I’m in Los Angeles for Left Coast Crime, the mystery conference for the country’s looser nuts. It doesn’t begin until this afternoon, which leaves me a few hours to frantically catch up on work. And to write a blog telling about how I’m frantically catching up on work, which seems like cheating, somehow. In any…
Read MoreWhat’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 MoreEach Tuesday during this spring’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’m talking about a different one of my twenty books, with remarks and reflections about the writing process. This is the eleventh week, so I’ll be looking at Folly, published in 2001, which won the Macavity award and the Washington State Award. Sometimes, a book’s greatest…
Read MoreThe Sherlockism is a pithy turn of phrase as favored by Mr Sherlock Holmes: * “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” * “I saw no one.” “That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.” * “I believe that you are the devil himself!” he cried. Holmes smiled at the compliment.…
Read MoreA 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 MoreWe’ve had some absolutely fantabulous entries into the Russellscape project this week, you can see them at the bottom of the home page, here, where you’ll also find a link to the instructions for doing one of your own—come on, get those pencils/paints/scissors-and-glue going! We’ve also had an amazing, gorgeous Illustrated MyStory that we’ll post…
Read MoreP U Z Z L E U Z Z L E X C E L L E N T …….R …….O …….S …….S …….W …….O …….R …….DO IT HERE AND WIN A PRIZE That’s right, the wicked puzzler Marjorie has set another crossword, to eat up your hours between now and the end of…
Read MoreWhat’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 MoreTuesdays during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz are given over to a look at each of my twenty books, a week at a time, giving some tidbit of information or background about the writing process. I am a San Francisco native, more or less. My mother was born there, and her mother before her; although…
Read MoreThe third excerpt for The God of the Hive is here, with more to follow on March 27 (and the book itself April 27.) For those curious about the creative process, each is followed by a post showing scans of the first draft and brief remarks about the rewrite process. I take care to avoid…
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