Contests
God of the Hive giveaway
Random House is doing a quickie giveaway of God of the Hive ARCs over here at Goodreads. If you aren’t a Goodreads member, it’s quite easy to become one, and there are 75 copies of the book being given away. Unfortunately, the contest is currently scheduled to close at midnight Sunday–sorry about the late notification.
Read More20 Weeks of…colouring books?
Week eight of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz: Monday we say hello (Hi there!) while the Virtual Book Club gets into the meat of Folly. Tuesday I post a blog about writing A Darker Place and then jump on a plane for Scottsdale, where Dana Stabenow is having a Poisoned Pen Party to launch A…
Read MorePuzzling permutations
Just a weekend note, to mention that this week’s puzzle was such a stumper there haven’t been many answers submitted–so if you want to try again, your chances of winning a copy of “A Venomous Death” are pretty good. The puzzles page is here, and remember, it’s a matter of turnabout is fair play. Or…
Read MoreThursday thoughts
Congratulations to Lori D. in Redwood City and Bruce C. of Stratham New Hampshire, in the sun and in the snow, who won copies of “A Venomous Death” for their brilliant jobs in, well, joining into the Twenty Weeks of Buzz fun—Lori read her newsletter and Bruce is on Goodreads. Enjoy the Further Adventures of…
Read MoreThursday thrills
Two exciting new projects in the LRK e-universe, at pretty opposite ends of some kind of spectrum: an app and a coloring book. The app is for iPhones, and you can get yours here. It’s still in its infancy, but I am assured that it will be Terribly Useful and will contain All Kinds of…
Read MoreWelcome to week six
What do Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Helene Hanff, Dorothy Sayers, and Laurie King have in common? Apart from the obvious, of course? Maybe the titles will nudge your memory: Dracula. Frankenstein. 84 Charing Cross Road. What about, The Documents in the Case (got it now?) And “A Case in Correspondence.” The short story unfolding at…
Read MoreTwenty Weeks of Russell: Week 5
What’s this I see? Mary Russell has a new post over on her MySpace page? Episodes of “A Case in Correspondence” will appear there Wednesdays throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, and this week you can find them here at Mutterings on Thursday. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock…
Read MoreWeek five of twenty
These “Twenty Weeks of Buzz” make for an interesting exploration of the Brave New World of Internet outreach. In some ways it feels as if I’m running my own corporation here: producing the product (ie, a book) then packaging and promoting it. In part, this sensation of do-it-yourself is because publishing houses run in seasons…
Read MorePuzzle with answers
Here is this week’s puzzle with answers. I hope you enjoyed the game — a winner will be announced here in the next day or two! Thanks to John for his puzzling prowess (certainly puzzling to me!)
Read MoreWhat Sherlock Holmes means to…
Winner of this week’s contest on “What Sherlock Holmes means to me” is Elizabeth Burden. Elizabeth Burden was introduced to Sherlock Holmes at 12 when her father began reading the ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’ out loud to her at bedtime: she retrieved it after her parents went to bed and stayed up all night to…
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