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Monday, January 27, 2014

Hild roundup #11

No interviews this week, just reviews. No photos of pets reading Hild, either (pity--I like those). Instead, lots of email from readers (male and female, old and young, American and not) telling me how much my work means to them, and in what ways Hild (and Aud, and Lore, and Marghe--yes, all this week) has helped them see the world differently. I am deeply touched. Thank you.

Previous roundups here. Enjoy.

REVIEWS
io9.com
Hild and the triumph of the skeptical fantasy novel, Annaleen Newnitz
"By the time you've finished this engaging, absorbing novel, you'll feel like you understand the political machinery moving beneath the hide of history. And the great St. Hilda will have come to life in your mind, not as a blessed Saint, but as a real human being with decidedly secular talents. This is one of the truly great novels of the past year. Griffith will seduce you with her lush, fantasy-epic prose, and keep you mesmerized with her well-wrought tale of politics in an age of superstition."


Respiring Thoughts
Book Review: Hild by Nicola Griffith,
"There is an elegance and beauty to this book that’s rather mesmerizing at times. Hild is a dense, involved read, but it’s worthwhile for the authenticity that Griffith brings to the table. It’s the kind of book that you immerse yourself in, that you somehow experience rather than simply read."

Story Studio Chicago
January Booklist: What we’re reading
"A wonderful telling of the early life of St. Hilda of Whitby, circa 650 AD. But this Hild is a unique creature who must pay attention to detail in order to survive. The language is transporting, and Griffith writes in an intense, close 3rd person that leaves Hild haunting you long after the book ends. I think this will be next year’s Booker winner. –Jill Pollack"

[Emphasis theirs.]

Literary Lindsey
Review: Hild, Lindsey
"This is the sort of book you want to live inside. Nicola Griffith has meticulously created a world on the verge of chaos. We readers get to enter 7th century England from a unique position. Hild gives us eyes and ears into both the weaving rooms with the women of the court and on the road to battle with the kingdom's warriors. But no one knows who will be in power next and everyone's motives are suspect. Hild travels with the king, from one town to another as they broker support for his rule and suppress uprisings."


Peace Moon Arts
Hild: a review
"This book offers a window to the lost world of 7th C. Britain, almost unknown even to those of us who love the Middle Ages. I was immediately enchanted…"
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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Narrator choice for Hild

From: Colleen

Just a note to tell you I've just purchased Hild at the Audible.com site.  

Yes, I prefer to have an actual book in my hands when I read but I must drive about hither thither and yon all over creation  for work and I've found that the traffic and knob head drivers are ever so much easier to tune out when I'm  immersed  in another world. Also, I have the worst migraines and it is hard to forgo the reading even when I cannot see properly. So, audiobooks are my mana these days.   

At any rate, I want to thank you for using an English reader for your audiobook. I am an American (who grew up in Kenya - long story) but I cannot abide historical tales read aloud in American voices. Is it me? Shhh, don't tell the others.

I hope that you will eventually be back to San Francisco with your lovely wife, for some readings etc.  

I wish you only the best of health this coming year.
I asked for a woman with a British accent and was very glad they agreed. It's a bonus that the narrator, Pearl Hewitt, and I are Northern lasses. All the feedback I've had so far is that listeners like it, so I'm happy.

As for health this year, ha! I went down with a vile cold (or upper respiratory tract infection, depending on which sounds the most deadly) on New Year's Day and it seemed to take an age to go away. But it did pass, eventually. That's the lovely thing about most viruses; if they don't kill you they go away.

I'd love to get to the Bay Area. We just have no idea of our schedule right now. There might be overseas travel for both of us; there might not. Everything's kind of up in the air right now.

Enjoy Hild. And do let me know what you think of the narration.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

What does spin-patterned cloth look like?

From: Deborah

Now I'm just desperate to know what spin-patterned cloth looks like.  I Googled it but got all kinds of things that are clearly not spin patterned cloth.  Do you have any links to good photos of this???
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A spin pattern, the way I'd imagined it, is a very subtle texture on cloth created by the difference in S- and Z-twist yarns of the same colour. Some fibres spin tighter in one direction than another, so the threads would be slightly thinner and denser--unless the spinner is particularly exacting. Textiles fit for royalty, of course, would have been spun by the best, but even if the yarn was the same size the light would catch them differently.

