Archive for 2010
A Case in Correspondence: Part Sixteen
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 MoreFantasy Library contest
As I said yesterday, this was no easy contest to judge. I hope you’ve looked at my top ten submissions, which I chose in part with an eye to having some of each kind. (The only things we didn’t get were audio or video submissions. Or baked goods, none of those so far have arrived.) …
Read MoreNational Library Fantasies
Mary Russell’s Wednesday post is over on her MySpace page — and that episode of “A Case in Correspondence” in its original form will appear here on Friday. ** Oh, I’ve had such fun looking at the submissions for the Fantasy Library contest—you people are great! The only problem is, after setting the contest under way, I now…
Read MoreLocked Rooms
Each Tuesday of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’ll be posting about a different one of my books, with remarks, reflections, and bits of information about how the book came to be. This week I discuss Locked Rooms, published in 2005. It started with a dream. I was giving a tour of a house—my house,…
Read MoreLove your library!
Happy National Library Week—kiss a librarian today. Or maybe take her or him a batch of nutritious muffins, or a shiny apple, or just a thank-you card. We love libraries! And this being Library Week, the Twenty Weeks of Buzz contest for “My Fantasy Library” is now closed. I’m going through the entries (Wow, what…
Read MoreForeign airs
So the way it started was, last year I had a conference in Hawaii and my family badly needed a break, too, so I flew them out for ten days following my conference, even though I had a book I needed to work on. I told them—I told myself—that I would be working on the…
Read MoreDeadlines & Passing on the Gift
Just a quick reminder to send your submissions for both the Fantasy Library Contest and the Beekeeper’s Gallery (any art that doesn’t fit within the frame of a Russellscape) to bees@laurierking.com by this coming Monday, April 12. Voting for the Beekeeper’s Gallery will begin that day, so come back next week and cast your vote…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Part Fifteen
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 MoreTemples of book worship
If you visit, or subscribe to, this blog, you love books. And if you’re anything like me, you caught your bibliophilia from a library, most likely the one in your home town. Here was mine, in Santa Cruz, California, a building I visited at least once a week when we lived there in the early…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Week Fifteen
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…
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