Twenty Weeks of Buzz
A Letter of Mary
Tuesdays during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz are given over to a look at each of my twenty books, one each week, with some reflection or bit of information or background about it. This week, A Letter of Mary, published in 1997. My background is theology, with degrees in Comparative Religion and in Old Testament.…
Read MoreWelcome to week six
What do Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Helene Hanff, Dorothy Sayers, and Laurie King have in common? Apart from the obvious, of course? Maybe the titles will nudge your memory: Dracula. Frankenstein. 84 Charing Cross Road. What about, The Documents in the Case (got it now?) And “A Case in Correspondence.” The short story unfolding at…
Read More(Re)writing GotH II
The second excerpt for The God of the Hive is here, with more to follow on the 27th of February and March. For those curious about the creative process (who among us is not?) each will be followed by a post showing the first draft of that section, with brief remarks about the rewrite process.…
Read MoreA Case of Correspondence, Part 5
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 MoreThe God of the Hive, part two
The second excerpt of The God of the Hive (pub date 27 April) can be found through the book’s web page: in which we catch a glimpse of Sherlock Holmes, dodging responsibility. If you come back here to Mutterings on the 29th, you can see what the original draft of this same section looked like,…
Read MoreTwenty Weeks of Russell: Week 5
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 this week you can find them here at Mutterings on Thursday. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock…
Read MoreWith Child
Each Tuesday during this spring’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’ll be posting about a different one of my twenty books, with remarks, reflections, and snippets of information about the writing process. With Child was the third Kate Martinelli novel, published in 1996, and was short listed for the Orange Prize. Writing about children under threat…
Read MoreWeek five of twenty
These “Twenty Weeks of Buzz” make for an interesting exploration of the Brave New World of Internet outreach. In some ways it feels as if I’m running my own corporation here: producing the product (ie, a book) then packaging and promoting it. In part, this sensation of do-it-yourself is because publishing houses run in seasons…
Read MorePuzzle with answers
Here is this week’s puzzle with answers. I hope you enjoyed the game — a winner will be announced here in the next day or two! Thanks to John for his puzzling prowess (certainly puzzling to me!)
Read MoreA Case of Correspondence, Part 4
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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