The video entries for this week’s contest were all excellent, so I decided to give them all a prize. TSDKerry won a hardcover of The Language of Bees for her video of Russell in San Francisco, and Canzonett won an ARC of The Language of Bees for her imagining of Russell’s rudely interrupted studies. Last…
Read MoreIn The Language of Bees, Mary Russell first meets the Reverend Thomas Brothers through his work of inspiration, which he calls Testimony. Testimony is his Bible, the holy writ that his congregation reads in their services, and describes how he came to know Divine Will. During the rewrite process of The Language of Bees, most…
Read MoreThe Bee is coming! That’s right: The Language of Bees launches on Tuesday, with a fiesta abuzz with bees and Bohemians and vintage aeroplane talk—at the great Book Passage store in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. And beginning Wednesday, I will post a blog about every stop I make between Launch Day and Mother’s Day. Here’s…
Read MoreAs has become our habit during the Fifteen Weeks, Thursday is guest post day. This time I’m visiting the Tome Traveller, who herself is just back from the UK. Her post yesterday is a review of The Language of Bees, although if you don’t want spoilers, you might want to keep your eyes averted from…
Read MoreOne of our long-time friends here in the LRK web world is “Laidee Marjorie.” Marjorie has been an enthusiastic part of meet-ups and discussions, and she is the chief puzzler among us, inventor of the diabolically clever Russell puzzles during weeks 3, 5, and 9 of the Fifteen Weeks of Bees. Social networking is a…
Read MoreDue to popular demand, we’ve extended the deadline for this week’s YouTube contest until this Friday, April 24 to allow you to submit your best dramatization of Russell and Holmes’ world! Guidelines and the submission process can be found on the Contests page. Good luck!
Read MoreWeek Twelve of Fifteen Weeks of Bees, and over at Myspace, Russell and Holmes are being pursued by a pack of importunate American Sherlockians, who chased the duo from their Sussex home to Oxford. 12. You need to remember, this was 1992, and the number of people who knew that Sherlock Holmes had a wife…
Read MoreThe excellent Tony Broadbent, whose books I adore (surely Jethro the cat burglar and Mary Russell met, sometime?) asks, what is the proper collective noun for a set of Russells? A hive? A buzz? A sting? He nominates honey-pot—and please note: pot, not bucket. The lady in question has posted a Myspace blog today, for…
Read MoreThank you, everyone who sent us a love letter to a library. We had dozens of entries, many of them moving or amusing, or both—and I wish you would all now send your letter to the library in question, to let them know you’re thinking of them. It was very hard to choose one from…
Read MoreI had some questions about the seder songs I talked about last week. My son-in-law’s sister tells me she took them from here and here, so now you’re all set for next year, right? ***** This week I sent the first draft of the next book to my editor. The Green Man is nothing near…
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