Update: Where to find me online

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Obviously, you can find me (Nicola Griffith, writer, scholar, and queer crip; see About for more) here, on my blog and website, where you are now, reading this. Starting in 1995 I began Ask Nicola, a subsite of a website run by friend, Dave Slusher. In 2001 I launched nicolagriffith.com, where, again, I ran a section called Ask Nicola. And in 2008 started a blogger site, also Ask Nicola. In 2014 I consolidated everything into this site. I post whenever I feel like it—sometimes often, sometimes rarely. Take a look at the Top 15 posts of the last year and you’ll get a sense of my range of interests. If you like what you see, sign up to get new posts sent directly to your inbox (find that form in the right sidebar or at the end of each specifically-linked post, depending on how you’re reading this).Another site I run is Gemæcce.com, home of my research blog, which I started in 2008 to have a place to ruminate on the research I do for my sequence of novels about the seventh-century figure, Hild of Whitby. This goes through phases. I can go a year with no post, then when a book approaches publication, or when I’m in the initial, intense phase of research for a new book, post in a hurry and flurry.Twitter—the place I’m most likely to see what other people say and interact online. I mostly work through curated lists of early medieval history, disability, life sciences, and books. Over the last few years I’ve become less politically engaged—not because I don’t care but that Real Life is eating all bandwidth right now—but every now and again something irritates and/or excites me enough for a wee rant.Facebookboth a personal profile (often, but not always, mirroring my personal blog and/or Instagram feed) and an Official Page, though my page is sadly neglected (right now it mirrors posts from my research blog, Gemaecce.com).Instagram—where I post pictures of books, drinks, flowers, cats, and Kelley on an irregular schedule.Bluesky: @nicolaz.bsky.social I signed up a while ago but am only just getting around (as of this week 7/20/23) to populating m profile. Right now I know so little about how it works that I can’t even figure out how to link to my profile So far, I like it. Follow me, I’ll follow you back.Threads: @nicolagriffith Ditto with just starting to use it—but at least I know how to link via a browser instead of this weird appinessYouTube—where I’ve posted a miscellany of videos, mostly toBlow Shit Up!, my playlist of FX vids based largely on finding inventive ways to destroy our Christmas treeReadings, which is, well, me reading from and talking about my booksA few music videos of Janes Plane, the band I fronted in the Long Ago.LinkedIn—which just mirrors my personal blog.Tumblr—ditto.Muckrack—where I sometimes remember to add portfolio links to Op-Eds, newspaper reviews, and essays I’ve written.Author pages on Amazon and Goodreads—but I rarely do anything with them.Various placeholder accounts on Mastodon, Spoutible, TikTok, Post, Medium and others. Whenever a new thing comes along I sign up, just in case, but rarely bother to establish any kind of presence there. As and when that changes I’ll link the accounts.Finally, and very meta(but, confusing, not Meta) Linktr.ee, which is what I put in my social profiles so that users can easily find the link to whatever it is I’m talking about in my post, tweet, whatever the particular platform calls their updates.