At least that's what I imagined. But I couldn't find any pictures. So I asked the amazing Astrid Bear, a weaver, for help. She came up with a couple of things for me to look at. Neither is quite what I'd imagined.

The first is like seersucker, way too...messy for Hild. I can see that today it might work for women who want a floaty, romantical kind of dress, or perhaps as a flimsy underdress in hot weather (not as much fabric would touch the skin which means that you'd stay cooler). But it's not really Hild's style.

The second (scroll down to the blue cushions) isn't quite right, either, because the subtlety is obscured by the difference in colour.

So if anyone out there can help Deborah--and me--please point us in the right direction.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Ammonite goes multi-generational

I meant to post this in early November. But, eh, we all know what happened that month...

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A conversation two weeks ago on Twitter:
This pleases me enormously (the link in the first tweet leads to an excellent review). In our household we call Ammonite the little book that could. It started life twenty years ago as a cut-price mass-market paperback with what looked like a jellybean spaceship on the cover--all in lurid orange and yellow.

Then it was rereleased with a new cover--still in mass market--to match the nifty original cover of Slow River.

Then it went out of print in 2001 for a few weeks--long enough for me to get a series of anguished emails from academics who'd been planning to teach the book at the beginning of the academic year. I forwarded the emails to my publisher. After a bit of head-scratching they agreed to a brand new contract and a lovely new trade paperback edition, complete with map. I admit, I never really understood the latest cover--which to me looks like a woman wrapped in a bedsheet--but it seems to sell okay so everyone's happy.

But, wow, Ammonite moving through the generations, mother to daughter? I can't tell you how that warms the cockles of my heart.
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And hopefully later this month I'll be able to tell you more about a project I've been working on with an artist. We meant it to be ready last year, to celebrate Ammonite's 20th anniversary, but each of us has been extraordinarily busy with both expected and unexpected (some good, some bad) stuff. Stay tuned...
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Monday, January 20, 2014

Hild roundup #10

I've put together a reference page, Hild: roundup-of-roundups where you can find all previous roundups of interview and review links in one place. I'll do my best to keep it updated (which shouldn't be too hard; the book's been out for more than two months now).

INTERVIEWS
Paris Review
[The introductory paragraph:]
"Late in Nicola Griffith’s 1998 novel The Blue Place, her protagonist, Aud Torvingen, speaks rapturously about a spot on the coast of England. “Have I told you about Whitby Abbey, on the Yorkshire coast? There’s a ruin there that dates from the twelfth century, very haunting, very gothic, but the first abbey there was founded in the seventh century by Hilda. There’s a power there.” Fifteen years later, Griffith’s latest novel, Hild, explores the early life of the woman who would go on to become Hilda of Whitby."
[I'd forgotten all about that passage in TBP. Wow. Carroll did an admirable and thorough job.]

Author’s Magazine (video)
[This was recorded at the height of my unwellness last month, and it shows. But if you can get past how terrible I look, what I'm saying is fine.]

REVIEWS
Flavorwire
"In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up with Nicola Griffith’s Hild, a book of love and sex and war and religious upheaval, and I recommend it even over the warmest pair of Sorels." Maud Newton

KOHO Radio (audio)
[In which Pat Rutledge, from a Book For All Seasons in Leavenworth, talks about Hild. She loves it. Seriously. Go listen.]

Kristen Hannum
Bright mind, quiet mouth
"If you read Hild, and I heartily recommend that you do, notice how Griffith describes place, transporting you to a wild, early Britain. Notice how she shows us how Hild thinks, in terms of patterns, a metaphor of the weft and warp of weaving that well-born women learned from earliest childhood. “Hild walked the hills in the golden time before dusk, senses wide open but no longer restless. One evening she was moved to tears by the blaze of crimson, gold, and green of the wold, moving at the centre of a vast pattern that she knew she would never have the words to explain. The pattern watched over her from the face of every leaf and every tiny flower of furze. She felt safe and sure.”"
[A Catholic perspective on the novel. Worth reading.]

