Mary Russell
UK Deals on Russells
Hi UK readers—just to let you know (to tell your friends!) Locked Rooms, Letter of Mary, and The Moor are on on special in the UK for just £2, with the Kindle versions even less. Enjoy!
Read MoreAn Island is coming…
So, looks like you can order this from some places. Just in case you’re, you know, interested… The Island of the Mad: June, 2018. Web page, signed copies, and Amazon. This is not the cover, but perhaps it will put you in the mood–
Read MoreSherlock and the queen
Proust’s macarons
Every so often, a moment comes along that one knows is going to linger in the mind. Such as some years ago when I took my teenage kids to Hawaii in a last-minute late-December holiday, and a catamaran diving trip to Molokini turned for home with a deck-side barbecue and a blast of Alana’s Morisette’s…
Read MoreTrumpets & Confetti; Russell & Holmes
Got your trumpets polished? Champagne on ice? Confetti on hand? Good—because it’s time to announce that…. coming to a screen near you… will be (all fingers crossed)… The MARY RUSSELL SERIES featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes ! Well, no, it’s not real yet. Don’t get our your popcorn quite this…
Read MoreGleeful cackles of plot
A question writers are often asked is, “Where did that story / that character / that idea come from?” Usually the answer boils down to something small, some tiny piece of grit that lodges in the mind and accumulates ideas, images, snippets of dialogue like a pearl in an oyster. (Though admittedly, some pearls end…
Read MoreThe Triumph of the Maryorama!
It’s been almost eerie how the wider events of this past week have found echoes in my own working life. On the dark side of things, it’s brought me face to face with the final scenes I had written for next year’s Lockdown. Not that the book has anything to do with politics (thank goodness),…
Read MoreWar’s new face
Another typically dashing cover from my English publishers, Allison & Busby: Their e-book edition will be out the first part of November, with the print to follow in the spring. What do you think?
Read MoreTravels & Travails
[A letter, to those of you who don’t see my News.] I’m not sure if you, my dear Friends and Readers, have all just been super busy with the new academic year, or too swept up in the election to focus on anything but else, but the deadline is fast approaching for a contest that…
Read MoreThe Maryorama begins!
The transformation from Russellscape to Maryorama begins with this fantastic piece by reader Noémia Pereira, showing a scene from Dreaming Spies: Don’t you just adore this? Wouldn’t you like to join the Art March that is the Maryorama? Wouldn’t you like to win–a complete set of the Memoirs, or some Team LRK art? Click here for…
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