Twenty Weeks of Buzz
The Game
Tuesdays of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz are given over to a look at each of my twenty novels, a week at a time, giving some tidbit of information or background about the book. This week, The Game, published in 2004. Click on the photos to enlarge. Kipling’s Kim is one of my all-time favorite…
Read MoreDon’t we love the libraries?
National Library Week is coming, and I want to know your fantasies. No, not that kind—the real ones, the important ones. The fantasy of the absolute, ultimate, perfect ideal of a library. It can be a public library or your personal space, large or small, vast or intimate, dim or bright, wood or glass—this is…
Read More(Re)Writing God of the Hive IV
The fourth excerpt for The God of the Hive is here. (The book itself is available on April 27.) For those curious about the writing and rewriting process, each excerpt has been followed by a brief explanation of the changes made. As always, I take care to avoid major spoilers, but anyone wishing to preserve…
Read MoreThe God of the Hive, portion the fourth
The final excerpt of The God of the Hive (only a month to go until pub date!) is up (via the book page), in which Mary Russell hides behind milk canisters, and meets a gun. Come back here to Mutterings in two days for my comments on the rewrite process of this chapter, and a…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Part Thirteen
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 Twitterpated Twitterparty
I hope you’ll join us this coming Sunday for a Russell and Holmes (virtual) house party. You—yes, you!—are invited by Miss Russell and her curmudgeonly husband to a party at their Sussex Downs cottage. If you are on Twitter, you can add your voice to the conversation and maybe be offered a glass of honey…
Read MoreWinners, and A Case in Correspondence: Week Thirteen
The winners of this week’s contests are… For last week’s puzzle contest, Marc B. won the prize, a mini-broadside of “A Venomous Death.” Send in your solution to this week’s puzzle for your chance to win! Shawn S. won this week’s Goodreads drawing. Over at the Virtual Book Club, we had quite a few winners…
Read MoreKeeping Watch
This is week thirteen of this spring’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz, when each Tuesday I post remarks about the background of one of the twenty books. This week, Keeping Watch, published in 2003. I wanted to write a man. Often the seed of one of my books is something that only has significance for me:…
Read MoreIt’s all a puzzle
We’ve had quite the puzzling time of it during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, with a total of five brain twisters provided by a few clever fans. This week is your last chance to match wits with our Twenty Weeks puzzles, so head over to the puzzle page and download this week’s Bee-fore and After…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Part Twelve
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…
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