Contests
It’s all a puzzle
We’ve had quite the puzzling time of it during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, with a total of five brain twisters provided by a few clever fans. This week is your last chance to match wits with our Twenty Weeks puzzles, so head over to the puzzle page and download this week’s Bee-fore and After…
Read MoreAnd the winners are…
The winners of this week’s drawings are: Goodreads winner (mini-broadside): Georgia O. Feb. 27 newsletter drawing winner (of a God of the Hive ARC): Amanda L. Sign up here for a chance to win your own this month! Twitter winner (of a mini-broadside): Ana S. from Portugal And the one you’ve all been waiting for……
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Week Twelve
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 on Fridays you can find them here at Mutterings. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up…
Read MoreSherlock puzzles
We had a gratifying number of entries into last week’s “Sherlockism” contest–while I’m mulling them over, you might like to look at them yourself and see if there are any that catch your imagination. (My choice will probably go up mid-week, so you have a couple of days.) And when your grey cells have been…
Read MoreThe happening place
I’m in Los Angeles for Left Coast Crime, the mystery conference for the country’s looser nuts. It doesn’t begin until this afternoon, which leaves me a few hours to frantically catch up on work. And to write a blog telling about how I’m frantically catching up on work, which seems like cheating, somehow. In any…
Read MoreIt’s raining Sherlockisms!
The Sherlockism is a pithy turn of phrase as favored by Mr Sherlock Holmes: * “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” * “I saw no one.” “That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.” * “I believe that you are the devil himself!” he cried. Holmes smiled at the compliment.…
Read MoreOnline & up and down the Coast
We’ve had some absolutely fantabulous entries into the Russellscape project this week, you can see them at the bottom of the home page, here, where you’ll also find a link to the instructions for doing one of your own—come on, get those pencils/paints/scissors-and-glue going! We’ve also had an amazing, gorgeous Illustrated MyStory that we’ll post…
Read MoreA Puzzling event, Watson
P U Z Z L E U Z Z L E X C E L L E N T …….R …….O …….S …….S …….W …….O …….R …….DO IT HERE AND WIN A PRIZE That’s right, the wicked puzzler Marjorie has set another crossword, to eat up your hours between now and the end of…
Read MoreSparks of pleasure
Yesterday I mailed out three copies of the small “A Venomous Death” to winners from the newsletter list, Goodreads, and Twitter. Three happy people—Elena, Janice, and someone whose name declares they will not make toast—will get a message from Russell in their mailbox this week. One of the side benefits of being a writer is…
Read MoreNine lads a-leaping?
Week nine of our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, with two items of interest: first, Saturday the newsletter goes out, we draw a name from those who open it for an ARC of The God of the Hive, and we post excerpt three of the book on the site—the first two excerpts can be seen here.…
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