Russellscape
The 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 MoreMaryorama winners!
The Maryorama is finished, polished, and will be up soonon YouTube. But in the meantime–our Maryorama contest has its winners! The Grand Prize Winner—with a complete set of Russells coming her way—is a lovely depiction of Justice Hall with the rays of the sun falling on it, a subtle digital image by: Katie Olson First…
Read MoreMary-o-prizes
Two days left to win! GRAND PRIZE: a complete set of Russell & Holmes paperbacks, including Mary Russell’s War & other stories * FIRST RUNNER-UP: Four full-sized illustrated broadsheets * FIVE RUNNERS-UP: a collection of art from “The Illustrated Russell & Holmes” For instructions, go here. And–work fast!
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 MoreMiss Russell’s Brilliant Friends
Many and many a year ago, in a (LR)Kingdom by the sea, we started celebrating various events (new books, Library Week, St. Swithun’s Day) by running contests. Some of these involved art, others words. We did crossword puzzles, pirate haiku, Russellscapes, “My Dream Library”—you name it, we’ve done it (next up: videos.) When we moved…
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…
Read MoreRemember the Russellscape!
The Russellscape is a series of images contributed by all you Friends of Russell (& Holmes), that literally comes together, creating a moving panorama of the duo’s travels. It’s the modern version of the Victorian card game called the myriorama. We’re doing a new Fun Stuff section of the web site with art, crossword puzzles, and a new Russellscape—or,…
Read MoreThe XX-rated Russell?
So a funny thing happened on the way to a Russellscape… Since changing over the web site a few months ago (if you haven’t seen it, take a look!) we’re been working on ways to bring over the impressive amount of fan art that’s accumulated in the old site. We’re also working on a renovation…
Read MoreRussellscape, redux!
[Coming soon: a 2016 Russellscape contest. Stay tuned…] At the center of Dreaming Spies is a book— A folding book of illustrated poems, some eight inches tall and three and a half wide, with a slip-case to hold it. When stretched out, it forms a panorama of the very road you travelled along to get…
Read MoreRussellscape winner
Please excuse the suspense — all of the Russellscape entries were so great, it took me a while to consult my panel of expert judges and pick a winner. In the end, we decided on Sara McClelland for her illustration of The Language of Bees (number 18 on the Russellscape page) as well as her…
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