Laurie’s busy year: an annual report

2011 has been a busy year.  A ridiculously busy year.  A year so nuts, it has forced me to declare 2012 The Year of No.  Meaning that if you’re about to ask me to write a short story, participate in a seminar, or show up at your festival, I can only say that if you’re…

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Twinterview

The complete text of the Twitter Inteview between Les Klinger and Mary Russell has been posted on Miss Russell’s home page.  Interestingly enough, the publishers also managed to get it between the covers of A Study in Sherlock, with extraordinary quickness. And if you scroll down a post. you’ll see Charles Todd’s reflections on Holmes’…

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Klinger v. Russell: who will win?

 I understand that Les Klinger is trying to get Mary Russell to submit to an interview about A Study in Sherlock, over on Twitter. (The hashtag is #ASinS, or just go here for his query, then her responses.)  I wonder if he’ll succeed in enticing her to agree?  She’s not proved terribly cooperative with past interviews…

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Cotterill’s Kung Fu Sherlock

A Study in Sherlock, the superest anthology of the fall season, goes on sale October 24th.  Several of the authors have written posts for the Study in Sherlock blog, which we’ll be posting over the next few days.  Also exciting is my co-editor Les Klinger’s Twitter interview (Twinterview?) with Mary Russell, beginning next week.  First…

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All Sherlock, all the time

Eleven months ago, I went to New York and came home with a Secret Handshake and a Code Name. Well, actually I went to the annual dinner of the Baker Street Irregulars and was given the great and unexpected honor of being made an Irregular (investiture name: “The Red Circle.”  Which is a Conan Doyle…

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