Twenty Weeks of Buzz
Peripheral prizes
Want to know more about The God of the Hive? Like, how on earth a person like Robert Goodman came to be? You have a chance to win “Birth of a Green Man,” the illustrated short story about a key moment in Goodman’s history, by sending me the receipt for the book purchased from an…
Read MoreDoing good & doing well
Q: What do these names have in common: Glen Miranker, David Scheiman, Richard Sosa, Chris Williams, and Alice Wright? A: Each of these good folk has a doppelganger in the fiction of one Laurie R. King. About once a book, I donate a character name to one charity or another. This year, the charity is…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Week Twenty
What’s this I see? Mary Russell has a new post over on her MySpace page? Episodes of “A Case in Correspondence” will appear there Wednesdays throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, and on Fridays you can find them here at Mutterings. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up…
Read MoreThe Language of Bees (cont.)
This is the final Tuesday of our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, and (appropriately) continues last week’s post concerning the nineteenth novel. However, I shall be putting up a bonus post next week on The God of the Hive, entitled, “Writing a god into being.” You might want to read the book first… The first Russell…
Read MoreWhew—twenty weeks!
Back in December, we opened up a new and beautiful web site, and kicked off the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, to celebrate and speculate about my books. I chose the number because The God of the Hive would be my twentieth novel, and I wanted to write a brief essay about each book. I also…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Part Nineteen
A series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Week Nineteen
What’s this I see? Mary Russell has a new post over on her MySpace page? Episodes of “A Case in Correspondence” will appear there Wednesdays throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, and on Fridays you can find them here at Mutterings. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up…
Read MoreThe Language of Bees
This is the nineteenth Tuesday of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, when I post remarks about the writing process of a different book each week. This week we’re up to the 2009 title, The Language of Bees. One of the drawbacks of writing a series, especially for those of us writers who have a low…
Read MorePenultimate week
Here are the new covers for the three backlist paperbacks, gorgeous things all (click image to enlarge): And now that you’ve had a week to read (and perhaps reread?) The God of the Hive, you can download a brand new official LRK reading guide on the Reading Guide page. (Careful, there are spoilers.) Make sure…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Part Eighteen
A series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
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