BoucherCon is underway! We started with a meeting over coffee and fruit with a dozen or so Friends of Laurie, went on to a quick round of handshakes at the newbies’ breakfast (those new to BoucherCon’, not new to LRK) and then got waylaid by the popping up of friends–Val McDermid and Meg Gardiner and…
Read MoreI hope you enjoyed the past days of BoucherCon memories? Well, today I’m off to San Francisco to make some new ones. I hope to see a lot of you there, but for those of you who can’t make it, here’s a gift for your virtual BoucherCon book bag: During the five days of BoucherCon,…
Read More…but of all the BoucherCons up to 2010, my favorite has to be Monterey, in 1997. Because it was in my backyard, and I had a new house, I held a housewarming party, for 100 good friends, with beer and burritos. People drove up, people stopped off on their way down the coast, people came…
Read More(BoucherCon San Francisco starts in three days—take a look at the schedule, and you can always get day passes. Here’s another memory from a BoucherCon past.) Seattle, BoucherCon 1994, had some sun. Not LA-in-summer type sun, but still—I’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest, and I know what a treasure blue skies are in October. I…
Read More(BoucherCon 2010 starts in San Francisco four days from now—you can still register, or get day passes. In the meantime, I’m posting a handful of memories from BoucherCons [BouchersCon?] past.) I’m a third generation Californian—northern Californian. I have never been closer to Disneyland than the drop-off outside, I have only been to Yosemite twice, and…
Read More(BoucherCon 2010 starts Thursday in San Francisco—you can still register, or get day passes, including for Saturday when I am on a panel talking about that Holmes fellow. In the meantime, I’m posting a few BCon memories.) BoucherCon 2001 took place in Washington, DC. A city reeling from the September 11 attack on the Pentagon,…
Read More(BoucherCon starts Thursday in San Francisco—you can still register, or get day passes, including for Friday when I am grilled—er, interviewed by Dana Stabenow. I’ll post in the days leading up to BCon with memories about BCons past.) “Are you a writer?” Um, well. This was 1990, in London, and although I had been writing…
Read MoreBuildup to BoucherCon continues with: A Mary Russell Companion. Wheee! An ebook! Gorgeous, clever, and months in the making—free, for Friends of Russell. Send it to friends, scatter it about the countryside, link to it, all that stuff. Have fun with it. Lots of us sure did, in making it.
Read MoreIn my new-found identity as an official Sherlockian (BSI investiture: “The Red Circle”) I’ve been talking to über-Sherlockian Les Klinger about a couple of projects. One of them is a touch specialized, although I’ll be posting about it closer to its pub date. But the other is going to be such a blast, I have…
Read MoreWell, looky here: Mary Russell has a new home.
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