Ebooks
This week I’ve…
This week I: – Sent Dreaming Spies in to my editor, waited a day, and received back word that she adores it, that it’s the most perfect thing I’ve ever written, and that perhaps more to the point, she’s going to send me a check. – Finished my parts of The Mary Russell Companion, coming to…
Read MoreRussell bundles, again!
My beloved Random House has an offer you…well, you can refuse if you like, they’re not that pushy. But it’s a really nice offer, for eight Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes novels, in celebration of Russell’s 20th anniversary. The titles run from O Jerusalem to Garment of Shadows, covering ground from 1919 Palestine to 1924 Morocco, with everything…
Read MoreRussell, bundled
To celebrate the 2oth anniversary of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Picador is selling a merry bundle– –of the first four Mary Russell e-books. That’s right, a special package deal with a sweetheart of a cover, with Beekeeper, Monstrous Regiment of Women, A Letter of Mary, and The Moor. Fill up your e-reader library, so you’re never again stuck…
Read MoreA Russell Companion!
Due May 1: The Mary Russell (e-)Companion: all manner of information and tidbits concerning Miss Russell’s Memoirs, from What does their house look like? to What’s a copper beech? Yes, there’s even a chapter on her sex life. The book page is here. And I will over to you my humble and immediate apologies…
Read MoreBring on the trumpets: it’s 2014!
Having given a review of 2013 yesterday, you may ask me, what plans does LRK have for 2014? Not that I do Resolutions, but there’s a lot on my agenda, and yet more things crowding into the back of my mind. Although before we do that, may I be the first to issue many happy…
Read MoreMy Thesis Being…
Many and many a year ago, Laurie King spent her life (parts of it, anyway) in realms academical. About half the novels I’ve written have some touch of my previous life in them: Brother Erasmus from To Play the Fool, the tutoring of Margery Childe in Monstrous Regiment, Anne Waverley in Darker Place/Birth of the…
Read MoreAll Hallows, all the time
Halloween is fast approaching, and since I’ve had both bones and weird stories on my mind of late, here’s a fun All Hallow’s video that Harris Stuyvesant might well have seen during his time in Paris: My own Paris Bones are here, with excerpts & extras. And the spooky urban-fantasy PI of “Hellbender” is here.
Read MoreHellbender
Just in time for your All Hallows reading pleasure: Mike Heller, a PI with some….extra skills, whose client is a blonde too gorgeous to be believed. She wants him to find her missing brother. He finds a whole lot more than that. LRK does urban fantasy. This appeared in the anthology Down These Strange Streets a…
Read MoreThe Art of Detection, real cheap
The Art of Detection is the book that links Inspector Kate Martinelli of the SFPD with the oddity that is the world of Sherlock Holmes. It’s what happens when an editor wistfully reflects aloud that she would love to see what a meeting of Kate and Mary Russell would look like, which causes a wicked…
Read MoreLRK on Sherlock Holmes: Update
For those of you who were waiting for a non-Kindle version of my Sherlock Holmes essays, it’s now available for download here. We are also looking into making it available in hard copy via Bookshop Santa Cruz’s print on demand machine — stay tuned for those details as well.
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