This is Small Business Week, celebrating American entrepreneurs. Which makes for a nice irony, in that the business practices of Amazon against Hachette books has recently come to light. I am not published by Hachette, but many of my friends are, and many of the books on my shelves come from that house. However, contract…
Read MoreI’m moving around England, using research as an excuse for seeing something of this gorgeous May countryside. Yesterday I walked all over Oxford, finding one new museum and another one that has closed down, leaving only a vestige in the corner of the Town Hall. Also bookstores, of course. I have been staying in the…
Read MoreSherlock Holmes admits to Watson that his book on beekeeping is “the fruit of pensive nights and laborious days”. Now, I would not dare to compare my own modest efforts with those of The Master, however, The Mary Russell Companion (an ebook) is indeed the result of pensive evenings and hard-working daylight hours. Many of…
Read MoreWould you like a complete set of Mary Russell novels? You know, Mary Russell, whose first Memoir, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, was published twenty years ago this spring? What if they were the gorgeous UK Russells? And maybe, hardbacks? (I’ll even toss in the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, as well!) If you’d like this pile…
Read MoreThis week I: – Sent Dreaming Spies in to my editor, waited a day, and received back word that she adores it, that it’s the most perfect thing I’ve ever written, and that perhaps more to the point, she’s going to send me a check. – Finished my parts of The Mary Russell Companion, coming to…
Read MoreThe first week’s Library Giveaway of a Book Club in a Box goes to the LA system’s Pacific Palisades Library–which has its very own Mysterious Book Club! The library will get a whole box of Russells, as soon as they choose which title they want to read How about you–would your library like a box…
Read MoreI like to mix things up a little for my liturgical celebrations, so I made a Chinese recipe that actually would be great for Halloween: Then I deviled them, which interrupts the pretty surface a bit but made them quite tasty: They’re not hard to make. Thoroughly hard boil your eggs (I have best luck…
Read MoreThe first drawing for one library’s Book Club in a Box will be Friday. Have you nominated your favorite library for this book club’s worth of Russells? Send their name to info@laurierking.com with the subject line Library, and–good luck, this or the next six giveaways!
Read MoreAnd a very Happy National Library Week to you! The theme of this year’s American Library Association celebration is Lives change @ your library. So that’s what Team LRK is celebrating as well. As you must know by now, I love libraries. I use libraries by the cubic meter, by the hundredweight, by the hour. …
Read MoreI love odd plants. I’ve posted about my various odd housemates, of the vegetable variety, from time to time.Now another long-time inhabitant of a sunny window has sprouted some peculiar and quite unexpected blossoms. Who’d have guessed that something like this— would sprout into this— Life is full of such delightful surprises. (And in case…
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