Twenty Weeks of Buzz
Love your library!
Happy National Library Week—kiss a librarian today. Or maybe take her or him a batch of nutritious muffins, or a shiny apple, or just a thank-you card. We love libraries! And this being Library Week, the Twenty Weeks of Buzz contest for “My Fantasy Library” is now closed. I’m going through the entries (Wow, what…
Read MoreDeadlines & Passing on the Gift
Just a quick reminder to send your submissions for both the Fantasy Library Contest and the Beekeeper’s Gallery (any art that doesn’t fit within the frame of a Russellscape) to bees@laurierking.com by this coming Monday, April 12. Voting for the Beekeeper’s Gallery will begin that day, so come back next week and cast your vote…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Part Fifteen
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 MoreTemples of book worship
If you visit, or subscribe to, this blog, you love books. And if you’re anything like me, you caught your bibliophilia from a library, most likely the one in your home town. Here was mine, in Santa Cruz, California, a building I visited at least once a week when we lived there in the early…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Week Fifteen
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 MoreCalifia’s Daughters, by “Leigh Richards”
Each Tuesday during our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’m posting about a different one of my twenty books, with remarks, reflections, and snippets of information about writing it. I’ll be discussing Califia’s Daughters this week, which was published as Leigh Richards in 2004. A lot of crime writers start out in the science fiction realm.…
Read MoreLost in the medina
I am currently in Morocco, eating the world’s most gorgeous cooking and wandering the narrow streets of Fes. I’ll post a photo or ten when I return to Lisbon later in the week, but in the meantime, don’t forget that this week’s contest is “My Fantasy Library,” with the description and details here. Send your…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Part Fourteen
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 MorePlaying The Game
For a hundred years or so, devotees of Sherlock Holmes have been playing the game. It is, amongst the faithful, an accepted behaviour and part of the “romance” of being a Sherlockian or Holmesian, depending on which side of the pond you call home. More recently the readers of Mary Russell’s memoirs have joined in…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Week Fourteen
We have a treasure trove of goodies going out this week… David H. won the God of the Hive ARC giveaway for opening last Friday’s newsletter. Don’t forget to sign up here for future prizes and news! @littlefluffycat also will be reading an ARC for participating in last night’s Twitter party. If you missed out…
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