Video of Hild reading and Q&A
The Hild audiobook came out yesterday. In celebration, here are two short videos taken from the Hugo House gig in Seattle last…
Read moreThe Hild audiobook came out yesterday. In celebration, here are two short videos taken from the Hugo House gig in Seattle last…
Read moreIf you’re going to be in Seattle the night of Tuesday December 10, please join me for a fantabulous evening in the…
Read moreJust three quick proofs for now, taken by the incomparable Jennifer Durham. We’ve got more photos, and some splendid video from Kurt…
Read moreI’ll be doing the very first public reading of Hild, Thursday May 30th, 7 pm, at McNally Jackson Books. It’ll be a…
Read moreAt the end of December the Guardian ran a story about reading and empathy: Psychologists from Washington University used brain scans to…
Read moreI recently did a one-hour interview for BBC Radio 4 about how science fiction uses sex and gender to tell stories about…
Read moreI’m nearly two-thirds of the way through reading Hild. Parts of it most definitely rock the thunderdome. Parts of it, well, let’s…
Read morePhoto taken with crapcam. It turns out that 976 pages is nearly 11cm (4.5 in) high. I don’t have a scale, so…
Read moreToday is Coming Out day (in the US, tomorrow in the UK). I’ve been out, very out, since I was sixteen. I…
Read moreI love books. I love my Kindle–I’ve read more novels per month in the last two years than I did before I…
Read moreHere’s video of me reading from Slow River last month at the LLF Emerging Voices Writers’ Retreat in Los Angeles, where I…
Read moreIt’s a lovely sunny day here. Perfect. Yesterday it rained. All day. Hard. Tomorrow it will be too hot. By the weekend…
Read moreJust got this. It looks like a great opportunity for queer writers of all stripes and persuasions to meet, drink some free…
Read moreI read an article in the Guardian a couple of days ago, which I’ve been pondering on and off since: “[A]s more…
Read moreAn article in the Telegraph about how reading reduces stress–even six minutes can be enough to reduce the stress levels by more…
Read moreAfter a reader (thanks, Jennifer) reminded me, in a comment to “advice for girls,” that reading is pretty damn important I was…
Read moreBela Lugosi as Dracula (1931). Bram Stoker’s character embodied the worst excesses of aristocratic dominance. Photograph: Kobal According to an article in…
Read moreSo I learnt something this week: doing a reading with a hangover is not easy. Still, for you, dear reader, I struggled…
Read moreOn November 10th, a fascinating experiment in interactive online reading will begin. In the words of Bob Stein, of the Institute for…
Read moreHere are two videos of me reading at Hugo House from my memoir, And Now We Are Going to Have a Party….
Read moreFrom: Kai Jones I have a question: can I buy you a drink if we’re ever colocated? Just as a thank you…
Read moreFor those of you who will be in or near Seattle on Tuesday, 6th May, I’ll be doing a reading at Hugo…
Read moreFrom: Jean R “…has anyone reading this ever done that?” you asked in response to an Ask Nicola query. Hello Nicola, well…
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