The Lawrentian
Nokes on New Books, Lauren Nokes
"This well researched and beautifully written work of historical fiction tells the story of St. Hild of Whitby as a young woman in seventh-century Anglo-Saxon England. The new religion of Christianity conflicts with the old pagan gods and feudalism holds sway. After the death of her father, Hild becomes court Seer for her uncle. Griffith writes vividly about life during the Middle Ages, especially the joys and struggles of female lives."
[First time I’ve seen something from a student newspaper so I couldn’t resist including it.]

MISCELLANEOUS
San Francisco Chronicle
"Hild, by Nicola Griffith: Young, observant Hild, niece to the king, navigates the tumult of seventh century Britain as kingdoms merge and crumble. Griffith's prose transports and beguiles."
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Saturday, January 18, 2014

The roundup of roundups

I haven't had to the time to sort through the vast (really, there's a lot) pool of reviews, interviews, and Hild publicity miscellany that has accumulated in the last couple of months.

What I've done instead is pull together the links to all the roundups in one easy reference page, the roundup of Hild roundups. So now, should you be so inclined, you can sort through them at your leisure. Every time I do a roundup I'll add it to this list.

Enjoy.
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Friday, January 17, 2014

More Hild?

From Leslie:

I bought Hild at the suggestion of NPR--I often rely on their book reviews to point me in the direction of new and wonderful books, and this time was no exception. I devoured this book. I read it in every waking minute I had available for reading. I got cross at my husband when he wanted to watch "our" TV shows because I couldn't be torn away from this book. Admittedly, some of the language threw me at first, and having the e-book, the pronunciation guide was at the end, and not as accessible as a paper book*. But I hunkered down and gathered the meaning from context and I WAS OFF.


Thank you for writing this book. I completely felt like I was in a different world. I love this history of women… how much they were relied on to keep the entire community running, how they could be strong like Hild. I never got the sense from the whole book that the women were treated as property (well, save Gwladus' situation) and from official history, that's all you get. Women were an afterthought. But they had such huge roles! This was a refreshing read.


I'm not a writer, just an avid reader, but when I came to the end of this book, I simply wanted to know more. What happens to Cian and Hild? What of the war? Does Edwin lose power? I have so many questions that are unanswered… Are you thinking of continuing her story? I would buy it immediately. Thank you again, for such an engaging read, and I plan on checking out some of your other work as well. Thank you for letting me get lost in the story.
[This is probably the most frequent question I've had since mid-November. I picked this one at random from literally dozens of variations on a theme.]

Yes, there will be more. My plan is for there to be three books, and whole thing to be known as LIGHT OF THE WORLD. The second, the one I'm working on now, will cover Hild's life from where we left off at the end of the first to her recruitment by Bishop Aidan into the fledgling church. The third will cover what happened when she got there.

I think.

You have to bear in mind that I'd originally intended to tell Hild's story in one big book. But as I told the Paris Review, I hit 100,000 words and Hild was only twelve... People plan and the gods laugh--especially with fiction.

So, I'm working on it. For those who just can't wait to know what happens next regarding the Big Ticket Historical Names (excluding Hild, of course; we know nothing of this period of her life; anyone who says andy differently, no matter how authoritatively, is just guessing) I can recommend two paths. One is to look names up individually on Wikipedia. You'll have an amazing time tracing the interconnectedness of it all. The second is to buy a narrative non-fiction history, The King in the North, by Max Adams. I read it last month and was pleasantly surprised. It takes as its central focus Oswald Æthelfrithing and while Adams and I don't always see eye-to-eye on the role of women he's spot-on with the kings and battles and so forth. Which means--be warned!--there will be spoilers...
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* For those reading digitally, feel free to download and (gasp!) print some of the extras (map, pronunciation guide, glossary etc.--scroll down to More Information) to refer to so that you're not constantly having to click away from the narrative. Enjoy.

