Tuesdays of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz are given over to a look at each of my twenty novels, a week at a time, giving some tidbit of information or background about the book. This week, The Game, published in 2004. Click on the photos to enlarge. Kipling’s Kim is one of my all-time favorite…
Read MoreNational Library Week is coming, and I want to know your fantasies. No, not that kind—the real ones, the important ones. The fantasy of the absolute, ultimate, perfect ideal of a library. It can be a public library or your personal space, large or small, vast or intimate, dim or bright, wood or glass—this is…
Read MoreThe fourth excerpt for The God of the Hive is here. (The book itself is available on April 27.) For those curious about the writing and rewriting process, each excerpt has been followed by a brief explanation of the changes made. As always, I take care to avoid major spoilers, but anyone wishing to preserve…
Read MoreAs you may know, I’m currently in Lisbon working hard on the next Russell and Holmes novel—although I’ll be flitting northwards in the time zone this afternoon, to join the intrepid duo for a party in their Sussex cottage, where I hope you’ll join us: the party is set up on Twitterfall.com/#hivegod (All Tweets should…
Read MoreThe final excerpt of The God of the Hive (only a month to go until pub date!) is up (via the book page), in which Mary Russell hides behind milk canisters, and meets a gun. Come back here to Mutterings in two days for my comments on the rewrite process of this chapter, and a…
Read MoreA series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
Read MoreThe winners of this week’s contests are… For last week’s puzzle contest, Marc B. won the prize, a mini-broadside of “A Venomous Death.” Send in your solution to this week’s puzzle for your chance to win! Shawn S. won this week’s Goodreads drawing. Over at the Virtual Book Club, we had quite a few winners…
Read MoreThis is week thirteen of this spring’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz, when each Tuesday I post remarks about the background of one of the twenty books. This week, Keeping Watch, published in 2003. I wanted to write a man. Often the seed of one of my books is something that only has significance for me:…
Read MoreWe’ve had quite the puzzling time of it during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, with a total of five brain twisters provided by a few clever fans. This week is your last chance to match wits with our Twenty Weeks puzzles, so head over to the puzzle page and download this week’s Bee-fore and After…
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