The auction to name a character in the next Russell & Holmes story closes Wednesday. I would so love to give Second Harvest a nice big sum for their drive-by groceries program, which feeds workers left hungry by the quarantine. And frankly, going strictly by past auctions at BoucherCon and the like (rather than my…
Read MoreThe English face of Riviera Gold! From my good friends at Allison & Busby. Isn’t is lovely? Don’t you want to be there? (Don’t you want to be anywhere that isn’t your house?) *** Riviera Gold (here) is available for pre-order, if you’d like to demonstrate your enthusiasm. Signed from Bookshop Santa Cruz or Poisoned…
Read MoreOne of the people I follow on Facebook is a long-time admirer of the Mary Russell stories who came into the fold when she was younger than Russell is in Beekeeper. She did some of the illustrations we’ve used in various projects, like this one of Baskerville Hall: (She was one of the few artists…
Read MoreCongratulations— Caren, Chris, Andrea, Hanna, June, Maria, Justine, Patricia, Pamela, & Wendy ! ! ! ! Ten subscribers of my newsletter who get to enjoy Riviera Gold ahead of the crowd—hooray! (And if that’s your name and you entered the Newsletter giveaway, make sure you check your email!) The other ARC winners, from the contests…
Read MoreSheltering in place is hard. Doing so when you can barely afford that shelter in the first place can be impossible. Second Harvest is stepping up with drive-by food giveaways serving hundreds of families at a time—families whose breadwinners pick our fruit, clean our rooms, pack our home deliveries, care for our sick. This fund-raiser…
Read MoreTonight’s my online conversation with Charlaine Harris and Dana Cameron, a fundraiser for the Pixels Project that fights violence against women. We’ll be talking about—well, knowing us, we’ll talk about all kinds of things, but mainly about women and violence in crime fiction. As part of the Pixels fundraiser, they’ve put bundles up for sale…
Read MoreWell, it’s been an… interesting month, hasn’t it? Two weeks ago, I was in San Diego for a conference. Today, I’m not sure any of us will ever travel again… So, in that spirit, we’re embracing the virtual reach-out. Yesterday I spent a very brisk hour of keyboarding with a chat with the Beekeeper’s Apprentices FB…
Read MoreRiviera Gold …comes a step closer to your hands: (The ARCs are here! The ARCs are here!) That’s right, the bound galleys of Riviera Gold dropped into my life while I was down in San Diego, and they’re really pretty. And have a lot of words in them, too! These copies are for my own…
Read MoreIf you didn’t catch the newsletter’s excerpt and giveaway of the upcoming Russell & Holmes short story, “Ten Years On,” you have a couple of days to put your name in for this ARC, for a book published April 21. The story is set in Brighton, in the spring of 1925, ten years after a…
Read MoreOn February 24, 2004, President George W. Bush told the country that he supported a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, warning that such unions threatened the most fundamental institution of civilization and defied millennia of human experience. On March 11, the California Supreme Court ordered San Francisco to stop issuing the licenses. On August, some…
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