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At the weekend I finished reading: Fever of the Bone, by Val McDermid. Val is a friend of mine. I’ve enjoyed many…
Read moreMonth: May 2011
Game of Thrones: You Win or You Die
I enjoyed this one thoroughly. Much of the exposition (so deadly in television) is now done. The writers are feeling more free…
Read moreCheesy lesbian vampire deliciousness
Oops, meant to post this last week: (via Autostraddle) This looks…well. Bad, in a good way. It would make a good drinking…
Read moreA shocking UK sf ‘favourites’ score: men 500, women 18
Yesterday, in the Guardian , Damien G. Walter asked readers to list their favourite sf. And they did. In a follow-up blog…
Read moreLambda Literary Award winners
The 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards were held last night in New York. Here are the winners. Lesbian FictionInferno (A Poet’s Novel),…
Read moreWe need their voices
Busy day today, so I thought I’d link to four things you might find interesting: Here’s a trailer for a film on…
Read moreTorchwood: Miracle Day trailer
Via Geeks of Doom Torchwood: Miracle Day: One day, nobody dies. All across the world, nobody dies. And then the next day,…
Read moreProblems with Blogger
I don’t know what’s going on but I’m having trouble with Blogger–I’m unable to comment on my own posts. I can only…
Read moreAmazon are serious
Yesterday, Richard Curtis broke the news that Amazon have hired Larry Kirshbaum, ex-CEO of Time Warner Publishing, and now (soon to be…
Read moreBoth kinds of music…
Inspired by a post on Dear Author (where I also stole this LOLcats pic) I’ve been thinking about reading tastes–specifically, how we…
Read moreWe touched the 70 and yearn for more
Yesterday in Seattle, for the first time in 2011, we touched 70 degrees. We touched it for one and a half minutes….
Read moreHow is publishing change treating you?
Via PW: Amazon just announced that it now sells more Kindle books than paper books: Since April 1, Amazon says it has…
Read moreBeautiful with blossoms
It’s been a beautiful day here in Seattle (yes, technically it’s night or–oops, morning now–as I type this). Blue, blue sky, birds…
Read moreI see…a 7!
An agony of anticipation (yeah, I’ve been spending way too much time with George R.R. Martin’s work): the seventies are coming! Bear…
Read moreMicrobial food action: Old World vs. New
photo: Vonda McIntyre, courtesy of Nancy Kress At lunch this weekend with a bunch o’ writers, Vonda McIntyre asked a question I…
Read moreMy life has just reached a satisfying full-circle
The other day I was complaining about not winning a chocolate typewriter or big chocolate ammonite for the Tiptree Prize back in…
Read moreMy Tiptree plate
This week I finally got my Tiptree prize back from the EMP|SFM, where it’s been on display for eight years. (I won…
Read moreLilac, with cat (and possibly fairies)
Here’s a picture of our new fence and what’s left of the lilac finally–finally!–blooming. (Not sure what those little light chevrons are:…
Read moreNeeded: a recipe for chive blossoms
Our chives are blossoming. I picked one and broke it open and, oh, the aromatic nectary goodness nearly made me pass out….
Read moreMy To Do list is breeding
I’m tired of no sun. Tired of seeing doctors (don’t worry, it’s just routine, and, y’know, tedious). Tired of having my veins…
Read moreLast night at Elliott Bay
The Lambda Literary Award finalists reading last night went well–great performances in front of a great crowd and then a dozen or…
Read moreColumbia Gorge
Kelley and I just got back from a trip to the Columbia Gorge. We’ve lived in Seattle for sixteen years and had…
Read moreSunday at Elliott Bay Book Company
This Sunday, May 8th, I’m hosting a reading of Lambda Literary Award finalists at Elliott Bay Book Company. The finalists are: Carol…
Read moreColombiana
A new Luc Besson film, out sometime in autumn: http://d.yimg.com/nl/movies/site/player.swf Thanks, Dianne I hadn’t heard of this before. Anyone else? While watching…
Read moreSF = al-Qaida = 7th Century = bloody strange
Read here an article in the Guardian about al-Qaida and science fiction: It has become synonymous with the terrorist attacks of September…
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Nicola Griffith 