Riviera Gold events

Well, this has been a week. Ten days ago, I wrote a post here about pouring bronze (a key element in Riviera Gold) but when I went to do a follow-up, marking a week before the publication date, well… I wrote about it on my newsletter this week (here, if you didn’t see it) so…

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Happy (?) Banned Books Week

Happy (yes!) Banned Books Week (and the Future of Democracy) September 23-29 is Banned Books Week from the American Library Association, with this year’s theme of “Banning Books Silences Stories.” My local library, in Santa Cruz, asked me to contribute to their video collection of local readers talking about a favorite banned book. And I…

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Island of the Mad launches!

Today is MAD! Island of the Mad launches today, so shove your way through the doors of your local Indie, or get on the horn to The Great Brazilian River or your favorite online retailer, and snag a copy (I’ve put the links below.) We had a fabulous pre-launch launch in Scottsdale, with Charleston lessons… and…

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Portland, I’m coming!

Today I get to play at Powell’s, that extensive shrine to the printed word. This is the downtown store, at 2:00 this afternoon. Do join me–details are here.  

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Seattle Friday

I’m having such fun with this book tour, I think I’ll set off up the coast today and drop by the Seattle Mystery Bookshop, then swing past the University bookstore, before ending up with a reading and talk at the great Third Place Books. Come and join us!

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Dressing the part of Murder

One of my favorite times on the recent tour for Murder of Mary Russell was the launch, when friends near and far gathered to celebrate the publication–and to admire the amazing donning of Victorian garb by Caroline Bellios, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Fashion and assistant director of the Fashion Resource Center at SAIC. I got in…

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An everyday god on the road

As you probably know, I’ve been on the road since last Tuesday, talking about The Murder of Mary Russell in a variety of bookstores, tea shops, and even an opera house. During that time, I’ve also been listening to the talk about it, in person and on Facebook, and I’m so very happy that you’ve…

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Contest ending…

Tomorrow is the last day to get me your entries for the obituary/headstone contest, so I have a chance to judge them AND SEND YOU YOUR COPIES OF THE HARDBACK BOOK… …and one of you an iPad mini (sweet!) before I take off on next week’s (!) book tour (whee–check out the cities here.) So if you’re…

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For Murder, that’s the ticket!

Murder will be on tour—or at any rate, its author will be—in just a few weeks. And because I’d hate for my faithful followers (that’s you) to get left out, I wanted to point out that some of the events are ticketed. A couple of these are venues that asked me and agreed to wait…

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Road trip with Laurie! (and a Murdered Mary?)

So here’s me, from April 5 until April 15:The Murder of Mary Russell will launch at the amazing and wonderfully warm Anderson’s Books (yay!) in Naperville (near Chicago.) They hosted an event for me a year ago—and made a great video interview. So when I learned that I’d be passing through Chicago, I brought forward my bowl to…

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