Posts by Laurie King
Publication Day!
Today’s the day. The Language of Bees steps out to meet its public, and like a child headed onto the big yellow school bus for the first time, it makes its creator very nervous. Please, friends, treat my new baby with love… and if you come out to see me on the road, I take…
Read MoreCue the theme of “24”!
One more day until The Language of Bees hits the shelves—wheee! And, this is Week 13 of Fifteen Weeks of Bees, which means things are heating up in the online schedule as well. Russellscapes contest will close on Friday, May 1, so take a look at your competition and look at how to make an…
Read MoreIt’s Honey Day!
Sherlock Holmes was a beekeeper. According to Arthur Conan Doyle, he retired to Sussex in the early years of the Twentieth Century and divided his time “between philosophy and agriculture.” Later, details were provided when his hitherto unknown work on beekeeping played a role in breaking a spy ring on the very eve of the…
Read MoreYouTube Contest Winners
The video entries for this week’s contest were all excellent, so I decided to give them all a prize. TSDKerry won a hardcover of The Language of Bees for her video of Russell in San Francisco, and Canzonett won an ARC of The Language of Bees for her imagining of Russell’s rudely interrupted studies. Last…
Read MoreSlashing divine inspiration
In The Language of Bees, Mary Russell first meets the Reverend Thomas Brothers through his work of inspiration, which he calls Testimony. Testimony is his Bible, the holy writ that his congregation reads in their services, and describes how he came to know Divine Will. During the rewrite process of The Language of Bees, most…
Read MoreLRK on the road, again!
The Bee is coming! That’s right: The Language of Bees launches on Tuesday, with a fiesta abuzz with bees and Bohemians and vintage aeroplane talk—at the great Book Passage store in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. And beginning Wednesday, I will post a blog about every stop I make between Launch Day and Mother’s Day. Here’s…
Read MoreTome travelling
As has become our habit during the Fifteen Weeks, Thursday is guest post day. This time I’m visiting the Tome Traveller, who herself is just back from the UK. Her post yesterday is a review of The Language of Bees, although if you don’t want spoilers, you might want to keep your eyes averted from…
Read MoreThe voice of Russell
One of our long-time friends here in the LRK web world is “Laidee Marjorie.” Marjorie has been an enthusiastic part of meet-ups and discussions, and she is the chief puzzler among us, inventor of the diabolically clever Russell puzzles during weeks 3, 5, and 9 of the Fifteen Weeks of Bees. Social networking is a…
Read MoreYouTube Contest Deadline Extended
Due to popular demand, we’ve extended the deadline for this week’s YouTube contest until this Friday, April 24 to allow you to submit your best dramatization of Russell and Holmes’ world! Guidelines and the submission process can be found on the Contests page. Good luck!
Read MoreEpisode 12 in the Perils of Russell & Holmes
Week Twelve of Fifteen Weeks of Bees, and over at Myspace, Russell and Holmes are being pursued by a pack of importunate American Sherlockians, who chased the duo from their Sussex home to Oxford. 12. You need to remember, this was 1992, and the number of people who knew that Sherlock Holmes had a wife…
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