Fifteen Weeks of Bees
And the winner is…
The winner of this week’s Mary Russell word puzzle drawing is Emily Rivard. She won a complete set of the first four Mary Russell novels in paperback from Picador Books. Congratulations Emily!
Read MoreGuest Post — A Striped Armchair
Today we’re making ourselves comfy in A Striped Armchair. Please join me there for my thoughts on writing The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and the many doors it opened to Mary Russell’s further adventures.
Read MoreMary Russell: My Story, Part 3
Follow Mary Russell’s account of the story behind how and why Laurie R. King came to have the Russell/Holmes memoirs, as described in Laurie’s prefaces to the first four Russell books. Further chapters to come each week during the Fifteen Weeks of Bees every Monday on Myspace, or Tuesdays in Laurie R. King’s blog, Mutterings.…
Read MoreContest: Mary Russell Word Ladder
One of the things I’ve discovered, as I’ve become more involved in the web, is that the community of people devoted to my books is a richly varied and wildly talented one. By way of example, “Laidee Marjorie,” a regular on the Virtual Book Club, loves to create puzzles. So the contest for this week’s…
Read MoreBlog Tour — Reading Group Guides
Today’s post is brought to you by the letter–er, no, we’re not on Sesame Street today. We’re on the excellent Reading Group Guides blog instead, carrying on about Items of interest to Laurie (and, we hope, to others). Join me here.
Read MoreMary Russell: My Story Part 2
Follow Mary Russell’s account of the story behind how and why Laurie R. King came to have the Russell/Holmes memoirs, as described in Laurie’s prefaces to the first four Russell books. Further chapters to come each week during the Fifteen Weeks of Bees every Monday on Myspace, or Tuesdays in Laurie R. King’s blog, Mutterings.…
Read MoreMary Russell’s Story — Part 2
Mary Russell posts on her Myspace blog every Monday during the Fifteen Weeks of Bees. The second installment is now up. With her kind permission, I shall post the same here every Tuesday, so check back tomorrow for the second part of Miss Russell’s tale. Think of this as a serial short story.
Read MoreMary Russell’s Blog.
(Mary Russell posts on her Myspace blog every Monday during the Fifteen Weeks of Bees. With her kind permission, I shall post the same here every Tuesday. Think of this as a serial short story.) 1. Hard as it is to believe, fifteen years have passed since Ms Laurie King published—under her name—the first volume…
Read MoreNew, we’re new!
My so-clever daughter has become a webster, and we’re all new and shiny at the web site Fifteen Weeks of Bees! A Russellscape! Fun stuff! What do you think?
Read MoreFifteen Weeks of Bees Preview
We’ll be talking (a lot!) about Fifteen Weeks of Bees here over the next, well, fifteen weeks, but to whet your taste for what’s going on, here are just two of its elements: Mary Russell video and Mary Russell on Twitter. I love my fans.
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