Twenty Weeks of Buzz
A Darker Place
Each Tuesday during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’ll post about a different one of my twenty books, with remarks, reflections, and snippets of information about the writing process. This week we visit A Darker Place, which was published in 1999. Nearly all religions begin with personal revelation followed by a handful of convinced fanatics…
Read More20 Weeks of…colouring books?
Week eight of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz: Monday we say hello (Hi there!) while the Virtual Book Club gets into the meat of Folly. Tuesday I post a blog about writing A Darker Place and then jump on a plane for Scottsdale, where Dana Stabenow is having a Poisoned Pen Party to launch A…
Read MorePuzzling permutations
Just a weekend note, to mention that this week’s puzzle was such a stumper there haven’t been many answers submitted–so if you want to try again, your chances of winning a copy of “A Venomous Death” are pretty good. The puzzles page is here, and remember, it’s a matter of turnabout is fair play. Or…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence, Part 7
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 MoreThursday thoughts
Congratulations to Lori D. in Redwood City and Bruce C. of Stratham New Hampshire, in the sun and in the snow, who won copies of “A Venomous Death” for their brilliant jobs in, well, joining into the Twenty Weeks of Buzz fun—Lori read her newsletter and Bruce is on Goodreads. Enjoy the Further Adventures of…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Week Seven
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…
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Tuesdays during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz will present some bit of information or background about each of my twenty books, one at a time. This is week seven, and we’re talking about The Moor, published in 1998. For two articles by LRK on ACD, see “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle” in AZ Murder Goes Classic…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence, Part 6
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 MoreThursday thrills
Two exciting new projects in the LRK e-universe, at pretty opposite ends of some kind of spectrum: an app and a coloring book. The app is for iPhones, and you can get yours here. It’s still in its infancy, but I am assured that it will be Terribly Useful and will contain All Kinds of…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Week Six
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…
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