Posts by Laurie King
Contest: Mary Russell Word Ladder
One of the things I’ve discovered, as I’ve become more involved in the web, is that the community of people devoted to my books is a richly varied and wildly talented one. By way of example, “Laidee Marjorie,” a regular on the Virtual Book Club, loves to create puzzles. So the contest for this week’s…
Read MoreBlog Tour — Reading Group Guides
Today’s post is brought to you by the letter–er, no, we’re not on Sesame Street today. We’re on the excellent Reading Group Guides blog instead, carrying on about Items of interest to Laurie (and, we hope, to others). Join me here.
Read MoreFirst Draft to Proof: The Language of Bees (4)
These are pages four and five of the final draft of The Language of Bees. My first drafts tend to be brief, with sections that are skeletal, as I feel my way through the plot and the situation. The rewrite for a 350 page first draft, for example, tends to end up at around 450…
Read MoreFirst Draft to Proof: The Language of Bees (3)
This is page three of the original first draft of The Language of Bees–the equivalent pages of the final draft will be posted tomorrow. (Click on each image to enlarge.)
Read MoreMary Russell: My Story Part 2
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.…
Read MoreMary Russell’s Story — Part 2
Mary Russell posts on her Myspace blog every Monday during the Fifteen Weeks of Bees. The second installment is now up. With her kind permission, I shall post the same here every Tuesday, so check back tomorrow for the second part of Miss Russell’s tale. Think of this as a serial short story.
Read MoreFirst Draft to Proof: The Language of Bees (2)
We’re posting the actual first pages of The Language of Bees, as an illustration of the rewrite process. Yesterday’s first draft has become today’s final proof page (if you have trouble reading this image or yesterday’s, just try clicking on it):
Read MoreFirst Draft to Proof: The Language of Bees (1)
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to post what you can regard either as terrible teasers, or as lessons in the writing process, depending on how desperate you are for the book. These are the actual ms pages of The Language of Bees, the original sheets that came out of my printer, with scribbles.…
Read MoreBees old and new
During the Fifteen Weeks project, some of my Muttering will be done elsewhere. Such as this week’s guest blog over at Bookish Ruth, in which I talk about writing Russell. Do join us there, but do come back later this week when I give the first taste of The Language of Bees.
Read MoreMary Russell’s Blog.
(Mary Russell posts on her Myspace blog every Monday during the Fifteen Weeks of Bees. With her kind permission, I shall post the same here every Tuesday. Think of this as a serial short story.) 1. Hard as it is to believe, fifteen years have passed since Ms Laurie King published—under her name—the first volume…
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