Nicola Griffith on Starship Sofa
On the newest episode of Starship Sofa, my good friend Nicola Griffith has the featured fiction piece. Her story “It Takes Two” from the anthology Eclipse 3 is the bulk of the episode. This novelette was also selected for The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy …
Tags: nicola griffith, podcasting, starship sofaNarrative Grammar
My friend Nicola has a great post today on narrative grammar at her editing site. As I write my NaNoWriMo novel I struggle with this every single paragraph. I’m not an experienced fiction writer so I’m feeling my way through. I have been doing my best to follow some of these advice before reading …
Tags: nanowrimo, nicola griffith, sterling editingNaNoWriMo Second Draft Special
My friends Kelley Eskridge and Nicola Griffith are writers who between them have written a significant chunk of my favorite books of the last twenty years. Earlier this year, before I decided to attempt NaNoWriMo and before they formed their agency, I had already reached out to them as first readers to help me …
Tags: kelley eskridge, nanowrimo, nicola griffith, sterling editingSterling Editing
I frequently blog about my friends Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge because not only do I love them very much but they are both ridiculously talented. I love all their writing, and now they have a new venture in the world. They’ve formed Sterling Editing, a service for editing, mentoring and coaching writers. These …
Tags: kelley eskridge, nicola griffith, sterling editingThe One Wordle I’ll Ever Create
I’m familiar with cloud type graphics. I have a tag cloud in the sidebar of this blog and I even implemented a tag cloud for AmigoFish. It’s not like the basic idea is unfamiliar to me, but I hadn’t previously used Wordle for doing it with arbitrary chunks of text. Recently it …
Tags: amigofish, kelley eskridge, nicola griffith, wordleEGC Clambake for August 19, 2008 – “Fourth Anniversary, Big Whoop”
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 19, 2008. I play a song from Rocket City Riot and then try and fail to read some user mail; I play a song by the Harvey Girls; I discuss this being the fourth anniversary of this podcast, why I started doing …
Tags: glasseye, harveygirls, kelley eskridge, michaelgeoghegan, nicola griffith, rocket city riotNicola Wins
As I predicted she would the other day, Nicola Griffith won the Lammy award. Way to go!
Tags: nicola griffithNicola and Kelley Tidbits
I occasionally blog about my friends Nicola and Kelley. I realized in my list of things to blog about I had several related to them, so I thought I’d collect them together.
1. Both of them urge people to call the California governor’s office and take the phone poll about whether or not you approve …
Nicola Griffith on the Taser Panacea
My dear friend Nicola Griffith has a post up on the Huffington Post about women, tasers and self-defense. Her basic point is not unlike that of much of Bruce Schneier’s writing – tools that are less effective than you think and that lead to a false sense of security are worse than no tools …
Tags: hu, nicola griffithNicola Griffith’s New Novel Blog
My dear friend Nicola Griffith is performing her own interesting blogospheric experiment. She is writing a novel about Hild of Whitby and to aid in her research she has started a research blog about it. I think this is a smart move. By sharing what she learns, she attracts whatever community there is about …
Tags: hildofwhitby, nicola griffithMy Friends Write Books
Two of my best friends in the world are a couple, both are writers and both of them have brand new books out now or very soon. Kelley Eskridge has her story collection Dangerous Space out shortly from Aqueduct Press. It’s not too soon to put in your order. Her debut novel Solitaire was …
Tags: kelley eskridge, nicola griffithNicola Griffith on NPR
More about my friend Nicola Griffith. This weekend she was on The Best of our Knowledge. It actually airs in my area but I missed it live on the radio (which is not uncommon.) Apparently they have a podcast feed which means that you can get an MP3 of the show, rather than the …
Tags: nicola griffithAmmonite’s Map of Jeep
For those of you who are fans of my dear friend Nicola Griffith, here is something cool. She’s posted her map of the planet Jeep from the novel Ammonite. It’s a great book, and she’s a great writer. Check it out!
Tags: nicola griffithBookmark Now
I watched the video of Eric Rice interviewing Kevin Smokler a while ago about Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times. What I didn’t realize at that time was that two of my dear friends, Kelley Eskridge and Nicola Griffith, have an essay in the book. Check it out. I thought the book sounded interesting …
Tags: ericrice, kelley eskridge, kevinsmokler, nicola griffith