Nicola Griffith

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

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Month: January 2011

The difference between oregano and marjoram

The kerbs keeps growing. The oregano and marjoram have tangled up with each other and…fused. And, honestly, I just can’t tell the…

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Posted on January 30, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Beautiful sentences

Included in this week’s links for writers post over at Sterling Editing, is an article by Adam Haslett about beautiful sentences. Sentences…

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Posted on January 29, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Method writing and Hild tidbits

I spent yesterday afternoon in the seventh century with a teenaged Hild who has just been spurned by her first love, who…

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Posted on January 28, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Aud #4?

I got this (and several others like it) last week: hi my name is Lindsay and love love your books and i…

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Posted on January 27, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Readers are customers, not the enemy

From Pat Holt, on Holt Uncensored, comes a blog post which begins with the tale of a rather boorish couple who act…

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Posted on January 26, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Single malt whiskey chocolates–in honour of Robert Burns

Today is the 252nd anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. People all over the world will be reciting his poetry, eating…

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Posted on January 25, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Anonymous was a woman

Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, explains why Virginia Woolf is right: I would venture to guess that Anon,who…

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Posted on January 24, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Kerbian explosion

The kerbs have been feeding us for three weeks now. As you can see, harvesting them just encourages their insane growth. The…

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Posted on January 23, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My ‘risk intelligence’ is high, baby. How about yours?

Via Cassandra, I learnt about the Point Project. According to their website, the Point Project: is a project to gather information about…

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Posted on January 23, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Don’t interrupt when I’m reading a book

Today is for linkage: Malinda Lo and Cindy Pon have had a fabulous idea: Diversity in YA, or DIYA, a website and…

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Posted on January 21, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Updating science fiction for republication

I read something over at Dear Author that got me thinking: I was reading the Jennifer Greene books which are being re-released…

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Posted on January 20, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The malevolence of inanimate objects

It’s been an odd few days at the Eskridge-Griffith household. It began with Kelley getting kicked in the head at her gym….

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Posted on January 19, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

I lied! Look at this…

http://www.hbo.com/bin/hboPlayerV2u.swf?vid=1154893 I think I might have to pony up for HBO after all. Gaaargh!!

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Posted on January 17, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Chewed on by monsters

No blog today. Being chewed on by deadline monsters. Auuuargh….

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Posted on January 17, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Interesting new movie trailer: Love

http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf (thanks, Dianne) From FirstShowing.net: After losing contact with Earth, astronaut Lee Miller (Gunner Wright) becomes stranded in orbit aboard the Space…

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Posted on January 16, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The cat who yelled, again

Chow Mane is back. She’s learnt to show up at lunchtime, rain or shine, and yell. I can hear her through the…

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Posted on January 15, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My life as the tagline to a torrid potboiler

I got a commercial email the other day advertising some epical weretiger (I think) romance novel called The Tiger’s Curse. The tagline…

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Posted on January 14, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Breakage

Yesterday was a day of breakage. We woke up to snow, and a ravaged curly willow. The tree had survived the Great…

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Posted on January 13, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

SF/F Translation Award draw — great prizes

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards are for works of speculative fiction translated into English from other languages. It’s a small…

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Posted on January 12, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Kelley’s beautiful novel, Solitaire, available now

Kelley’s novel, Solitaire, has just been reissued by Small Beer Press. The cover is gorgeous. In fact, the whole package is supremely…

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Posted on January 11, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

PW: ‘lame’ shouldn’t be an insult

This headline from Publishers Weekly is not acceptable: Using ‘lame’ as a derogatory term is, to me, as insulting as saying it’s…

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Posted on January 10, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Dolphins and snow in Puget Sound

NASA image via Wikipedia I woke up this morning to snow. Just a pretty dusting but, still: snow. Yet last week the…

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Posted on January 10, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Kerb explosion

It was just five weeks ago that we started our kitchen bio experiment of growing herbs hydroponically: the kitchen herbs a/k/a the…

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Posted on January 9, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

How ammonites changed the world

Interesting paper in Science: The Role of Ammonites in the Mesozoic Marine Food Web Revealed by Jaw Preservation, subtitled: “How they revolutionized…

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Posted on January 8, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Solitaire, Sterling, and YA/MG Hugo?

Three snippets of linkage for you today. A lovely review by John Mesjack up at My 3 Books of Kelley’s Solitaire. “I…

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Posted on January 7, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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