A last group of Garment of Shadows ARCs will go out to ten people on the newsletter mailing list. We’ll do the drawing on Tuesday, so if you’re not signed up for the newsletter, you might like to drop in on the web site and stick your name here. Good luck!
Read MoreNow, I know your To Be Read pile is already teetering and/or your e-reader is choking on its contents, but this one is special. It’s a book of books. John Connolly and Declan Burke came up with the idea of “The world’s greatest mystery writers on the world’s greatest mystery novels,” and although I am…
Read MoreFirst of all, I want it to evoke the book without giving away the plot. (Garment of Shadows: young woman in Western clothes gazes at a vaguely North African landscape: check.) Then, it needs to catch the eyes from across a crowded bookstore—or as a 2” version on a screen. (Rich glow of color; a…
Read MoreIf a picture is worth a thousand words, then Laurie’s Pinterest boards are a novel in themselves. See what Russell sees as she walks through the Fez medina, buys a meal, drinks mint tea…
Read MoreThanks to everyone who sent in a comment over the last ten days—and congratulations to the winners (although Betsy Chamberlin and Elizabeth Copley, you might want to check your email if you’d like an ARC because we haven’t heard from you yet!) And actually, I apologize for inflicting the task of a daily comment on…
Read MoreLeave a comment on today’s Mutterings for a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Among other oddities of this extraordinary country, Morocco was part of the Roman empire. As Hadrian’s Wall, between England and Scotland, marked the northern point of Rome’s West, the city of Volubilis occupied its south-western fringes.…
Read MoreLeave a comment on today’s Mutterings for a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Fez remains a walled city, as it was in 1924 when Russell and Holmes walked its streets, as it was for the centuries before that. Cars are kept out by the high adobe bricks, the population…
Read MoreLeave a comment on today’s Mutterings, and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. One of the fascinating things about Fez is the way the crafts of everyday life are created where they are used: need a shirt, a chair, a bowl? They’re still made down the street,…
Read MoreLeave a comment on today’s Mutterings post, and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. When a town’s streets are about as far apart as a tall man’s spread fingertips, there’s not much scope for wheeled traffic. Bits of Fez are open enough for cars, but for most…
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