The “Mrs Hudson’s Case” Illustrations Contest closes on May 5. This story about Sherlock Holmes’ landlady-turned-housekeeper needs pictures—and to encourage you, I have 15 shiny new ARCs of Riviera Gold that I’ll give in a random drawing to those who entered the contest—and, the winners whose pictures end up in the Illustrated Edition will also get a signed hardback when it comes out in June.
Download “Mrs Hudson’s Case” (along with the contest instructions) from the Mary Russell’s War page, here. Choose a scene or person, put together your vision of it, and get it to me by Monday night. Her kitchen table? Her sewing case? A batch of rock cakes…?
The Illustrated Mrs Hudson
The 2020
“Mrs. Hudson’s Case”
Illustration Contest
My US publisher has managed to stick an extra carton of the galleys for Rivera Gold onto a truck for me, which means I can give them away–yay!
So let’s do this:
15 copies of the Riviera Gold ARC
In a random drawing for those who enter the contest
(Winners, as planned earlier, get a signed hardback in June…
AND the ARC now!)
Riviera Gold is all about Mrs Hudson and what she did after The Murder of Mary Russell (Did you hear that the e-book is only $1.99? Click here for links.) So I thought it would be fun to revisit her first adventure, giving away a short story I wrote way back in 1997. Which has some intriguing insights into the landlady’s true character…
Here’s one of the early submissions:
Any illustration will do: collage, drawing, oil painting, a photo of her tea setting, a recipe for her rock cakes—whatever appears in the story is fair game. Scan it, send it, we’ll choose a few of the illustrations to make The Illustrated Mrs Hudson’s Case. And so it’s worth your while, 15 submissions will get an ARC, plus winners will get an ARC and a signed hardback of Riviera Gold in June. Sound good? Closes May 5, so:
Get art-ing!
The story, with the contest instructions, are at the top of the page, here.
Contests & Giveaways All Over the Place!
We have contest winners!
The giveaway of ALL the Russell & Holmes books–
is now closed. [Sorry!] But the lucky winners are:
…of a signed copy of the US edition of Island of the Mad:
David K.
Elisabeth Simer
Esther Bolick
John Gourhan
…and of the Grand Prize Fab Collection of Riches:
Jean Utley!
Plus that, there will be 25 copies of Island of the Mad going out to Goodreads folk, so yay Penguin Random House!
And the other contest, for Brits!
Today’s the last day to enter this UK-only contest of books-with-biscuits! Toss your name into the virtual hat via Facebookor Twitter. And no, you don’t have to share your biscuits with the rest of us.
But… I didn’t win!?!
I’m very sorry about that. But really, it’s okay, you can still get a book on June 12, it’s just that you’ll have to trade some of your hard-earned cash for it.
Go here for your very own copy of Island of the Mad:
US edition—signed, from Poisoned Pen Booksor Bookshop Santa Cruz
Signed (as tip-in pages) from Barnes & Noble
Fromyour local Indie;from Amazon/Kindle;from Barnes & Noble/Nook.
UK edition—from Allison & Busby;from my friends at Heffer’s.
Or the audio download here.
Giveaway
(Two weeks to the Island pub date!)
These are your last days to put your name down for the giveaway of ALL the Russell & Holmes books. All of them…
The drawing is on Friday, June 1. Go here to put your name down. And good luck!
Contest entry
For any of you who missed the newsletter last week, and who would like to enter a drawing for these…
(minus the masks) the link to that newsletter is here. You’ll need to enter before June 1.
Good luck!
Giving it away…
There’s a contest coming up! Well, we call it a contest, more of a giveaway. Details are in this Saturday’s newsletter (signup’s here if you’re not a subscriber) for a chance at all the Russell & Holmes hardbacks. All of them. Signed. In US hardback.
Hashtag #islandofthemad.
ISLAND winners!
Congratulations, Island of the Mad bound-galley winners!
Winners for the jigsaw-puzzle drawing are: Kimberly Kummer, Jack McKinney, Teresa D., Sabine Schreiner, and Lisa Woods.
More contests to come!
(And you’re not signed up for the newsletter, where we announce these things, you might want to do so now: https://laurierking.com/blog/)
Jigsaw Venice
To mark the three-month countdown to Island of the Mad, and to give away a few of the bound galleys my publisher sent me–
–we’re running a contest admirably suited to a book set in Venice: a jigsaw puzzle.
Venice is a tightly-fitted set of pieces literally built up in the marshy lagoon over many centuries. And Team LRK has done another map for this book, as we did for Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies, and others. The puzzle is of that map.
And it’s online.
That’s right, an e-jigsaw puzzle. 
Don’t worry, it’s only 35 pieces. You click-and-drag the pieces into place (literally–they click when they go together. Isn’t that fun?) Here’s what you do:
- Go here.
- Do the puzzle, on a computer or mobile device.
- When you’re finished, either click the share in the right-hand corner, then embed, and drag the final image onto an email—OR just send me an email telling me the three sections of map—I, II, and III— according to the key. Either way, email your answer to: info@laurierking.com
Feel free to share on social media—#islandofthemad.
The contest closes March 19, when we’ll draw five names from the correct entries.
Enjoy your puzzle!
Maryorama winners!
The Maryorama is finished, polished, and will be up soonon YouTube. But in the meantime–our Maryorama contest has its winners!
The Grand Prize Winner—with a complete set of Russells coming her way—is a lovely depiction of Justice Hall with the rays of the sun falling on it, a subtle digital image by:
Katie Olson
First runner-up (a set of the posters done by Team LRK) for her charming Holmes & Russell on a hillside, is:
Susan Echaore-McDavid
Six runners up (who get an assortment of the smaller-sized posters from what we used to call the Illustrated Russell & Holmes) are:
Gloria Gonzalez
Linda
Sara Phillips
Charlie Shene
Rebecca Turner
Tarryn Vavrushka
All the panels I got are fabulous, and look AMAZING in the final version. So happy about it!!
And I should say that these images, as well as the ones in the original Russellscape (plus a few that arrived a bit late for our video guy to incorporate) will eventually appear with their credits on the Maryorama page on the web site (here.)
But watch this space VERY SOON for:
Maryorama
The Travels of Russell & Holmes
Mary-o-prizes
Two days left to win!
GRAND PRIZE: a complete set of Russell & Holmes paperbacks,
including Mary Russell’s War & other stories
*
FIRST RUNNER-UP: Four full-sized illustrated broadsheets
*
FIVE RUNNERS-UP: a collection of art from
“The Illustrated Russell & Holmes”
For instructions, go here. And–work fast!