Nina de Gramont
@ninadegramont.bsky.social
Writer, Teacher, Mom.
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Speak, speak, speak!
April 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Speak, speak, speak!
Picked my dog up from the kennel this morning but somehow cannot break the habit of checking their webcams?
March 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Picked my dog up from the kennel this morning but somehow cannot break the habit of checking their webcams?
News!
A new book by @ninadegramont.bsky.social !! I repeat: a new book by Nina de Gramont. Thanks @simonandschuster.bsky.social !! Can’t wait for you to read it. It’s amazing.
@publisherslunch.bsky.social
@publisherslunch.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
News!
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Dear friends, it's too late for next year, but please don't use AI for statements of purpose for writing programs. (Or anything.)
This includes for research about specific program. AI gets facts wrong. Those mistakes are glaring. Just look at the program's website directly.
This includes for research about specific program. AI gets facts wrong. Those mistakes are glaring. Just look at the program's website directly.
January 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Dear friends, it's too late for next year, but please don't use AI for statements of purpose for writing programs. (Or anything.)
This includes for research about specific program. AI gets facts wrong. Those mistakes are glaring. Just look at the program's website directly.
This includes for research about specific program. AI gets facts wrong. Those mistakes are glaring. Just look at the program's website directly.
As a former bookseller and loader of spin racks, this is a thrill!
Just got the mass market paperback edition of The Christie Affair by @ninadegramont.bsky.social and I couldn’t be more excited. Can’t remember the last time one of my clients was published in mass market, the format of my obsessively reading youth. How pretty is this?Airport bookstores here we come!
January 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
As a former bookseller and loader of spin racks, this is a thrill!
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Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
January 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
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Creative writing professor and lauded environmental writer David Gessner has been awarded the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professorship in Creative Writing. uncw.edu/news/academic-affairs/chssa/2024/10/gessner-named-kenan-distinguished-professor
Gessner Named Kenan Distinguished Professor
Creative writing professor and lauded environmental writer David Gessner has been awarded the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professorship in Creative Writing.
uncw.edu
November 26, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Creative writing professor and lauded environmental writer David Gessner has been awarded the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professorship in Creative Writing. uncw.edu/news/academic-affairs/chssa/2024/10/gessner-named-kenan-distinguished-professor
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I promise you, once you free yourself from the notion that other writers are your competition and start viewing them as your fellow weirdos who share similar special interests as you, your life in publishing will become so much easier.
January 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I promise you, once you free yourself from the notion that other writers are your competition and start viewing them as your fellow weirdos who share similar special interests as you, your life in publishing will become so much easier.
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Here's a thing you should know:
I've been working with extremely adept writers, many of them positively dripping in prizes, for decades, and they don't always get punctuation right, and they don't always know what nonplussed means, and they can't always tell the difference between lead and led.
I've been working with extremely adept writers, many of them positively dripping in prizes, for decades, and they don't always get punctuation right, and they don't always know what nonplussed means, and they can't always tell the difference between lead and led.
December 14, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Here's a thing you should know:
I've been working with extremely adept writers, many of them positively dripping in prizes, for decades, and they don't always get punctuation right, and they don't always know what nonplussed means, and they can't always tell the difference between lead and led.
I've been working with extremely adept writers, many of them positively dripping in prizes, for decades, and they don't always get punctuation right, and they don't always know what nonplussed means, and they can't always tell the difference between lead and led.
I’m so excited about this stellar review in Publisher’s Weekly for David Gessner’s latest, The Book of Flaco!
November 24, 2024 at 12:25 AM
I’m so excited about this stellar review in Publisher’s Weekly for David Gessner’s latest, The Book of Flaco!
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We are hiring for two Assistant/Associate Professor positions! Details and requirements are posted at jobs.uncw.edu/hr/postings/... (Fiction) and jobs.uncw.edu/hr/postings/... (Poetry).
Please share with qualified and interested folks, or any appropriate group.
Please share with qualified and interested folks, or any appropriate group.
November 18, 2024 at 4:37 PM
We are hiring for two Assistant/Associate Professor positions! Details and requirements are posted at jobs.uncw.edu/hr/postings/... (Fiction) and jobs.uncw.edu/hr/postings/... (Poetry).
