Posts by Laurie King
Mystery & Thriller Throwdown!
Fabulous event coming on Saturday, an afternoon of crime, at Kepler’s in Menlo Park, CA: Mysteries & Thrillers, at each others’ throats. Ten great writers (or anyway, nine and me) getting down and dirty about crime–the list of writers is here, and this is the program: 1:00 The “Rules” of the Publishing Game: The Times…
Read MoreFlowering welcome
It’s no secret that I have a weakness for odd plants. And a while ago I posted images of my front entrance, the thing that sold me on the house from my first step in the front door. But the house still manages to surprise me. When I got back from a trip to England…
Read MoreA Green Companion
Among other things, The Mary Russell Companion offers back-story for the dramatis personae of the Memoirs, including the quizzical Mr Goodman of The God of the Hive. Not that we can ever know quite how the man came to be as he was, but a previously unpublished short-short story, “The Birth of a Green Man”, appears…
Read MoreThe Russell & Holmes house?
In the twenty years since The Beekeeper’s Apprentice introduced Mary Russell to the world, many questions have been raised about the good lady, and about her relationship with Sherlock Holmes, her religious beliefs, her Oxford college, what kind of car she drives—and just where on the Sussex Downs is that house of hers, anyway? In a fervent…
Read MoreAnd the winners are…
We have had (for those of you with short attention spans and/or memory loss) two contests celebrating both April’s National Library Week and Mary Russell’s 20th birthday (Miss Russell’s popularity over this score of years also owing much to the enthusiasm of libraries.) The first celebration was Book Club in a Box, weekly drawings of Russell…
Read MoreLives Change @ Mary Russell
Today’s your last day to tell me “How The Beekeeper’s Apprentice Changed my Life” or: “When I First Met Mary Russell, She…” This year’s celebration of libraries, whose theme for National Library Week this year has been: Lives Change @ Your Library. (And yes, there will be Extra Points Given for a mention of libraries…
Read MoreRussell: a Mary Sue?
The Mary Russell Companion is many things to many people: research tool (What year did “Mrs Hudson’s Case” take place?); source of amusement (Fernando Pessoa, pirate!); extended, free-form Laurie R. King novel (gasp: the Memoirs, fiction? Never!). Tirade against accusers..? A Protest: Russell and the Mary Sues Since the Memoirs first began to appear,…
Read MoreBeekeeper, renewed!
Today we’re celebrating twenty years of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, when Mary Russell was introduced to the world and her “author” (or—editor?) Laurie R. King encountered the joys and madness of a fan community. Yes, I’m talking about you guys. Today also marks the sale date for the gorgeous new Picador hardback: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Twentieth Anniversary…
Read MoreThe Annotated Beekeeper
Tomorrow, Picador books publishes the shiny new Twentieth Anniversary edition of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, with a new foreword by yours truly (author, or editor?? Only Mary Russell knows for sure…) To mark the day, I’m giving you a sample of the annotated Beekeeper’s Apprentice from my own electronic volume, The Mary Russell Companion. When I was…
Read MoreLaurie and Anne Perry, in conversation?
After a slow beginning, this next twelvemonth is heating up when it comes to events. June 29030, ALA conference, Las Vegas. I’m sitting the Sisters in Crime booth Sunday, then talking to Sherlockians and at the Author Tea on Monday. If you’re a librarian, I’ll see you there! July 24-27, in Corte Madera, the Book…
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