Holly Gramazio
@hollygramazio.bsky.social
Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”.
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pic: Diana Patient
book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands
newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly
info: http://hollygramazio.net
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Holly Gramazio
@hollygramazio.bsky.social
· Mar 27
The UK paperback of "The Husbands" is out! Today!! May I buy your momentary attention for it with a beautiful cat
(yellow is the US/Canada edition, out last week; blue is UK, turquoise is a UK indie bookshop special edition)
(yellow is the US/Canada edition, out last week; blue is UK, turquoise is a UK indie bookshop special edition)
well I dropped my kindle and the screen cracked and now I have a kobo! Which seems like an excellent ereader, but it's very weird to look through the long list of books I bought and never read and whose heft kept me on kindle for so long
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
well I dropped my kindle and the screen cracked and now I have a kobo! Which seems like an excellent ereader, but it's very weird to look through the long list of books I bought and never read and whose heft kept me on kindle for so long
Aaaaa new local bookshop over on Wood Street. AND it’s the sort that does a mix of new and second-hand, my absolute favourite sort of shop
November 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Aaaaa new local bookshop over on Wood Street. AND it’s the sort that does a mix of new and second-hand, my absolute favourite sort of shop
Was just told about the German term “grusel schmusel” which apparently means “scary smooching”? If so, incredible, surely English-language publishing should adopt this instead of continuing to try to get “horromance” off the ground
October 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Was just told about the German term “grusel schmusel” which apparently means “scary smooching”? If so, incredible, surely English-language publishing should adopt this instead of continuing to try to get “horromance” off the ground
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New from the makers of KIDS & CARS:
EGGS
EGGS
October 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
New from the makers of KIDS & CARS:
EGGS
EGGS
Lovely time at @smallpublishers.bsky.social yesterday, definitely ended up with more books than I intended (but many fewer than I wanted)
October 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Lovely time at @smallpublishers.bsky.social yesterday, definitely ended up with more books than I intended (but many fewer than I wanted)
this is indeed an incredibly weird story
I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
www.londoncentric.media
October 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
this is indeed an incredibly weird story
look has anyone I know in London read the Helen Garner diaries and if so do you want to get a coffee and compare Opinions because I am having real trouble figuring out what mine are
October 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
look has anyone I know in London read the Helen Garner diaries and if so do you want to get a coffee and compare Opinions because I am having real trouble figuring out what mine are
Oh this is really charmingly done (via @dayofthemutants.bsky.social ) - little popup explanations of a bunch of the proverbs in Bruegel's big painting-of-proverbs
bruegel.analog.is
bruegel.analog.is
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Oh this is really charmingly done (via @dayofthemutants.bsky.social ) - little popup explanations of a bunch of the proverbs in Bruegel's big painting-of-proverbs
bruegel.analog.is
bruegel.analog.is
this week's newsletter is mostly just some leftover things that happened in Vienna, me grumbling about finally getting covid (after FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, so cross!), and some links buttondown.com/holly/archiv...
Sneezing / costumes / clues / a nice train
Heyo, OUTRAGED to report that I’ve spent the last couple of weeks having Covid for the first time. I guess five years was a pretty good run. Obviously at...
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October 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
this week's newsletter is mostly just some leftover things that happened in Vienna, me grumbling about finally getting covid (after FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, so cross!), and some links buttondown.com/holly/archiv...
the cats have settled into autumn
October 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
the cats have settled into autumn
Reposted by Holly Gramazio
did a big post on the Piranesi larp I did last month blog.vbuckenham.com/i-was-a-chil... - my first ever big larp, and i thought people might want to have a sense what it's like to do something like this!
I was a Child of the House
As I am writing this[1], I just got done doing my first big larp. By which I mean the first that lasted longer than a few hours, the first one I've travelled for, the first that I have slept during. A...
blog.vbuckenham.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
did a big post on the Piranesi larp I did last month blog.vbuckenham.com/i-was-a-chil... - my first ever big larp, and i thought people might want to have a sense what it's like to do something like this!
Reposted by Holly Gramazio
PSA: The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant application deadline is this Sunday at 23:59 PST.
The team and I may not be available over the weekend to answer any last minute questions, so please check out the FAQ and if there's any doubt - apply anyway!
grants.draknek.org
The team and I may not be available over the weekend to answer any last minute questions, so please check out the FAQ and if there's any doubt - apply anyway!
grants.draknek.org
September 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
PSA: The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant application deadline is this Sunday at 23:59 PST.
