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Month: May 2022

Spear in New York Times and Beyond the Trope

Spear updates: NYTBR review, Beyond the Trope podcast, promises for the future…

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Posted on May 31, 2022 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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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Posted on May 23, 2022 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
Close-up of old manual typewriter with a document being typed: Terms of Service

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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Posted on May 20, 2022 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Competition winners!

We have one grand winner and one runner-up who guessed the top two most-used adjectives in early reviews of SPEAR…

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Posted on May 9, 2022 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Last 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:

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Posted on May 6, 2022 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Spear 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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Posted on May 4, 2022 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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Top 15 posts of 2021

Here are the most popular posts of 2021.

  1. Men Are Afraid Women Will Laugh at Them
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  3. Spear
  4. Hild
  5. Spear Cover Reveal
  6. Fuck Off Into the Sun: I’m Done Being Excluded
  7. A List of Bookshops in the UK
  8. Books About Women Don’t Win Big Awards: Some Data
  9. Menewood!!
  10. Kitten Report #11: Seven Months Old Today
  11. So Lucky
  12. Lame is So Gay
  13. Kitties!
  14. About the Real Hild
  15. Ammonite

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