No matter what goes on here on the ground, looking up is always spectacular. Even without a super-moon.
Read MoreThe last two blog posts I’ve talked about shock and its treatment. I’ve been incredibly moved by the comments you’ve posted. Has any other election ever brought a reaction like this? Sure I felt depressed when Bush was handed the election by the Supreme Court, and angry, but weeping? Terror? No. As Joyce, living overseas, says…
Read MorePart of my recovery process the day after the election was pottering in the sun. I had several long-neglected pots of Christmas cactus, that had got badly choked with grass and oxalis. Some weeks ago (okay, months) I’d bought a long wooden planter intending to put them all in that. Also, of course, by now…
Read MoreI spent yesterday in recovery, as much of the country did. Watching the television Tuesday night felt like watching the plane go into the towers on 9/11: shock and disbelief and a terrible knowledge that somewhere, there were people watching that same horror and celebrating. And before you rise up in indignation, no, I am…
Read MoreDirty tricks and October Surprises are nothing new. Four days before the 1924 general election, the conservative Daily Mail published a letter they claimed was written by a senior Russian Communist (Grigorii Zinoviev) to the British Communist Party. These were their headlines: The letter made it clear that the socialist Labour government were little more…
Read MoreAnother typically dashing cover from my English publishers, Allison & Busby: Their e-book edition will be out the first part of November, with the print to follow in the spring. What do you think?
Read MoreI’ve been talking about the next book for a while now, using its working title, Career Day. And the name was fine as a place holder, but not exactly enticing, or even terribly descriptive other than giving an idea of what was going on at the school where the story is set. But it now has a name. Ready?…
Read MoreTwo days left to win! GRAND PRIZE: a complete set of Russell & Holmes paperbacks, including Mary Russell’s War & other stories * FIRST RUNNER-UP: Four full-sized illustrated broadsheets * FIVE RUNNERS-UP: a collection of art from “The Illustrated Russell & Holmes” For instructions, go here. And–work fast!
Read More[A letter, to those of you who don’t see my News.] I’m not sure if you, my dear Friends and Readers, have all just been super busy with the new academic year, or too swept up in the election to focus on anything but else, but the deadline is fast approaching for a contest that…
Read MoreMore teasing tidbits from Echoes of Sherlock Holmes. Understudy in Scarlet by Hallie Ephron It’s not an open casting call, Angela Cassano realizes as she takes in the emptiness of director Glenn Lancaster’s outer office. The gloomy space, on the second floor over storefronts on Santa Monica in Beverly Hills, has rough stucco walls painted…
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