The Russellscape is a series of images contributed by all you Friends of Russell (& Holmes), that literally comes together, creating a moving panorama of the duo’s travels. It’s the modern version of the Victorian card game called the myriorama. We’re doing a new Fun Stuff section of the web site with art, crossword puzzles, and a new Russellscape—or,…
Read MoreMary Russell’s War & Other Stories of Suspense comes out Tuesday! Nineteen years in the making, this is a collection of nine previously published short stories and one ALL! NEW! Sherlock Holmes mystery! (called *ahem* “Stately Holmes.” You can blame Barbara Peters for the title.) Also, an “Appreciation” of Miss Russell by one Leslie S. Klinger, my co-editor in three…
Read MoreSo a funny thing happened on the way to a Russellscape… Since changing over the web site a few months ago (if you haven’t seen it, take a look!) we’re been working on ways to bring over the impressive amount of fan art that’s accumulated in the old site. We’re also working on a renovation…
Read MoreThis just in from Publishers Weekly about (next month’s!) Echoes of Sherlock Holmes: King and Klinger’s strong third Sherlockian anthology (after 2014’s In the Company of Sherlock Holmes) features 17 stories from leading authors who draw on Conan Doyle’s work for inspiration. The end result is a rich variety of entries, including Tony Lee and Bevis Musson’s “Mrs.…
Read MoreThe first mystery conference I ever attended was in London, in 1990. At the time, I had a separate agent for the English/Commonwealth market, and she happened to mention that there was this conference that I might go to… Because it coincided with family stuff, I went. And found it interesting, and informative, and more…
Read MoreMWA NorCal joins forces with the Oakland library this Saturday for: Loving the Library If you’re a regular reader of Mutterings, you know that I love libraries. This Saturday, I get to interview Emily Weak, the adult services librarian at the Rockridge branch, about how writers and libraries make for a mutual admiration society. I’ll…
Read MoreHey, friends–I’m in the process of making a new web site with just that things on it that readers have contributed–the art, writing, crossword puzzles, etc that we’ve done in various contests and promos over the years, along with pieces that I’ve done for events and such. So my question for you is: what do we call…
Read MoreThere’s a bundle of Russells, waiting to slip into your e-reader or cell phone: It’s probably inevitable that the first book in any series is the biggest seller, even if readers loved it. Confronted with a list of a dozen titles, people tend to skip over numbers two through ten or so, I suppose because…
Read MoreThe Murder of Mary Russell is going for a rapid paddle down the Great Brazilian River today. Yes, a special offer. You get the whole book, all the words, for just $2.99 [STOP THE PRESSES IT SEEMS TO BE $1.99 WHEE!] (yeah, it’s the e-book and probably just the US, sorry) so you can tuck…
Read MoreOne of my favorite of the year’s mystery get-togethers is not a fan conference (although I love BoucherCon, and Left Coast Crime, and…) but one on the craft of writing. The Book Passage conference has a great track record with getting new writers published, and it’s a great place to meet your community, both in…
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