Yeah, I know National Library Week is over with, but we’re still celebrating.
If you think your local Palace of the Book would like the three most recent LRK novels in LARGE PRINT hardbacks, enter your name: here.
Billie & the Art of Detection
“The Marriage of Billie Birdsong” is still up for free download,
and will be until March 11. However, the sweepstakes giveway of a hardback The Art of Detection–
is only running until Thursday night! All you US residents can enter that here.
Enjoy, and good luck!
Merry Mary
This is the last few days to download the free illustrated pdf version of “Mary’s Christmas”, here. 
Print it off, e-mail it around, send it to friends—but do it in the next few days, because it comes off the site on January 1.
I hope you enjoy it!
Last Chance for Merry Mary
The free short story, “Mary’s Christmas”, is only available until January 1!
The story itself is in the collection Russell’s War, although unlike that plain print version, this freebie is illustrated,which is fun. Plus, it’s a pdf download, which means you can print it off, or save it, or send it to a friend.
The download is here.
Enjoy!
Merry Mary
Say, would you like a little something to help nudge you into that old holiday spirit? What about a copy of Mary’s Christmas?
This is a pdf to download, so you can print it off, use it to create an illuminated manuscript, send it to a friend, you name it. Plus, this is an all-new illustrated version, which the original was not, so that’s fun too.
The download is here. May Mary’s tale make you just a little bit merrier.
Ho! from Laurie
Contests & Giveaways All Over the Place!
We have contest winners!
The giveaway of ALL the Russell & Holmes books–
is now closed. [Sorry!] But the lucky winners are:
…of a signed copy of the US edition of Island of the Mad:
David K.
Elisabeth Simer
Esther Bolick
John Gourhan
…and of the Grand Prize Fab Collection of Riches:
Jean Utley!
Plus that, there will be 25 copies of Island of the Mad going out to Goodreads folk, so yay Penguin Random House!
And the other contest, for Brits!
Today’s the last day to enter this UK-only contest of books-with-biscuits! Toss your name into the virtual hat via Facebookor Twitter. And no, you don’t have to share your biscuits with the rest of us.
But… I didn’t win!?!
I’m very sorry about that. But really, it’s okay, you can still get a book on June 12, it’s just that you’ll have to trade some of your hard-earned cash for it.
Go here for your very own copy of Island of the Mad:
US edition—signed, from Poisoned Pen Booksor Bookshop Santa Cruz
Signed (as tip-in pages) from Barnes & Noble
Fromyour local Indie;from Amazon/Kindle;from Barnes & Noble/Nook.
UK edition—from Allison & Busby;from my friends at Heffer’s.
Or the audio download here.
Giveaway
(Two weeks to the Island pub date!)
These are your last days to put your name down for the giveaway of ALL the Russell & Holmes books. All of them…
The drawing is on Friday, June 1. Go here to put your name down. And good luck!
Contest entry
For any of you who missed the newsletter last week, and who would like to enter a drawing for these…
(minus the masks) the link to that newsletter is here. You’ll need to enter before June 1.
Good luck!
Giving it away…
There’s a contest coming up! Well, we call it a contest, more of a giveaway. Details are in this Saturday’s newsletter (signup’s here if you’re not a subscriber) for a chance at all the Russell & Holmes hardbacks. All of them. Signed. In US hardback.
Hashtag #islandofthemad.
Thrilling sweepstakes
Want a good read—or eight?
My dear publishers are doing a mystery-thriller sweepstakes giveaway, with Island of the Mad tucked in with seven other new crime fiction books. (You suppose I’m allowed to put my name down…?) Enter it here.