Nicolaz

Nicolaz, 14 days ago to random

Want to hear about the love poetry of lesbian nuns? Drink mead? Listen to gorgeous medieval music or try your hand at some Old English riddles? This event is for you! Tuesday, 11 June, 7:30 pm. Town Hall Seattle. Tickets $5-10. Free if under 22.

http://nicolagriffith.com/2024/05/25/the-queer-medieval-town-hall-seattle-11-june/

Nicolaz, 1 month ago to random

👀 📢 MENEWOOD on sale for $3.99 on all US ebook platforms! I don't know when the promotion started and I don't know how long it'll run but this is the lowest price ever.

You can read more about the book here or just read these luscious quotes 😊

https://nicolagriffith.com/books/menewood-coming-october-3-2023/

Nicolaz, 3 months ago to random

On Wednesday, 28 February, 9:00 AM PT/5:00 PM UK, I’m doing an event for Westminster Libraries, London. In “Writing the Anglo-Saxons” I’ll be discussing writing historical fiction set in Early Medieval Britain with Kate Macdonald. Registration is free!

http://nicolagriffith.com/2024/02/21/writing-the-anglo-saxons-wednesday-28-february-virtual/

Nicolaz, 5 months ago to random

This year saw the highest number of visitors to my blog for five years. Here are the Top 10 new posts and the Top 15 overall. Plus an explanation of why blogging beats newsletters—and, of course, why all creators should own their own platform.

http://nicolagriffith.com/2023/12/20/2023-blog-stats/

Nicolaz, 5 months ago to random

On Sunday, 1pm PST, I'm doing my very first YouTube Livestream, drinking beer and enthusing with Raf Blutaxt about all things Hild and Menewood. Come enjoy the chaos!

http://nicolagriffith.com/2023/12/16/youtube-livestream-sunday-1pm-pst/

Nicolaz, 6 months ago to random

I just—for the umptieth time—got yet another message from a reader complaining about me using the word 'corn' in HILD and MENEWOOD and explaining kindly that it didn't reach Britain until sometime after Columbus and then the Spanish visited North America. I might have to start including a line in the Author's Note: 'Corn' is the generic term for a community's most important grain. UK 'corn' = wheat. US 'corn' = maize. I'm guessing pre-Rome Britons' 'corn' was barley.

Nicolaz, 6 months ago to random

Menewood is an epic literary speculative novel of character set 1400 years ago and stuffed with people of every persuasion. If you want to nominate it for an award, any award, you have my blessing. I won't argue.

http://nicolagriffith.com/2023/11/25/menewood-awards-eligibility/

Nicolaz, 6 months ago to random

A couple of weeks ago I talked to Misha Grifka Wander about MENEWOOD for Ancillary Review of Books. Here are links to a short review and long interview.

http://nicolagriffith.com/2023/11/14/ancillary-review-of-books-on-menewood/

Nicolaz, 7 months ago to random

The second novel about Hild of Whitby MENEWOOD was ublished 3 October. It's a big book. Why? And what's in it? And how come it's so very beautiful?

http://gemaecce.com/2023/10/21/menewood-is-out-now/

Nicolaz, 8 months ago to random

Book launch day is a bit like waiting in the wings to go on stage for the biggest show of your life and not knowing what's on the other side of the curtain: full house and rapturous applause, or ringing silence...

http://nicolagriffith.com/2023/10/03/a-banger-of-a-beginning-for-menewood/

Nicolaz, 8 months ago to random

MENEWOOD is published tomorrow. It's a book to read by the fire while outside the wind howls and you feel glad to be alive...

http://nicolagriffith.com/2023/10/02/menewood-is-coming/

Nicolaz, 8 months ago to random

MENEWOOD is out in 15 days (!) so I'm starting to gear up: updating my Events page, writing about research into bynames, taking Deep Dives into immersive prose, and more.

http://nicolagriffith.com/2023/09/18/snippets-cath-llew-events-sales-and-deep-dives/

Nicolaz, 8 months ago to random

In exactly three weeks you can read the 3 Books, 7 Parts, and 38 Chapters of the glory that is MENEWOOD! To whet your appetite, here's the opening page, plus a few words about why it's structured as it is.

http://nicolagriffith.com/2023/09/12/three-books-seven-parts-38-chapters/

weirdwriter, 10 months ago to random

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Nicolaz, 10 months ago to random

When I write, landscape is the key to everything. Especially when I'm writing about the early seventh century. For MENEWOOD I had to figure out exactly where Elmet was. Because if people are going to fight and die over territory it matters where that territory is. For that, I had to go back in time and start from the basics: what did the coastline look like 1400 years ago?

Here's a rough proof-of-concept animation I built of Britain now vs. Britain in Hild's time. Wow: Really different!

Video description: Greyscale animated map showing how the Britain (land in white, sea in grey) of today had so much more landmass than the Britain of 1400 years ago

Nicolaz, 10 months ago to random

Ha! This pleases me very super mega much 🤩 I’m delighted! Many thanks to all who voted—and, wow, what great company to be in! 💕

https://locusmag.com/2023/07/2023-world-fantasy-awards-finalists/

mariusor, 10 months ago to random

@Nicolaz forgive the unsolicited advice, but if you're planning to stick around, Mastodon has a method of signaling the account's "official" status by using this method: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification

Nicolaz, 10 months ago to random

I'm new here. So far my handful of posts have been automatic links to my blog posts. But the Elephant Bot just suggested I introduce myself.

So: I'm Nicola, a writer (novels mostly), fighter, kitty wrangler, scholar, and queer crip. The most recent novel is SPEAR, a "queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern age," and a new one, MENEWOOD, sequel to HILD, coming 3 October, 2023.

More about my books here:
https://nicolagriffith.com/books/

#CripLit #medieval #earlymedieval #lifescience #queerlit

Nicolaz, 10 months ago to random

Come and hear me and Chuck Tingle talk about his new book, CAMP DAMASCUS, at Third Place Books, Wednesday 26 July 7:00pm. Free but you need to register.

http://nicolagriffith.com/2023/07/25/tomorrow-me-and-chuck-tingle-at-third-place-books/

Nicolaz, 10 months ago to random

Please enjoy this 45 min video in which I talk with Penny Batchelor about SPEAR, why prizes for disability literature are a revolution, and changing the world, one reader at a time.

http://nicolagriffith.com/2023/07/24/video-interview-about-winning-the-adci-literary-prize/