Nicola Griffith

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

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Month: December 2020

2020 Adieu

Charlie and George bid farewell to 2020. The photo is from last year because the beasties are too busy murdering small things…

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Posted on December 31, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

2021: A Look Ahead

I’m wary of making predictions but here are my two sincere hopes for us all in 2021

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Posted on December 30, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

2020: An unusual year

I considered titling this post 2020: The Fuckening. A lot sucked—but it was also a profoundly liberating year for my work.

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Posted on December 28, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Holiday Greetings From Various Beasties

Holiday greetings from Charlie and George, plus some reindeer

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Posted on December 25, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Christmas Eve and flowers are still flowering

Here in Seattle we’ve had sleet and snow and frost and rain—so much rain. But astonishingly the flowers in pots on our decks are still valiantly flowering. An omen for 2021?

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Posted on December 24, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

New interview just up

A new interview just went up on The Fantasy Hive, in which I talk like a machine gun to Jonathan Thornton about my entire fiction career.

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Posted on December 23, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Solstice story

In honour of the Solstice I’ve created an illustrated PDF of a short story. A woman walks into a Seattle bar during a snowstorm and finds just what she’s looking for—or does she? Read by the fire with a glass of Armagnac, and dream of snow…

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Posted on December 21, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Spear—my short fantasy novel

I’ve written a new book: a short fantasy novel (my first!): Spear. It’s like Hild but with magic—the wild magic of the landscape, yes, the magic of love and the human heart, absolutely, but also the sword-swinging, monster-killing magic of myth and demigods…

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Posted on December 16, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Love and isolation: 31 years ago

I moved to the US to be with Kelley exactly 31 years ago. Life then felt weirdly similar to pandemic life today.

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Posted on December 11, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Signed personalised books for the holidays

I’m teaming up again with Phinney Books, on Greenwood Avenue, Seattle, to bring you signed, personalised books for the holidays.

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Posted on December 9, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Manatee mind

Pain meds turn my mind grey and floaty, like a manatee. No wonder manatees are not renowned for their writing.

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Posted on December 7, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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