Nicola Griffith

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

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Month: June 2011

eReaders: 12% of us have one

Good news from Pew Research Center‘s survey (run from April 26 to May 22 among 2,277 adults, margin of error = +/-…

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Posted on June 30, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Port like cello music

One of the gifts we got for our anniversary was a bottle of 40 year-old port: We haven’t cracked it yet, but…

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Posted on June 29, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

More on Pixar’s ‘Brave’

Well, it sounds as though someone is fucking something up somewhere with Pixar’s first girl-lead movie, Brave. According to Wikipedia, Brenda Chapman…

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Posted on June 28, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Trailer: Brave, from Pixar

Oh, I want to see this right now. Now. Mist, menhirs, sword and ponies, monsters in the forest, a wee girl with…

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Posted on June 27, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Introducing the new perbs

Last year, I grew a bunch of herbs in pots on the back deck. I called them the perbs (as opposed to…

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Posted on June 27, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Clarion romance, 23 years on

Kelley and me, 1989 Today is the 23rd anniversary of the day I met Kelley. I told the story in my multi-media…

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Posted on June 26, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Cowboys and aliens trailer

Looks as though it might be a couple of hours of mindless summer fun. Arrives July 19th.

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Posted on June 25, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Now we can get married in New York

1993 Last night, in a dramatic floor vote that ended at 10:30 pm, the New York Senate voted 33/29 for same-sex marriage….

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Posted on June 25, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Money matters

Over at Sterling Editing we have our usual roundup of links of interest to emerging writers. I was struck by the Behler…

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Posted on June 24, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Herbs, kerbs, perbs, and honeysuckle

It’s a grey day here, a mizzle of drizzle. But the garden is lush. Next time the sun comes out, I’ll take…

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Posted on June 23, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild rises from the swamp

Hild is progressing nicely. The first draft started at 976 pages. About 40% of the way through the rewrite I’d lost 54…

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Posted on June 22, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Go vote for best f/sf novels eva at NPR

In case you haven’t heard, NPR is soliciting votes for the 100 best F/SF novels of all time. This would be a…

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Posted on June 21, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes

Now this is what I’d like to do with my estate–if, y’know, I had one. From the New York Times, the announcement…

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Posted on June 20, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The Clarion West Write-a-Thon begins

Kelley has started her forty-one days of writing for the Clarion West Write-a-Thon. Her first piece is up, prompted by the phrase,…

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Posted on June 19, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Queer rights at the U.N. – The needle moves

Yesterday the U.N. Human Rights Council voted in favor of a declaration, put forward by South Africa, that expressed “grave concern at…

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Posted on June 18, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Snippet of naked writing

Here’s a downpayment on the naked writing that will begin on Sunday in support of Kelley’s Clarion West Write-a-Thon. The moon is…

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Posted on June 17, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

X-Wing! Lego!

Guess what I’ll be doing for the next few days? It’s a present from a friend who understands the mind-melting frustration of…

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Posted on June 16, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Glottering: a new word

Yesterday I invented a new word, glottering–except, it turns out, it was invented long ago. Tuh. ‘The stork glottereth, this is a…

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Posted on June 15, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Science fiction by women for 4th graders?

A few days ago, a teacher (or librarian?) told me she’d like to be able to recommend some science fiction for her…

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Posted on June 14, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild update

I’m now just past halfway through my first-pass rewrite of Hild. I’ve already lost more than fifty pages. If you recall the…

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Posted on June 13, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Being ill, Sesame Street style

You’ve probably figured out by now that I’m ill with something other than MS. I have a variety of doctors (internist, rheumatologist,…

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Posted on June 12, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Awful sartorial choices of 1997

Holly Wade Matter recently posted these photos of me and Kelley, from 1997, on Facebook. Aargh!! All I can say is: our…

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Posted on June 11, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Smack-you-in-the-heart simplicity of joy

Kelley has an essay up at @U2 about her recent experience at a show here in Seattle. She’s been inundated with email…

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Posted on June 10, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Feminist SF conversations worth reading

Three interesting posts this weeks about feminist sf. I count all three women as my friends. I’m going to link and cut-and-paste…

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Posted on June 9, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The Blue Sword, Robin McKinley

Large chunks of the last couple of days have been the kind of days when I’d rather be somewhere else (health stuff;…

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Posted on June 9, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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