Over the next few weeks, I’m going to post what you can regard either as terrible teasers, or as lessons in the writing process, depending on how desperate you are for the book. These are the actual ms pages of The Language of Bees, the original sheets that came out of my printer, with scribbles.…
Read MoreDuring the Fifteen Weeks project, some of my Muttering will be done elsewhere. Such as this week’s guest blog over at Bookish Ruth, in which I talk about writing Russell. Do join us there, but do come back later this week when I give the first taste of The Language of Bees.
Read More(Mary Russell posts on her Myspace blog every Monday during the Fifteen Weeks of Bees. With her kind permission, I shall post the same here every Tuesday. Think of this as a serial short story.) 1. Hard as it is to believe, fifteen years have passed since Ms Laurie King published—under her name—the first volume…
Read MoreMy husband Noel died yesterday. Many of you were aware that he was ill for a very long time, following a 2006 stroke and then cancer diagnosis, and anyone who has had a loved one linger will understand that the sorrow is strongly colored with relief. It is odd, but somehow appropriate as well, to…
Read MoreMy so-clever daughter has become a webster, and we’re all new and shiny at the web site Fifteen Weeks of Bees! A Russellscape! Fun stuff! What do you think?
Read MoreWe’ll be talking (a lot!) about Fifteen Weeks of Bees here over the next, well, fifteen weeks, but to whet your taste for what’s going on, here are just two of its elements: Mary Russell video and Mary Russell on Twitter. I love my fans.
Read MoreISBN: 9780061690396 Few have crafted stories as haunting as those by Edgar Allan Poe. Collected here to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Poe’s birth are sixteen of his best tales accompanied by twenty essays from beloved authors, including T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Sara Paretsky, and Joseph Wambaugh, among others, on how Poe has changed…
Read MoreEdited by Dana Stabenow. ISBN-10: 0441016375 Introduction The House End Notes Commentary In the spring of 2006, the Santa Cruz County Parks and Recreation Department posted this notice: “On May 20, as part of her Artist of the Year Profile Performance, Laurie R. King will perform the high-wire writing act she calls Writer’s Improv: writing…
Read MoreISBN 978-0-553-80355-6 UK ISBN–978-1-84722-005-9 (May 2008) A touchstone is used to test the purity of precious metals. A man with such a test can control the value of gold. How much more could be controlled by a man with a human touchstone? It’s eight years after the Great War shattered Bennett Grey’s life, leaving him…
Read MoreVideo courtesy of Two Rock Media ISBN (US) 9780553804546 ISBN (UK) 9780749007911, published by Allison and Busby press In a case that will push their relationship to the breaking point, Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husband’s storied past—a painful and personal defeat that still has the power to sting…this…
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