Posts by Laurie King
Oxford Story Museum
A quick reminder: the penultimate library drawing for a Russell Book Club in a Box will be tomorrow, so if your library holds book clubs and if you haven’t sent us their name already, do so now by clicking here. * * I was in England recently, and spent a spectacularly lovely day in Oxford,…
Read MoreContest of wits–and heart
The contest is heating up! AND NOW WITH A SPECIAL RUNNER-UP EDITION! (SEE BELOW!) “How The Beekeeper’s Apprentice Changed my Life.” or: “When I First Met Mary Russell, She…” Drawing, essay, short story, poem. Video, embroidered pillow, decorated cake—though if it’s perishable, big, or even just beloved, why not just send in some photographs? The…
Read MoreRussell in the UK
All the Russells are now in the UK! Laurie’s British publisher, the fabulous Allison & Busby, has finally completed the list of Mary Russell novels in beautiful new paperback covers.
Read MoreA Venomous Companion
We are celebrating two decades of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice with a brand new Companion volume, which answers many questions and, I fear, raises others regarding Miss Russell and her world. Much of the material is either newly written or published for the first time. For example, several short stories that were written for other purposes… A…
Read MoreReader talent wins!
Every year, LRK—and her readers!—celebrate National Library Week and our love for libraries with a contest. The theme of 2012 was “Thrills in the Stacks”. 2013 (LRK’s 20th anniversary as a writer) was, “If a Martian asked me what a ‘library’ was…” (That fabulous winning story, by our own fabulous Sabrina We-Knew-Her-When Flynn) is…
Read MoreDoyle’s locked rooms?
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 MoreThe Great 2014 Library Giveaway…
…continues, with four cartons of Mary Russell books left to award in our Book Club in A Box giveaway. If you have a library a) that you love and b) that hosts book clubs, and if you haven’t sent us their name yet, do so now. Email it to me at: info@laurierking.com The next drawing…
Read MoreSmall businesses
This is Small Business Week, celebrating American entrepreneurs. Which makes for a nice irony, in that the business practices of Amazon against Hachette books has recently come to light. I am not published by Hachette, but many of my friends are, and many of the books on my shelves come from that house. However, contract…
Read MoreLaurie’s wanders
I’m moving around England, using research as an excuse for seeing something of this gorgeous May countryside. Yesterday I walked all over Oxford, finding one new museum and another one that has closed down, leaving only a vestige in the corner of the Town Hall. Also bookstores, of course. I have been staying in the…
Read MorePensive Nights & Laborious Days
Sherlock Holmes admits to Watson that his book on beekeeping is “the fruit of pensive nights and laborious days”. Now, I would not dare to compare my own modest efforts with those of The Master, however, The Mary Russell Companion (an ebook) is indeed the result of pensive evenings and hard-working daylight hours. Many of…
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