Please share with qualified and interested folks, or any appropriate group.
Please share with qualified and interested folks, or any appropriate group.
Despair is understandable but not sustainable.
November 16, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Despair is understandable but not sustainable.
Whenever I’m tempted to turn on cable news I watch an episode of Friends instead. Highly recommend.
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Whenever I’m tempted to turn on cable news I watch an episode of Friends instead. Highly recommend.
Since 1987, my life has been the wait between Stephen McCauley novels. So excited this one has landed!
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Since 1987, my life has been the wait between Stephen McCauley novels. So excited this one has landed!
Saw a social media post saying, “Never use the word both!” It was so confident and convincing, I obediently combed through my current manuscript.
Trust me. Sometimes you need both.
Trust me. Sometimes you need both.
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Saw a social media post saying, “Never use the word both!” It was so confident and convincing, I obediently combed through my current manuscript.
Trust me. Sometimes you need both.
Trust me. Sometimes you need both.
Oh Word. What did contractions ever do to you?
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Oh Word. What did contractions ever do to you?
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Read The Christie Affair by @ninadegramont.bsky.social if you haven’t yet. It’s INCREDIBLE.
Read The Christie Affair by @ninadegramont.bsky.social if you haven’t yet. It’s INCREDIBLE.
Reese Witherspoon has been recommending books for 5 years. Here are 10 of the best.
Add these to your list.
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November 4, 2023 at 8:29 PM
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Read The Christie Affair by @ninadegramont.bsky.social if you haven’t yet. It’s INCREDIBLE.
Read The Christie Affair by @ninadegramont.bsky.social if you haven’t yet. It’s INCREDIBLE.
Form opinions. Don’t memorize them.
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Form opinions. Don’t memorize them.
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I think all artists can relate the the part where Frankenstein was like "I am going to make a man that is SO BEAUTIFUL" and then when he's finished he's like "I fucked up."
October 17, 2023 at 3:33 AM
I think all artists can relate the the part where Frankenstein was like "I am going to make a man that is SO BEAUTIFUL" and then when he's finished he's like "I fucked up."
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Most career authors are waiting for the email that will change their life. The big book deal, the movie deal, the award or bestselling status, congrats for going viral. For many, that email will never come. That's why you have to love story. You have to love the dancing more than the applause.
October 5, 2023 at 2:45 PM
Most career authors are waiting for the email that will change their life. The big book deal, the movie deal, the award or bestselling status, congrats for going viral. For many, that email will never come. That's why you have to love story. You have to love the dancing more than the applause.
I love this and needed to hear it www.nytimes.com/2023/09/24/o...
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
I love this and needed to hear it www.nytimes.com/2023/09/24/o...
1. Preschool teacher
2. Greenpeace canvasser
3. Mack truck cleaning crew
2. Greenpeace canvasser
3. Mack truck cleaning crew
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from your current job:
1. Frozade pushcart vendor in Central Park
2. Salad bar boy at Beefsteak Charlie’s in Atlantic City
3. Housing discrimination worker
4. Burger King burger assembler
1. Frozade pushcart vendor in Central Park
2. Salad bar boy at Beefsteak Charlie’s in Atlantic City
3. Housing discrimination worker
4. Burger King burger assembler
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
1. Preschool teacher
2. Greenpeace canvasser
3. Mack truck cleaning crew
2. Greenpeace canvasser
3. Mack truck cleaning crew
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FYI: The Steinbeck Fellowship at San José State University is now open for applications. The fellowship is focused on supporting emerging early career writers. Recent Fellows include Gabriela Garcia, Meron Hadero, R.O. Kwon, Vanessa Hua, & the late Anthony Veasna So.
www.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/aw...
www.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/aw...
September 11, 2023 at 10:43 PM
FYI: The Steinbeck Fellowship at San José State University is now open for applications. The fellowship is focused on supporting emerging early career writers. Recent Fellows include Gabriela Garcia, Meron Hadero, R.O. Kwon, Vanessa Hua, & the late Anthony Veasna So.
www.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/aw...
www.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/aw...
Of the things we do that baffle our dogs, everyone hanging out in separate rooms is definitely #1.
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Of the things we do that baffle our dogs, everyone hanging out in separate rooms is definitely #1.