Nicola Griffith

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

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Menewood progress

When is Menewood coming out? I discuss timing and talk about a juicy post going up on Gemæcce

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Posted on February 12, 2021 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

MENEWOOD!!

I have finished the first draft of MENEWOOD and it is huge! Huge and awesome! Awesome and exciting!

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Posted on November 17, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Why I’m going to be saying No a lot

For the rest of this year and all of next I’m turning down professional invitations of every kind. I have work to do.

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Posted on November 20, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

A writing update: Hild, Aud, Ammonite and more

New of Hild, Aud, Ammonite and more

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Posted on November 18, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Writing space, September 2016

On Monday Vulpes Libris republished a slightly edited piece about my writing space that I first published here five years ago. Here’s an updated look at that space.

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Posted on September 23, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild cat pictures and fan art

I’m hard at work on Menewood, aka Hild II. So here are a bunch of cat pictures, that is, cats with Hild, followed by some Hild fan art. Some of these you will have seen before, some are new.

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Posted on June 3, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

2016

Every New Year’s Eve Kelley and I do the same thing: sit before the fire with Champagne while we eat delicious things and talk. We talk about the year that’s passed and the year to come…

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Posted on January 1, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My Readercon schedule

I’m Guest of Honour at Readercon, July 9 – 12. Here’s my schedule of events. Consider three in particular…

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Posted on June 30, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Pink Floyd is embedded in my work

When I was ten or eleven my soon-to-be brother-in-law gave me his old Phillips’ cassette recorder and tapes of Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma,…

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Posted on May 23, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Last chance to be a character in HILD II

For $250 I will name a character after you in the second Hild novel, Menewood. The money will go towards Stories for Chip, a literary tribute to Samuel R. Delany.

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Posted on April 21, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The opening of Menewood? Tomorrow!

I might read from the beginning of Hild II when I’m at Queen Anne Books with Patricia Bracewell tomorrow. Show up and see: Thursday 16th April, 7 pm.

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Posted on April 15, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The ending of Hild: not a romance

* This post contains spoilers for Hild and Hild II * From: Diane My book club just had a discussion about Hild. It…

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Posted on January 29, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Want to be a character in HILD II?

As I said yesterday, I’m going to be Guest of Honour at this year’s Readercon, July 9-12, Burlington MA. If you donate $250 to…

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Posted on January 27, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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Top 15 posts of 2020

Here are the most popular posts of 2020.

  1. Hild
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  3. MENEWOOD!!
  4. Covid-19: Numbers Game
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  6. Covid-19: Zones of control
  7. The Aud books
  8. Good books for hard times
  9. So Lucky
  10. Lame is so gay
  11. Ammonite
  12. Fries Test for disabled characters in fiction
  13. Covid-19: Now what?
  14. Kitties!
  15. 2019-nCoV: The new coronavirus

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