Nicola Griffith

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

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Month: June 2014

Three weeks three days

Just got back from Washington DC. So no mega-post today. But here’s a picture of the UK hardback and paperback of Hild,…

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Posted on June 30, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

All the different art of “Cold Wind”

At the end of last summer—mid-August—I unexpectedly wrote a short story, “Cold Wind.” It was triggered by heat and brine and music…

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Posted on June 26, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Wife

Last year, two and half months before the publication of Hild, I emailed my editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux: “I hope it’s…

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Posted on June 23, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild paperback cover

This is what the Hild paperback (out October 28 from Picador) will look like. What do you think?

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Posted on June 14, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Definition of hægtes

From: Robin   I am reading Hild and I have not been able to discover the definition of “haegtes.” I read on my…

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Posted on June 13, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Game of Thrones theme tune if it were from New Orleans

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Posted on June 12, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Coming soon, redux

The top four vote getters for my list of possible future blog posts are, in order: dog-whistle flap copy branding for writers…

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Posted on June 12, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Guinness does NOT contain maize/corn

Three weeks ago, after reading/hearing a disturbing rumour that Guinness uses high-fructose corn syrup, I wrote to Guinness directly to ask them…

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Posted on June 11, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Walking away from it all, redux

From: Gregory You once wrote “I constantly try to live up to my ideal of myself as a person and a writer (if…

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Posted on June 10, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Corn does not belong in beer [ETA: This is wrong]

Not long ago I found out read that my go-to all-purpose draft beer, Guinness, contains high-fructose corn syrup. Corn (or maize as…

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Posted on June 8, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

In which I recommend The Blue Sword: YA for all of us

After I’d finished my interview on To the Best of Our Knowledge about Hild and had just pushed back my chair to go,…

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Posted on June 7, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Links to all Hild reviews, interviews, and essays

Now up, pages on: most of the last six months’ Hild reviews Hild interviews Hild miscellany (mostly essays I’ve written about Hild–the…

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Posted on June 7, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Coming soon…

Now that I’ve drawn a line under banging the Hild drum (at least until other publicity efforts gear up) I’m free to…

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Posted on June 5, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Final Hild links roundup

For those who are counting, this is links roundup #20. I’ve put all twenty in one place. I’m also assembling humongous roundups…

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Posted on June 4, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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