Nicola Griffith
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 15 2019 - I Forget Why We Are Terrible
In this episode, I play a song from the Gentle Readers; I get mentioned on the Kindle Chronicles; I don't understand how cards work on Patreon; leaving communication vacuums leads to fiasco; why I am dropping Patreon support for some campaigns; bingeing is my new TV norm and the season is my new...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 1 2017 - People>Places, Career>Job
In this episode, I start out with a song from the new Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie album; I discuss why I want to love this album better; I care more about people than places; this is my summer of doing whatever I want; we are having a mini-reunion with our cousins this summer; I note the...
read articleDarkness - Barbarians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR35pRz7JQ8 Yesterday I listened to Michael Butler do a track by track of the new Darkness album Last of Our Kind. I liked it, I like the Darkness in general. This album is something special though. It is somewhere between a theme album and a rock opera. What do you...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Bonus Podcast for March 17 2014 - Discussing Game of Thrones
In this BONUS episode, I mostly discuss my experiences with the Song of Ice and Fire novel series and my recent viewings of the beginnings of the Game of Thrones television series. In there is a little discussion of my new lavalier microphone, comic book retailing and other good bits. Here is the...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 5, 2013 - "DDOP Day 6: Star Ratings"
This time out, I talk about star ratings and trying to be reasonable with them; the weird differences in cultures across rating sites; and the dilemma of rating books written by people you know. Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 5, 2014 You can subscribe...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 13, 2013 - "Changes and Fear"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, November 13, 2013. I discuss my life changes; I talk about Android and installing FourSquare and Saga on my phone; I talk about the YouTube comment controversy; I recommend works by Nicola Griffith and Dave Hill and toodle out...
read articleNicola 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...
read articleNarrative 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...
read articleNaNoWriMo 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...
read articleSterling 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...
read articleThe 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 captured the...
read articleEGC 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 this show and why I continue...
read articleNicola Wins
As I predicted she would the other day, Nicola Griffith won the Lammy award. Way to...
read articleNicola 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...
read articleNicola 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 at all...
read articleNicola 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...
read articleMy 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 one of my...
read articleNicola 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 craptacular...
read articleAmmonite'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...
read articleBookmark 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...
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