Mary Russell
Lives change @ your library.
And a very Happy National Library Week to you! The theme of this year’s American Library Association celebration is Lives change @ your library. So that’s what Team LRK is celebrating as well. As you must know by now, I love libraries. I use libraries by the cubic meter, by the hundredweight, by the hour. …
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 MoreLRK talks
The excellent and estimable Dan Stashower and I will sit on opposite sides of the country on Thursday (noon Eastern time) and have a conversation with Kojo Nnamdi about “The Enduring Popularity of Sherlock Holmes.” And Mary Russell, one hopes. It will be streamed, and you can ask questions, and–well, I hope you join us.…
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 MoreLaurie talks!
When I was in the Pacific Northwest last month for the fabulous Sherlock Seattle I sat down and talked with Bill Kenower with Author about, well, Sherlock Holmes–and also about Mary Russell, the temerity of an innocent, writer’s block, and what writing has taught me:
Read MoreRemembrance
Mary Russell is posting Tweets all day for Remembrance Day, from the diary of Gabriel Hughenfort. Russell, Holmes, and Mrs Hudson paused for silence at 11 am their time, in Sussex. Follow her here. (War photographer Helen Johns Kirtland in the trenches.)
Read MoreLetters of Mary
Among the many unexpected joys I have discovered in being a writer has been the extraordinary community that has formed around the Mary Russell stories. People with little in common geographically or even socially come together online in mutual affection for Russell & Holmes—and, even more amazing, forge lasting friendships when they come together physically…
Read MoreJapan, and 30 Days of Paris
I adore guide-books. Not, please, the flavorless modern versions, little more than well-digested lists of places to see and hours of opening. No, I mean the traditional guides written by those who have truly Been There. I use guides from the 1920s as an entree into the time and place I’m writing about, but frankly,…
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