Twenty Weeks of Buzz
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, With Some Notes Upon the Segregation of the Queen
One part of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz is a retrospective of the LRK oeuvre—a fancy way of saying that I’ll be looking at each of my twenty books, a week at a time. Week two: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes novel, published 1994; one of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Associations’ 100…
Read MoreWeek 2, Twenty Weeks of Buzz
This is week 2 of the Word is, people look at blogs for a number of reasons. Pure entertainment, perhaps, or simple information is another, or even that ineffable search for human contact among the electrons, a desire for community and like minds. The idea behind this year’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz is to bring…
Read MoreGOTH ARC winner!
The first winner of an Advanced Reading Copy of The God of the Hive is Joe Pace, who lives in South Carolina. Joe’s response was: THANKS SO MUCH- PLEASE SIGN IT-TO MY FELLOW AUTHOR AND ONE WHO HAS LOVED SHERLOCK FOR OVER 50 YEARS-JOE PACE So I did, and the ARC is on its way…
Read MoreA Case of Correspondence: Part 1
Correspondence has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the upcoming Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo—those old folks do get around!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The Case of the Ravening Sherlockians.) The current saga posts in its prose…
Read MoreTwenty weeks of Russell
Correspondence has been uncovered between Mary Russell and Other Important People, postcards and brief notes which, conveniently enough, divide into twenty parts. Thus during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz we will be following the 1992 (no, that’s not a typo–those old folks do get around!) adventures of the intrepid Russell, posted Wednesdays on her MySpace…
Read MoreTwenty Weeks of Buzzz
Hear ye, hear ye: Thus begins the— Four months from today The God of the Hive will appear on bookshelves across the land. Twenty weeks from now, we’ll announce grand prize winners—more on those later. In fact, there’ll be more on a whole lot about the Twenty Weeks of Buzz in coming weeks, with contests,…
Read More(Re)Writing God of the Hive (2)
The second excerpt for The God of the Hive is here, with more to follow on the 27th of February and March. For those interested in one writer’s creative process, each will be followed by a post showing the first draft of that section, with brief remarks about the rewrite process. I will take care…
Read MoreCorrespondence has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the upcoming Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo—those old folks do get around!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The Case of the Ravening Sherlockians.) [LINK to MyStory] The current saga posts…
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