Genevieve Gornichec
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Hi friends! I haven’t had much to post lately, b Hi friends! I haven’t had much to post lately, but some big life changes are on the way. I can’t wait to tell you more about them, and I hope to have some bookish news to share soon too. My first Viking Age living history event of the year was Ashville (OH) Viking Festival this past weekend, and it’s one of my favorites. Please enjoy this photograph of me spinning (poorly)(the spindle must’ve moved mid-shot because the thread is in two different places lol). I hope you’ve been well in these increasingly trying times. More to come 👀 (image description: the author in a yellow linen dress sitting behind a wooden table, spinning wool with a drop spindle) 📸: serialthrillerblues (thank you!)
✨TWH 4TH BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY✨ Edit: winner has ✨TWH 4TH BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY✨ Edit: winner has been chosen!!! Thank you so much, everybody, for your comments and love ❤️❤️❤️ Original post: please excuse me while I catch up on about three months of tags and messages! I was on deadline through the end of last year and I’m finally bouncing back (burnout: the gift that keeps on giving 😵‍💫) my debut novel THE WITCH’S HEART first came out four years ago today and my life has not been the same since. I sound like a broken record at this point but words just aren’t enough to express my gratitude for the love you’ve shown me. thank you for everything. I’m giving away a US paperback of TWH (and also a US paperback of Weaver) to celebrate the occasion! TO ENTER: like this post and drop your most used (and/or favorite) emoji in the comments 👇 (yes I know I’ve done this before but I’m running out of ideas!) 18+ and open internationally! Winner will be randomly selected at noon EST tomorrow, 10 February 2025. image descriptions: slide 1: the author with The Witch’s Heart slide 2: The Witch’s Heart US paperback on a piece of blue fabric surrounded by glass beads slide 3: The Witch’s Heart and The Weaver and the Witch Queen US paperbacks on a piece of blue fabric surrounded by glass beads, silver coins, and bone dice
I set up and started weaving a little demo piece o I set up and started weaving a little demo piece on a warp-weighted loom for the first time EVER at an educational event with my Viking group this past weekend 🧶 I knew how to do it *in theory* because of all the research I did for THE WEAVER AND THE WITCH QUEEN (for all the weaving scenes I had to cut 🫠) but this was my first time doing it with my own two hands. It was so intimidating! As I was working, I couldn’t help but remember that this was how fabric was made for thousands of years before the horizontal loom and machines took over. Like, imagine hundreds if not thousands of much thinner threads spanning the entire length of this loom, and how much time it would have taken to wash, comb/card, and spin those threads before they even MADE it to the loom. And then the time it would take to set up and then weave…and then sew the finished piece into a garment. Being my very first piece, it ain’t pretty. But hey, I think Oddný, Ulla, and Sæunn would be proud of my effort. 😅 Hoping to get the hang of this by my next event and make something even nicer! Image descriptions: 1&2: the author weaving at a standing loom 3: standing in front of the loom after warping the loom but before chaining, attaching half the warps to the heddle, and weaving
had the opportunity to do a tablet weaving demo at had the opportunity to do a tablet weaving demo at a Viking Age living history campout last weekend! these events fill my metaphorical cup, both academically and creatively. being around other living historians always motivates and and inspires me to better my stories, my kit, my fiber skills, and my own depth of knowledge. this time, now that I am finally on the mend after two years of burnout, I’m determined to keep that fire going until the next one. (headband is by the amazing @hrafna.norse.crafts and to my knowledge is the only reconstruction of this particular band to date - speaking of people who inspire me to be better, Alicja’s work is absolute goals ❤️) Image descriptions: slide 1: the author speaking in front of the group slide 2: some simple example bands slide 3: author tablet weaving slide 4: some example bands based on those found in Iceland (the weekend’s theme!) (top two are patterns by Dagný Sveinsdóttir and Björn Sæmundarson; bottom pattern by Silvia Aisling) slide 5: author tablet weaving; photo by @kollakottr
✨THE WEAVER AND THE WITCH QUEEN✨ (2023) (part ✨THE WEAVER AND THE WITCH QUEEN✨ (2023) (part 2 of 2) I am way overdue for a new pinned post, and y’all seemed to really like the signs I made for my B&N event, so I adapted them to be more IG-friendly. enjoy!!!! Writing this book was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life, but not a day goes by that I don’t think about these characters and this world. I hope to complete the stories of Gunnhild & Friends in the future. Thank you to everyone who gave this book a chance despite it being vastly different from my debut. More to come… 👀 (image description tk)
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