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Monday, January 13, 2014

Hild roundup #9

Yesterday I read a post by Gwenda Bond about sexism and self-promotion. And I remembered several conversations with other women in which they confess* that one of the reasons they read my blog or follow me on Twitter or just like to show up at readings is my absolutely, unrestrained delight in Hild's success. So although I said I would stop doing links roundups for Hild reviews, interviews etc. I've changed my mind.

So here's the ninth roundup up (I've probably missed a bunch of stuff while loafing about over the holidays. If you've seen something fabulous that I've missed, please let me know). Previous roundups are available here.

REVIEWS
Washington Post
Hild by Nicola Griffith, Sara Sklaroff
"Griffith has taken what little is known of the life of St. Hilda and imagined a vibrant, if brutal, world. Her descriptions are inventive and vivid, making Hild a pleasure to sink into... Our male heroes are going to be jealous."


New York Times Magazine
[Just a snippet rather than a review but, hey, NYT Magazine!]

The National
"Griffith’s book is not a novel to race through, but rather one to sink into and ponder, as Hild does, why people do what they do, why they believe what they do, and whether we control our own fate or whether, in fact, “fate goes as it ever must”."

Paste Magazine
Hild by Nicola Griffith, Annie Frazier
"Evocative and full, the language of Hild forms a rich and colorful and wholly real portrait of an imagined seventh-century England. Completely different, otherworldly in its scope and ambition... Homer and Virgil used similarly breathtaking artistic effects... Intoxicating."
[This is long and juicy. Definitely worth reading.]

F5
Epic fantasy without magic, Anna Perieberg Anderson
"Ambitious, astonishing...vivid, detailed, and utterly real. [...] This is the greatest feat a historical novelist can pull off, and Hild does it better than any book I've read since Kristin Lavransdatter (and Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize, so that's high praise). Like Lavransdatter, Hild feels like it was written at the time it portrays — immediate, profound, and captivating."

Notes from the Bedside Table
"One of my very favorite books this year, out of EVERYthing I've read this year. A big, rollicking, epic book about a young woman named Hild who lives in 7th century Britain."
[René is the owner of Eagle Harbor Books in Bainbridge. I met her at PNBA where she was so kind so me and to Kelley.]

MISCELLANEOUS
Huffington Post
Top 10 Best and Worst Books of 2013, Valerie Stivers-Isakova
"Here's another book that I think is being semi-robbed by the literary establishment, for the depressing, predictable reason that it's being treated as genre. [...] Hild is a brilliantly researched, intensely granular, almost out-of-body experiences of being transported to another world. Every detail of life in the seventh century is foreign, but rings true.  The plot kept things moving, and the prose reminded me of Marilynne Robinson in its beauty and strangeness."

io9
The Best SF and F books of 2013, by Charlie Jane Anders
"Nicola's effortlessly immersive descriptions of life in the Middle Ages will enthrall you, but so will her depiction of a woman trying to survive as the Seer in a society that believes in prophecy and conflicting gods. A must-read for anybody who writes (or reads) historical fantasy."

Northwest Akron Branch Library
 I read this novel in June after getting an advanced copy from and meeting the incomparable author at Book Expo America in New York and rarely a day goes by when I don’t think about it. You really feel like you’re experiencing life in 7th Century England…from the comfort of your 21st Century surroundings, of course. Bottom line, Griffith’s words make me swoon.
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* I use the word advisedly. It seems it's not seemly for women to take fierce joy in each other.
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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Kirkland: reading Tuesday, 1/14 at Wilde Rover 7 pm

Don't forget I'm reading on Tuesday, 7 pm, at the Wilde Rover Pub in Kirkland. It'll be a great evening. Be there!

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Saturday, January 11, 2014

Aud in Kindle for UK?

From: Susan Robinson 

I have just come across your Aud books via Stay, borrowed from my local library. Once I realised it was the second out of three I purchased the others, Blue Place and Always for my Kindle (osteoarthritis makes holding a book uncomfortable).

I would dearly like to have Stay for my Kindle as well. Are there any plans to release it? Right now it seems a bit odd to have the previous and subsequent titles available and be missing this important link in the story.

