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Online & 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 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 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 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 MoreFour women, one amazing conversation
Next month, on February 16, four women will sit down in an Arizona ballroom and talk books. Of course, women talking books is hardly unusual, but in this case the women might be saying things that others would like to listen in on. Barbara Peters is in charge. Barbara’s the queen bee of Poisoned Pen…
Read MoreBook Passage does it again!
Book Passage has two stores, in a small shopping center in Corte Madera, north of the Golden Gate, and in the historic Ferry Building in San Francisco itself. The Ferry Building reinvented itself a few years ago to become a Mecca for foodies, and the bookstore went hand in hand, with a strong presence of…
Read MoreLiterary sex
If, as Kurt Vonnegut declares, unusual travel invitations are dancing lessons from God, then the invites have been running hot this week. Wednesday’s memorable seder was followed by last night’s…reading? at the Make-Out Room in San Francisco. Minal Hajratwala’s memories of her Indian family, Stacie Boschma’s slam reading that was the very definition of performance…
Read MoreParanormal, Sex & Culture
I’m still over at Bitten by Books this morning, if there’s something you just always wanted to ask LRK and didn’t have the chance. And they’re giving away a bunch of books–great contests there. And, a reminder that on Saturday I’m with Pam Houston, Stacie Boschma, Sean Stewart, Regina Lynn, and Minal Hajratwala in San Francisco’s Make Out…
Read MoreFree e-book!
Thanks to the untiring efforts of web maven Vicki and the generosity of Picador Press, from now until tax day you can download a free e-book of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice over at TheBeeisFree.com. Enjoy, tell all your friends, download it onto its various machines, and let us know how you like this. I’m not at…
Read MoreThe Sussex adventures of Russell & Holmes, part 8
Miss Russell has been doing her part to celebrate the Fifteen Weeks of Bees in the Laurie R. King e-universe, explaining through her MySpace blog how she came to give her memoirs to Ms King. This, week eight of the Fifteen Weeks, finds the intrepid duo this far in the story: In 1992 Mary Russell,…
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