Mary Russell: My Story Part 4

Follow Mary Russell’s account of the story behind how and why I came to have the Russell/Holmes memoirs, as described in Laurie’s prefaces to the first four Russell books. Further chapters to come each week during the Fifteen Weeks of Bees every Monday on Myspace, or Tuesdays here on my blog, Mutterings. Mary Russell: My…

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Myspace giveaway and–first review!

Some exciting things this week on LRK-world, week four of the Fifteen Weeks of Bees.  First, you’ve seen Mary Russell’s latest post over on her Myspace blog?  We’ll post the same episode of her ongoing story on Mutterings tomorrow, however, the drawing we’re doing this week will go to someone who posts a comment on…

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And the winner is…

The winner of this week’s Mary Russell word puzzle drawing is Emily Rivard. She won a complete set of the first four Mary Russell novels in paperback from Picador Books. Congratulations Emily!

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First Draft to Proof: The Language of Bees (6)

These are pages six and seven of the final draft of The Language of Bees. The tentative first draft here has a clear sense (to the author, anyway) of where it is going and what needs to take place here, at the beginning, to set the scene for the pages to come. >

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Guest Post — A Striped Armchair

Today we’re making ourselves comfy in A Striped Armchair. Please join me there for my thoughts on writing The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and the many doors it opened to Mary Russell’s further adventures.

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First Draft to Proof: The Language of Bees (5)

This is page four of the original first draft of The Language of Bees. The equivalent pages of the final draft will be posted on Friday, following my guest post at A Striped Armchair tomorrow. (For a bonus, read her review of Beekeeper’s Apprentice today!)

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Mary Russell: My Story, Part 3

Follow Mary Russell’s account of the story behind how and why Laurie R. King came to have the Russell/Holmes memoirs, as described in Laurie’s prefaces to the first four Russell books. Further chapters to come each week during the Fifteen Weeks of Bees every Monday on Myspace, or Tuesdays in Laurie R. King’s blog, Mutterings.…

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