Spear in New York Times and Beyond the Trope
Spear updates: NYTBR review, Beyond the Trope podcast, promises for the future…
Read moreMonth: May 2022
History and historicity, historiography and legend
How can you make a realistic novel set in the past feel like magic—and a book stuffed with magic and myth feel realistic? And why can that be a problem for historical fiction writers?
Funny you should ask: I just wrote a whole essay about that for Historia Magazine. Go take a look. Oh, and there’s a clue in the image description…
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Want me to blurb your book? Here are the conditions
Here are my new conditions for anyone wanting me to blurb their book.
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Competition winners!
We have one grand winner and one runner-up who guessed the top two most-used adjectives in early reviews of SPEAR…
Read moreLast chance to enter the Spear adjective competition: Clue #16
The final clue in the guess-the-review-adjective for SPEAR competition, this time from a blurb by
Maria Dahvana Headley
Get your best guess in before noon Pacific time tomorrow. Rules, prizes, and how to enter:
Read moreSpear adjective competition: Clue #15
Clue #15 in the guess-the-review-adjective competition for SPEAR prizes, this time a quote from a review in Chicago Review of Books by Jake Casella Brookins. No purchase necessary! Open to anyone in the world!
Rules and how to enter:
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Nicola Griffith 