Garment of Shadows
Book love
Oh, I love to get the first copy of my newest book. Love it. Twenty-two times now, and it never gets old. I’m sitting with my newest on the desk beside me as I type, and it looks like this: And you? Will have to wait until September 4 for yours.
Read MoreGarment of Puzzles
The past few years we’ve been doing a lot of pre-publication hoopla here at LRK-Land, but (you may have noticed) this year not so much. Partly this is because I’ve been moving house while also incredibly busy with Life and partly because, well, enough is enough even when it comes to fun. But one thing…
Read MoreNewsletter drawing
A last group of Garment of Shadows ARCs will go out to ten people on the newsletter mailing list. We’ll do the drawing on Tuesday, so if you’re not signed up for the newsletter, you might like to drop in on the web site and stick your name here. Good luck!
Read MoreWhat do I want in a book cover?
First of all, I want it to evoke the book without giving away the plot. (Garment of Shadows: young woman in Western clothes gazes at a vaguely North African landscape: check.) Then, it needs to catch the eyes from across a crowded bookstore—or as a 2” version on a screen. (Rich glow of color; a…
Read MoreWrap-up
Thanks to everyone who sent in a comment over the last ten days—and congratulations to the winners (although Betsy Chamberlin and Elizabeth Copley, you might want to check your email if you’d like an ARC because we haven’t heard from you yet!) And actually, I apologize for inflicting the task of a daily comment on…
Read MoreRome in Africa
Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings for a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Among other oddities of this extraordinary country, Morocco was part of the Roman empire. As Hadrian’s Wall, between England and Scotland, marked the northern point of Rome’s West, the city of Volubilis occupied its south-western fringes.…
Read MoreThe city gates
Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings for a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Fez remains a walled city, as it was in 1924 when Russell and Holmes walked its streets, as it was for the centuries before that. Cars are kept out by the high adobe bricks, the population…
Read MoreA very local economy
Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings, and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. One of the fascinating things about Fez is the way the crafts of everyday life are created where they are used: need a shirt, a chair, a bowl? They’re still made down the street,…
Read MoreLyautey’s Fez
Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings, and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. In 1924, Morocco was a protectorate, under the administration of France to the south and Spain to the north. The Spanish portion was, simply speaking, a disaster, with years of oppression that erupted into…
Read MoreThe waters of Fez
Leave a comment on today’s post, over at Mutterings,and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Water is the reason for Fez. It is the source of a hundred springs, which means every large house has its courtyard fountain, every street corner its public fountain: And as if the suq’s guiding spirit…
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