If, as Kurt Vonnegut declares, unusual travel invitations are dancing lessons from God, then the invites have been running hot this week. Wednesday’s memorable seder was followed by last night’s…reading? at the Make-Out Room in San Francisco. Minal Hajratwala’s memories of her Indian family, Stacie Boschma’s slam reading that was the very definition of performance…
Read MoreI went to a seder on Wednesday with my new family—the family my daughter married into—and found it…unlike other seders I’d been to. Sing to the tune of “Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”: Just a tad of haroset helps the bitter herbs go down, The bitter herbs go down, the…
Read MoreThe world ended today, here in Santa Cruz County. Vandals cut through several fiber optic cables and dumped a hefty patch of Northern California into the 1980s. Tens of thousands of people were completely cut off from the world. Computers did not communicate, cell phones went silent, land lines hummed with the noise of desperate…
Read MoreI’m still over at Bitten by Books this morning, if there’s something you just always wanted to ask LRK and didn’t have the chance. And they’re giving away a bunch of books–great contests there. And, a reminder that on Saturday I’m with Pam Houston, Stacie Boschma, Sean Stewart, Regina Lynn, and Minal Hajratwala in San Francisco’s Make Out…
Read MoreSome days I am normal. Others I am a tad paranormal. Today is one of the latter. I’m taking questions and comments over at the ever-thrilling Bitten By Books today, and it will probably spill over onto tomorrow morning, in case your thinking process is delayed. Please join us, read the BbB/LRK interview, and throw…
Read MoreIt’s been a week since we announced this, and we’re a quarter of the way up our goal for the Heifer International fundraiser. So I’ll say again: If you want to name a character (you, your mother, your cat) in the next Russell & Holmes, The Green Man, here’s your chance: just donate two or…
Read MoreWe’re racing now into week ten of the Fifteen Weeks—two thirds of the way through the celebration, and only 22 days until The Language of Bees goes on sale and LRK hits the road! And it being a Monday, that means Miss Russell is posting over on her Myspace blog, where she and Holmes…
Read MoreThanks to the untiring efforts of web maven Vicki and the generosity of Picador Press, from now until tax day you can download a free e-book of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice over at TheBeeisFree.com. Enjoy, tell all your friends, download it onto its various machines, and let us know how you like this. I’m not at…
Read MoreAs I may have happened to mention a few hundred times, I adore libraries. I grew up in libraries, libraries snatched up most of the first printing of A Grave Talent, and I revel in my local university’s research library. The Game was dedicated: To the librarians everywhere, who spend their lives in battle against the…
Read MoreTwenty-seven days until The Language of Bees buzzes across the land. Laurie is not really here (Jedi hand wave across the screen.) This is not the LRK you’re looking for. It’s a blog tour day, so she’s over at the blog Jungle Red, talking to fellow writer Roberta Isleib about Russell and Holmes and…well, lots of…
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