Twenty Weeks of Buzz
A Case in Correspondence: Week Eighteen
What’s this I see? Mary Russell has a new post over on her MySpace page? Episodes of “A Case in Correspondence” will appear there Wednesdays throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, and on Fridays you can find them here at Mutterings. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up…
Read MoreTouchstone
Each Tuesday during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I post about a different one of my twenty novels, giving some bit of insight about the process of writing that particular book. This is week eighteen, so we’re talking about Touchstone, published in 2007. It’s called intuition, or ESP, or lucky guess. Malcolm Gladwell calls it…
Read MoreThe day before the day…
I started writing this post in London on Sunday morning, in a family kitchen, listening to the click of the heating system sending warmth towards the radiators. This is a location achieved after one local French train, one high-speed French train, one highly entertaining Paris taxi ride (French/Algerian rap music and a warning about the…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Part Seventeen
A series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Week Seventeen
What’s this I see? Mary Russell has a new post over on her MySpace page? Episodes of “A Case in Correspondence” will appear there Wednesdays throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, and on Fridays you can find them here at Mutterings. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up…
Read MoreThe Art of Detection
Each Tuesday during this spring’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I post about a different one of my twenty novels, talking about how I came to write that book. This week, The Art of Detection, published in 2006 and winner of the Lambda Award. meets Sitting in a BoucherCon hotel suite with my editor, talking about…
Read MoreOh Lord, stuck in Lisboa again…(or, still.)
Week seventeen of our Twenty Weeks of Buzz finds me in Lisbon, for rather longer than I had intended. You see, there’s this volcano in Iceland that decided to erupt and cover northern Europe with the kind of ash that makes airplanes cough and fall out of the sky like flies hit with bug spray,…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Part Sixteen
A series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
Read MoreNational Library Fantasies
Mary Russell’s Wednesday post is over on her MySpace page — and that episode of “A Case in Correspondence” in its original form will appear here on Friday. ** Oh, I’ve had such fun looking at the submissions for the Fantasy Library contest—you people are great! The only problem is, after setting the contest under way, I now…
Read MoreLocked Rooms
Each Tuesday of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’ll be posting about a different one of my books, with remarks, reflections, and bits of information about how the book came to be. This week I discuss Locked Rooms, published in 2005. It started with a dream. I was giving a tour of a house—my house,…
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