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

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Where to buy HILD

Hild is available all over the English-speaking world. If you’d like the physical book from a physical store there’s a lot of choice. If…

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Posted on March 7, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The business of writing: a one-day workshop December 2

Publishing is in the throes of huge change and it’s hard to keep up with the choices available for writers–of any level…

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Posted on November 13, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Publishing-related tidbits and some wild guesses

I’m still catching up on news that might be of interest from the last ten days or so. Today: publishing. Last week,…

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Posted on August 27, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Waterstones showrooming for Amazon

A few months ago I talked about the notion of showrooming, in which customers walk into a bricks-and-mortar retailer establishment, play with/read the…

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Posted on May 22, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

New Ammonite cover

Coming from Gollancz in September as part of the SF Masterworks series: You can pre-order in the UK here. Slow River will…

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Posted on April 9, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Amazon’s showroom coming soon?

It looks as though my prediction of Amazon’s showroom is about to come true. Michael Kozlowski at Good-E-Reader has the skinny: Amazon…

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Posted on February 7, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

GAFA fight!

Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (GAFA) between them pretty much rule consumer tech world. (You can find a good analysis of the…

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Posted on January 4, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Publishers: pay writers more, it’s good for you

Mike Shatzkin has written another thought-provoking post about the publishing industry. (If the business interests you, subscribe to his feed; his perspective…

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Posted on December 13, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Bookselling: We are showroom dummies

Yesterday, AllThingsD discussed Amazon’s latest move: Amazon is offering consumers up to $5 off on purchases if they compare prices using the…

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Posted on December 7, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Amazon are serious

Yesterday, Richard Curtis broke the news that Amazon have hired Larry Kirshbaum, ex-CEO of Time Warner Publishing, and now (soon to be…

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Posted on May 23, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Slow River reprint

For those of you who have been waiting a week or so for Slow River to ship from Amazon, I’ve been assured…

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Posted on April 6, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Go listen: a good primer on current change in publishing

I don’t listen to podcasts much because almost everything I do is writing- or reading-related and listening interferes with that. But yesterday,…

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Posted on March 2, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

What’s going on in St. Louis, MO?

I finally got around to looking at Author Central today. It turns out that in the week of January 17-23, I sold…

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Posted on February 10, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Readers are customers, not the enemy

From Pat Holt, on Holt Uncensored, comes a blog post which begins with the tale of a rather boorish couple who act…

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Posted on January 26, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Updating science fiction for republication

I read something over at Dear Author that got me thinking: I was reading the Jennifer Greene books which are being re-released…

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Posted on January 20, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

iPad guided tours–check out iBooks

Some links relating to Apple’s book plans. Start with this nifty wee guided tour of iBooks (you’ll have to pick iBooks out…

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Posted on March 31, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

If I were a publisher

If I were a publisher, I think I would be taking the same non-committal approach to ebook pricing as Random House. According…

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Posted on February 12, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

guess who gets crushed in Wal-Mart vs. Amazon?

Amazon and Wal-Mart are fighting a book-price war. Walmart cut the price of their new hardcovers (blockbusters by Stephen King, John Grisham…

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Posted on October 17, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Barnes & Noble, ebooks competitor–not

For those who don’t follow publishing industry news, there’s been a lot of noise recently about Barnes & Noble’s new ebook store….

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Posted on July 22, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

this blog now available on Kindle

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Posted on May 17, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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