Horror and…Jeanette Winterson!

Kelley just pointed this out to me. As she says, “Wow, this is all kinds of…well, you’ll see!” From Deadline Hollywood: The…

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Posted on October 6, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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