Laurie R. King

[A letter, to those of you who don’t see my News.]

I’m not sure if you, my dear Friends and Readers, have all just been super busy with the new academic year, or too swept up in the election to focus on anything but else, but the deadline is fast approaching for a contest that so far has only generated one response. And although it’s a lovely entry, I was really really hoping to have some new panels to put into the new, professionally-created video of The Travels (Travails?) of Russell & Holmes. (Here’s Sabrina’s, of Dreaming Spies. Gorgeous, no?)

There are prizes!

GRAND PRIZE:

A complete set of signed Russell & Holmes paperbacks,

including Mary Russell’s War & Other Stories

FIRST RUNNER-UP:

Four full-sized broadsheets for framing

(“A Venomous Death,” “Birth of a Green Man,”

Pirate King movie poster, and “Dreaming Haiku.”)

FIVE RUNNERS-UP:

A collection of 8½ x 11” art from

“The Illustrated Russell & Holmes” (including the four above)

Any scene, any book, from The Meeting in Beekeeper’s Apprentice to the balloonist uncle or Christmas tales in Russell’s War. Acrylic or needlework. Photoshop or Pastels.  You simply need to have your image meet the colors of the frame like Linda has done here:

And truly, you don’t need much artistic talent, which I proved by printing off a bunch of Japanese art and taking out my scissors and glue stick:

Please, let’s make this a really fun project that can become a proper video on YouTube, showing the world how the Friends of Russell know how to have a good time!

The deadline is now October 20^th. Instructions and the frame to print off are here.

And please, please tell all your Russell-loving friends!