Nyla Nox's Blog, page 2
April 20, 2015
Nyla Nox is quoted in the Telegraph
really!
" She said her seven years working in a back office for a big investment bank was a “brutalising process” which removed “all motivation except that to be a ‘winner’”. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/Eight-bu...…
Nyla Nox
" She said her seven years working in a back office for a big investment bank was a “brutalising process” which removed “all motivation except that to be a ‘winner’”. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/Eight-bu...…
Nyla Nox
April 1, 2015
Thought provoking article in Open Democracy about my book 'Graveyards of the Banks' (volume 1)
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourking...
Graveyards of the Banks
"Bankers, says the current iconography, are greedy, amoral money grabbers.
I, too, once subscribed to that innocent belief. But the bankers I met during seven years of working on the graveyard shift at the Most Successful Bank in the Universe are nothing like as harmless as that.
What I saw during those seven seasons of midnights at the Bank was a brutal social Darwinist selection of the Fittest to Rule, an adoration of military style masculinity, and above all a cult of ‘leadership’ as an inborn trait that is supposed to make those ‘leaders’ genetically superior to the rest of us – and justifies their sadistic treatment of ‘inferiors’. Reluctantly, and over time, I began to admit to myself that there is a word for this kind of ideology although it is rarely used in this context. A word that is big and frightening. Let me take you a little further inside the Bank before I dare to voice it."
Graveyards of the Banks
"Bankers, says the current iconography, are greedy, amoral money grabbers.
I, too, once subscribed to that innocent belief. But the bankers I met during seven years of working on the graveyard shift at the Most Successful Bank in the Universe are nothing like as harmless as that.
What I saw during those seven seasons of midnights at the Bank was a brutal social Darwinist selection of the Fittest to Rule, an adoration of military style masculinity, and above all a cult of ‘leadership’ as an inborn trait that is supposed to make those ‘leaders’ genetically superior to the rest of us – and justifies their sadistic treatment of ‘inferiors’. Reluctantly, and over time, I began to admit to myself that there is a word for this kind of ideology although it is rarely used in this context. A word that is big and frightening. Let me take you a little further inside the Bank before I dare to voice it."
March 9, 2015
Crowdfunding campaign raised 100%!
The crowdfunding campaign for 'Graveyards of the Banks - I did it for the money' has raised 100% of its goal over at indiegogo.https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ny...
Thank you fearless funders! We will use every penny to get to the word out about this groundbreaking novel from the dark heart of capitalism.
Set on the graveyard shift in the Most Successful Bank in the Universe in the City of London.
Graveyards of the Banks
Thank you fearless funders! We will use every penny to get to the word out about this groundbreaking novel from the dark heart of capitalism.
Set on the graveyard shift in the Most Successful Bank in the Universe in the City of London.
Graveyards of the Banks
February 24, 2015
12 hour nonstop marathon blog for novel 'Graveyards of the Banks'
Graveyards of the Banks presents: 'Night of the Graveyards'.
Join Nyla Nox working a virtual shift in the Most Successful Bank in the Universe. just like in her book.
Thursday 26 Feb 10PM to Friday 27 Feb 10AM London time on Facebook. Posts every 15 minutes! All questions answered...
nightshift food, nightshift music (in 1 ear only so that Nyla can still hear her supervisor's commands), only 3 five minute breaks in the entire shift.
Come and join Nyla in her 12 hour nonstop marathon blog.
https://www.facebook.com/NylaNoxGraveyards of the Banks
Join Nyla Nox working a virtual shift in the Most Successful Bank in the Universe. just like in her book.
Thursday 26 Feb 10PM to Friday 27 Feb 10AM London time on Facebook. Posts every 15 minutes! All questions answered...
nightshift food, nightshift music (in 1 ear only so that Nyla can still hear her supervisor's commands), only 3 five minute breaks in the entire shift.
Come and join Nyla in her 12 hour nonstop marathon blog.
https://www.facebook.com/NylaNoxGraveyards of the Banks
January 25, 2015
Cover reveal for Graveyards of the Banks Volume 1 'I did it for the money' coming up!
Very excited.
This is the novel based on my experiences at the Most Successful Bank in the Universe. I worked on it for five years, two of them full time, and it took me a long time to get it published.
I'm scared.
But the voice of my little tribe needs to be heard...
More soon
This is the novel based on my experiences at the Most Successful Bank in the Universe. I worked on it for five years, two of them full time, and it took me a long time to get it published.
I'm scared.
But the voice of my little tribe needs to be heard...
More soon
January 3, 2015
Unconventional structures
Working with the fabulous Bebe from Athens on the layout of Volume 1 of 'Graveyards of the Banks' - the usual 'problems' caused by my unusual chapter structure. I see these 'problems' as great innovations of course, embodying the contemporary reading experience, particularly on ebooks. It reads a little bit like this picture from a housing estate in Rotterdam:
http://www.mysimplemindedlife.com/wp-...
http://www.mysimplemindedlife.com/wp-...
December 25, 2014
Free Christmas short story!
just a little something for your mind stocking a nice little subversive short story for this season..
Nine year old Nyla is cast as an angel in the Christmas play at her school. But it's not pretty... At least she's not a sheep, not yet...
Just the right mixture of light and dark to read on the first night of Christmas. Cuddle into your covers and enjoy.
Download FREE on smashwords HERE.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Nine year old Nyla is cast as an angel in the Christmas play at her school. But it's not pretty... At least she's not a sheep, not yet...
Just the right mixture of light and dark to read on the first night of Christmas. Cuddle into your covers and enjoy.
Download FREE on smashwords HERE.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
June 7, 2014
coming soon: 'The Man in the Mirror'
very edgy short story about girls and body modification in a near future setting. As always, I tried to develop a new style to fit the content - with the result that the story is incredibly difficult to place! but maybe, maybe this will work...
September 20, 2013
Nyla Nox was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 on 12 September
The BBC introduced me as 'writer Nyla Nox, joining us from her study'. Although my contribution to the programme was short, I am so happy that my voice was heard. Our voice, the 'prey' workers on the graveyard shift.
the programme is available to listen to on iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039rqqh and as a download here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/...
This is the second time in three months that I am asked by the Big Media to comment on the subject of worker abuse in the big banks and what that says about those institutions. Maybe something is happening, finally...
the programme is available to listen to on iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039rqqh and as a download here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/...
This is the second time in three months that I am asked by the Big Media to comment on the subject of worker abuse in the big banks and what that says about those institutions. Maybe something is happening, finally...
July 13, 2013
My novella 'The Green Shadow' is now available on amazon inside the anthology 'The Irony of Survival' by Zharmae Press
http://www.amazon.com/Irony-of-Surviv...
Read it here!
It's a beautiful, dreamy novella set in a tropical country among the mango trees and the canals.
Seems not to be yet listed on Goodreads...
Read it here!
It's a beautiful, dreamy novella set in a tropical country among the mango trees and the canals.
Seems not to be yet listed on Goodreads...