A bonus for me is discovering your books and knowing I have enjoyment ahead of me. My next purchase will be Hild, having read very complimentary reviews on Facebook!
I'm delighted you managed to get the Aud books at all in the UK. They have never been officially published there, just imported from the US. Clearly HarperCollins (who published The Blue Place) and Riverhead/Penguin (Always) feel able to offer the Kindle version but Vintage/Random House (Stay) don't.

I couldn't agree with you more: being able to get two of the books and not the third is so far from ideal it approaches the bizarre. Sadly this is currently out of my control. There's nothing I'd like more than to get the rights back to all three and publish them properly and as a coherent package all over the world. I'm working on it. As and when I get my own way on this I'll post the news here. 

Yesterday I talked to someone on Facebook who had written a lovely appraisal of Aud, and I realized that, while there's still story to be told, I'm not interested in writing a novel until I control how the series is published. But please don't hold your breath. As I said the other day, the state of UK publishing is a mystery to me.

Meanwhile I'm so very sorry to hear about your arthritis. I've suffered the inability--fortunately only temporary--to hold heavy books and I can only imagine your frustration.
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Friday, January 10, 2014

Hild in the UK?

From: Sue

Do you have any idea when Hild will be available in the UK? Online sellers that have it are shipping from the US; which I guess I could do, but I keep expecting to find it in bookshops. And the bookshops also don't seem to know anything. I am frustrated!

Sorry to hear that you've been ill -- best wishes for a quick and complete recovery.
There is currently no UK edition of Hild. (Why? It's a mystery to me, truly. I'm told that UK publishing is wary of long books, though I have to say the evidence is to the contrary. It's rather confusing.)

This means that everything has to ship from the US. The US publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, tell me that the UK distributor, Melia Publishing Services, is importing books; they just keep selling out. Or as a friend in the UK recently put it:

1. Yes, they are stocking it.

2. Yes, they had an initial delivery, but they were all gone in 6 days. Faster than a startled hind, as Hild might have it.

3. Yes, they have ordered more, but they have no idea when they will get them because demand in the US is so high and it is the Holidays....

The main impression I am getting is, "can't print 'em fast enough" :-)

This is good news for me in the sense that if demand is high the book is doing well. But obviously it sucks for readers--which in the long term is bad for me and for the book.

So my goal is to get the book actually published over there. But as UK publishing appears to be in disarray, I'm sorry to say I've no idea how long that will take.
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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Why is Hild buried at Glastonbury?

From: Julie

I visited Glastonbury for the summer solstice when I was in England - why were Hild's remains taken there from Whitby? (Main purpose of rambling comment). What was Glastonbury's purpose/symbolic meaning to the people who lived at that time?

I'm very interested in the pagan mythologies and histories of England, Wales and Brittany, (Brythonic Celt). Caitlin and John Mathews wrote quite a good book, 'The Western Way, A Practical Guide to the Western Mystery Tradition' which lists old pagan folk stories and tales. Especially of the old Gods and goddesses one might meet along the pathways, disguised. And about the mythology of Glastonbury. But really, why were Hild's real remains taken south to Glastonbury?

(Congratulations on your book - I hope it comes out in Australia soon, if not, I'll just order it online from U.S.)

We don't know that she is. The powers-that-be at Glastonbury have always been most astute with spin; I suspect that Hild's translation from Whitby was a bit of a fantasy. King Edmund of East Anglia (or Saint Edmond, if you prefer; b. 841, killed by Vikings around 870) is meant to have moved ('translated') Hild's remains to Glastonbury...but he's also rumoured to have taken them to Gloucester.

There's also a rumour that in order to escape the ravages of the Vikings a monk of Whitby, Tyccea (there are various spellings of his name) fled to Glasonbury with the holy bones of an assortment of saints of the north. He became abbot of Glastonbury and was active as such in the 750s. The thing is, Viking raids didn't start until around 793--or 787, depending. Whichever ever way you slice it, these dates just don't match.

There's a third rumour that William Percy, the first abbot of Whitby, acquired 'by a miracle' an odd assortment of bones from Glastonbury, including bits and pieces of Hild.

