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Brilliantly written poetic sagas honed by time and performance.

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Nicola Griffith has won the Nebula Award, the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award, the World Fantasy Award, and six Lambda Literary Awards. She is also the co-editor of the Bending the Landscape series of anthologies. Her newest novel, Hild, will be published fall 2013. She lives in Seattle with her partner, writer Kelley Eskridge.

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Nicola Griffith Karen wrote: "Hi Nicola,
Fabulous to find you here. A few years ago, we chatted over at My Space.
My memoir, ME & HER: A Memoir of Madness,
my journey INTO and out of Insanity is now on Amazon and Goodreads wi..."


Hello again. Congrats on the reviews.


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Karen Tyrrell Hi Nicola,
Fabulous to find you here. A few years ago, we chatted over at My Space.
My memoir, ME & HER: A Memoir of Madness,
my journey INTO and out of Insanity is now on Amazon and Goodreads with 5 Star reviews.
Please check out http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
cheers,
Karen :)


Nicola Griffith Lettie wrote: "Thanks for the friendship add!"

My pleasure.


Nicola Griffith Elaine wrote: "Nice page. I see you are also a Virgo. I was going to add that I'm probably a lot older, but I can't compare to 0614. If I'm reading that correctly. Hmm, I'm already a fan and a "friend." What else..."

I chose 614 because that's Hild's birth year. But my birthday is 30th Sept.--which makes me a Libra.

The biggest, best thing you can do do is review one of my books, I think. But I'm so new to all this I'm honestly not sure. Thanks for friending and liking.


Elaine Burnes Nice page. I see you are also a Virgo. I was going to add that I'm probably a lot older, but I can't compare to 0614. If I'm reading that correctly. Hmm, I'm already a fan and a "friend." What else can I do...Like, I guess. Will do.
Elaine


Lettie Prell Thanks for the friendship add!


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