Q: ‘e2’80’9cCousin Robin’e2’80’9d writes–Seeing that photo of you and your husband with the Dalai Lama has me wondering whether you have been influenced by the intrepid explorer, pioneer feminist and theologian – Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969). This extraordinary woman might have been a role model for Mary Russell. Disguised as a beggar, with a revolver concealed…

Okay, friends, I’e2’80’99ve got enough questions here to keep me busy for the next month or two, let’e2’80’99s save any others for April, okay? Thanks. Q: Karen asks: Now for a nit-picky question from a former academic: In MRW, Mary is abducted on her way to Oxford to present a paper with Duncan. Does she…

It’s the first of March, so let’s open the floor to questions.

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The March edition of the LRK quarterly newsletter will go out next week, and in case you’e2’80’99re not a subscriber, I should mention that one of the things it talks about is, we’e2’80’99re giving away ARCs. That’e2’80’99s right, throughout March and April, I’e2’80’99ll be giving away one copy of the bound galleys of THE ART…

My readers in the UK may be pleased to hear that, beginning with THE ART OF DETECTION on August 22 and picking up a fair number of the backlist along the way, I will be published by Poisoned Pen Press U.K. I’e2’80’99m really looking forward to working with them, not only because they’e2’80’99re great people…

Inertia has two effects: in one, a kid on wheels going downhill will continue moving fast even when no longer going downhill–indeed, even when there’s a tree in his way. In the second, a kid lying motionless on the ground takes some doing to get moving again. A while back I wrote about the first…

This past week my first stand-alone novel, A DARKER PLACE (or in the UK, THE BIRTH OF A NEW MOON) was the topic of discussion for a group of MFA writing students from the Whidby Island Writing Association. The students would post comments on various topics, I would read them each day and post remarks…

The other night driving back from movie-and-sushi with a friend (‘e2’80’9cMrs. Henderson Presents’e2’80’9d’e2’80’94great movie, although much of the humor was too British for Santa Cruz) I got stuck behind a truck of beehives. Yes, spring is coming. The early flowers are out here, boosted by a week of weirdly summery weather (80 degrees, in February?)…

For reasons unrelated to much of anything, I needed to send what I have of TOUCHSTONE to my editor this week. I don’t normally give her–or anyone–a look until a ms is finished, but this one is feeling so strong to me I figured it couldn’t hurt the process any. So I did and she…