The team and I may not be available over the weekend to answer any last minute questions, so please check out the FAQ and if there's any doubt - apply anyway!
grants.draknek.org
The team and I may not be available over the weekend to answer any last minute questions, so please check out the FAQ and if there's any doubt - apply anyway!
grants.draknek.org
Okay I wrote up my trip to the WORLD TRAMDRIVER CHAMPIONSHIPS buttondown.com/holly/archiv...
cannot stress enough how much this newsletter issue is just a list of things that happened at the world tramdriver championships, please use your own judgement regarding whether that is of interest to you
cannot stress enough how much this newsletter issue is just a list of things that happened at the world tramdriver championships, please use your own judgement regarding whether that is of interest to you
The World Tramdriver Championships
Heya, Whoops, it’s been a while! But how better to start sending these again than to tell you all about the WORLD TRAMDRIVER CHAMPIONSHIPS in Vienna, which...
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September 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Okay I wrote up my trip to the WORLD TRAMDRIVER CHAMPIONSHIPS buttondown.com/holly/archiv...
cannot stress enough how much this newsletter issue is just a list of things that happened at the world tramdriver championships, please use your own judgement regarding whether that is of interest to you
cannot stress enough how much this newsletter issue is just a list of things that happened at the world tramdriver championships, please use your own judgement regarding whether that is of interest to you
There's a WEEK left to sign up to mentor for @artsemergency.bsky.social - potentially get paired with a young person (16-18) who wants to work in the arts/creative industries, but who might not have the contacts or context to help them understand how to do that www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved...
Become a mentor
Registration to be a mentor in 2026 is now open! Arts Emergency mentors support young people in Greater Manchester, London and Merseyside who are interested in the creative and cultural industries and...
www.arts-emergency.org
September 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
There's a WEEK left to sign up to mentor for @artsemergency.bsky.social - potentially get paired with a young person (16-18) who wants to work in the arts/creative industries, but who might not have the contacts or context to help them understand how to do that www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved...
oh yeah that makes sense, thx
September 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
oh yeah that makes sense, thx
This seems needlessly complicated
September 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This seems needlessly complicated
We are at the World Tram Driving Championships
September 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
We are at the World Tram Driving Championships
Had such a nice time on a panel with @tomfaber91.bsky.social @jon.inkle.co @jmechner.bsky.social at the Financial Times festival, did find it very funny to walk in and be immediately faced with this tent
September 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Had such a nice time on a panel with @tomfaber91.bsky.social @jon.inkle.co @jmechner.bsky.social at the Financial Times festival, did find it very funny to walk in and be immediately faced with this tent
I didn't realise E. Nesbit (of "Five Children and It", "The Railway Children" etc) also wrote a bunch of adult books! I found this recent reissue of "The Lark" (1922) in a second-hand shop the other day and it's pretty charming, maybe a little forgettable
September 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I didn't realise E. Nesbit (of "Five Children and It", "The Railway Children" etc) also wrote a bunch of adult books! I found this recent reissue of "The Lark" (1922) in a second-hand shop the other day and it's pretty charming, maybe a little forgettable
I don't think of myself as listening to podcasts much but I found out about @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social - which is basically @emilytesh.net and @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social talking about every Diana Wynne Jones book in turn, for an hour or sometimes two - a fortnight ago when it won a Hugo
August 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I don't think of myself as listening to podcasts much but I found out about @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social - which is basically @emilytesh.net and @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social talking about every Diana Wynne Jones book in turn, for an hour or sometimes two - a fortnight ago when it won a Hugo
The £30 I spend to be a "friend" of the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social is, in terms of purely selfish pleasure, the best £30 I spend a year, because every six months - just when I've forgotten it's going to happen again - they send me a pack of weird little postcards publicdomainreview.org/support/
August 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The £30 I spend to be a "friend" of the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social is, in terms of purely selfish pleasure, the best £30 I spend a year, because every six months - just when I've forgotten it's going to happen again - they send me a pack of weird little postcards publicdomainreview.org/support/
Reposted by Holly Gramazio
I didn't even think it was possible to *have* a favourite page of a freezer manual…
November 20, 2024 at 12:39 AM
I didn't even think it was possible to *have* a favourite page of a freezer manual…
very good wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-l...
July 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
very good wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-l...
Every place I've ever bought socks is all "oh noooo please fill in this form to tell us what we did to anger you :-(" when I unsubscribe from their Daily Sock newsletter but there's never a form for the newsletters where I want to explain at great length what really annoying thing they just did
July 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Every place I've ever bought socks is all "oh noooo please fill in this form to tell us what we did to anger you :-(" when I unsubscribe from their Daily Sock newsletter but there's never a form for the newsletters where I want to explain at great length what really annoying thing they just did
some nice animal illustrations from 1658 pdimagearchive.org/galleries/so... Lots of earnest attempts at animals that turned out not to exist but I think my favourite is the bear (gorgeous) or the beaver (startled)
July 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
some nice animal illustrations from 1658 pdimagearchive.org/galleries/so... Lots of earnest attempts at animals that turned out not to exist but I think my favourite is the bear (gorgeous) or the beaver (startled)