Nicola Griffith

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

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Gorgeous Kelley

A gorgeous new headshot of the gorgeous Kelley Eskridge

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Posted on November 19, 2022 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Win a pin and a free pony!

Pre-order SPEAR and send in proof in in the next 7 weeks and win not only this gorgeous enamel pin but a free pony! Well, okay, not a *real* pony…

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Posted on February 28, 2022 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Indivisible—except by 3 and 11

Indivisible—except by 3 and 11. Thirty-three years ago today I met Kelley. It was a scorching hot today—just like today…

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Posted on June 26, 2021 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Kitten Report #14: One year in the big wide world [photo, video]

Today Charlie and George are exactly one year old. They came to us as tiny rescue kitties, the only survivors of a litter of six, but today they are lords of their domain. And for their birthday we gave them a brief adventure in the great outdoors…

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Posted on May 13, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

30 years in the US

Today is the 30th anniversary of me moving to this country to live with Kelley.

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Posted on December 11, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Kitten Report #07: the chameleon twins [photos]

Charlie and George are now 5 months old. One minute they look very grown up, then, in the blink of an eye, they revert to the itty bitty new-to-the-world kitties we brought home two months ago.

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Posted on October 16, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Kitten Report #05: Visual rehab [photo and video]

Kitty report #5, in which Charlie gets home-made visual rehab and begins to adapt to his visual impairment

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Posted on September 28, 2019 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Herbs and Flowers

A few years ago I used to grow herbs in pots (pot herbs: perbs) and witter on about them at great length. Recently I decided to start growing things again, this time brightly-coloured and sweet-smelling to attract wildlife.

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Posted on June 29, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Nic is dead

My sister Helena would have been 52 today. She died when she was 24. She called me Nic.

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Posted on April 13, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Save the date, 14th April, London

Anyone who’s in London between 14 April and 27 May can see a photo of me taken in 1981 by Anita Corbin.

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Posted on April 8, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Morning after

We tend to celebrate most things, and we often do it with wine, almost always with splendid food, and every single time with conversation.

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Posted on February 15, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Four-word love story

In honour of Valentine’s Day: the short version of how meeting Kelley changed everything.

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Posted on February 14, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Yesterday morning was beautiful

My morning looked and sounded lovely. Perfect weekend.

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Posted on April 12, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild roundup #8

This will be the last links roundup, I think. Hild‘s been out six weeks and the pace of reviews and interviews is…

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Posted on December 22, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Lilacs in the mist

lilacs and honeysuckle We’ve had a run of magnificent weather here in Seattle. That’s scheduled to change tomorrow. But here’s a photo…

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Posted on May 11, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Marriage equality hearings at the Supreme Court

Tomorrow the Supreme Court hears arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Proposition 8 case regarding the legality of same-sex marriage in California. On…

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Posted on March 25, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The blush that means spring is coming

Well, something thinks it’s spring here, even if the weather gods are disagreeing rather sullenly. (Sky as low as a zinc pot-lid,…

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Posted on February 1, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

A photo of me

Generally only seriously weird people ask me for my photo. (Oh, and publicists…) Oddly, I’ve had two requests for photos in two…

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Posted on January 10, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

We’re back…

We left the country for a few days. We were invited up to Vancouver: missing the election seemed like a bonus. Not…

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Posted on November 11, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My new toy: a longseax

My new toy is a replica of the seax of Beagnoth, thought to be of ninth-century Anglo-Saxon origin. Though in my opinion (neither particularly…

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Posted on October 30, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Diptic: a nifty new photo app

I’ve discovered a nifty new app, Diptic, that let’s you snap pix and then build a composite: a mini document of the day….

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Posted on October 26, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

In which I play the ukulele

slinging on the old uke to show it to Kelley’s folks I’ve had my ukulele exactly one week. I’ve just recorded my…

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Posted on September 5, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Summer evening

Thanks to two neighbours–one witting, the other not so much–yesterday we had lavender creme brulée for dessert. And thanks to some miraculous…

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Posted on August 5, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Me and my father

He’s 86. He used to be half an inch taller than me. Now I’m a couple of inches taller than him. He…

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Posted on July 15, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Some women can see a hundred million colours

We saw this cloud right around noon on Wednesday. Those amazing colours lasted only a few minutes. It was basically a cloud-shaped…

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Posted on June 23, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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