In my opinion, we'll never find her body. But, ah, I wish we could. Just two teeth and a scrap of jewellery (with possible mineralised textile attached) could tell us so much!

As it is, she will remain a mystery. Here, as some consolation, is my notion of what her grave marker might have looked like:
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Reading: Kirkland, Tuesday 1/14 at 7 pm

I'm doing a SFWA reading on Tuesday, 14 January, 7 pm, at the Wilde Rover pub in Kirkland. I've never been but the menu looks like damn good Irish pub food. And I don't doubt they'll have Guinness.

There will be three of us reading: me, Kelley (who has some crackjack stuff to share) and Janet Freeman-Daily (I haven't read her stuff but I know her; she'll have something fabulous to read). I'll be reading from Hild, and from a brand-new short story--the audience will be the very first people to get a taste of that.

This is as much as community event as a performance. Come early. A bunch o' people, including us, will be showing up around 5:30; I'll be the one surrounded by empty pint glasses and the remains of fish and chips, and beaming...

The evening runs on a strict timetable. We start promptly at 7 pm (so come early if you want to chat). The readers will be introduced briefly by Brenda Cooper. Then Readers 1 & 2 perform their carefully-timed pieces (we've been threatened with the hook if we overstep our 20-minute slot--which I never do; it's the height of rudeness) followed by a brief break (it's a pub; at this point you'll no doubt need more beer). Followed by Reader #3. Followed by a joint Q and A. Followed by signing (bring your own or buy from the great people of the University Book Store). Then out--because music and sometimes Trivia Night kick in around 9 pm so it's best to be gone by then. So we will be.

SFWA asks that you RSVP to give them a notion of numbers. It's not vital, just a kindness, so if you forget come anyway. Hey, it's free. And there'll be beer. What else could you possibly need?

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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Audio of Seattle Central Library event

I've never heard myself talk so fast. Wow. A mile a minute. I'm guessing it was all the prednisone...

Two readings from Hild, lots of Q and A, and some stories about this and that from me. Here's the link. Enjoy.

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Monday, January 6, 2014

To come in 2014

The last six months of 2013 were absolutely insane. I was working seven days a week, practically around the clock. This year I'm hoping to loll about a bit more. Expect lots of photos of the park and perbs, birds and cats--at least when I'm not wandering in the seventh century with Hild.

However, best-laid plans, etc. I suspect things might not turn out as predicted. For one thing, I might be travelling a bit. I want to go the UK. I'd love to reschedule the trips I had to cancel--to Chicago, and Madison, and Gary--and to perhaps squeeze in Washington DC, New York, Atlanta, and St. Louis. We'll see.

In terms of Hild, I have a couple of interviews still to come: written, in the Paris Review Daily and a new queer glossy, and video for Well Read and Author Magazine.

Next week (Tuesday 1/14, at 7 pm) I'm reading (with Kelley and Janet Freeman-Daily) at a pub in Kirkland. It's a SFWA-sponsored event, and there's beer! Also, I'll be reading not only from Hild but a brand-new short story.

Which reminds me, I have a story coming out (in June, I think) edited by Ellen Datlow for Tor.com. It's called "Cold Wind." It's set in the here-and-now with a definite historical slant and, y'know, some creepy stuff. I'll talk more about that closer to the time. Meanwhile, here's the art:

by Sam Wolfe Connelly

And speaking of art, I hope to finally show you the collaborative mystery project I've been working on with collagist and print-maker Vicki Platts-Brown. (She made Petalville, and my ammonite prints.)

In terms of teaching, I've been asked to do several things this year but am mostly saying no--except to Clarion West. I've agreed to teach a one-day workshop in mid-April. More details on that later. But if you're interested in the secret of immersive fiction, this might be the thing for you.

One thing I can bet on: 2014 will be a rollercoaster ride. But while we're waiting for the year to build steam, I'll answer a representative sample of AN questions which have collected in drifts and piles in my inbox. Stay tuned.
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Sunday, January 5, 2014

New York Times Magazine

I got a pleasant surprise this morning: I opened the New York Times Magazine while sipping my first tea of the day and found this:

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