We got your red-hot links, right here, ground fine and fired up for your enjoyment. First off is a video production of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice. Well, parts of it. Actually it’s a video of the Sussex landscape where Russell and Holmes live, with yours truly reading from the book. Then there’s a podcast, or an…
Read MoreWhen I was young and rude, as opposed to middle aged and rude, the word “bitchin” was a term of praise. It is in that sense of the word that I invite you to join me over at Bookbitch, a bitchin’ blog about books. And don’t forget to give me your love letter to a…
Read MoreThe Amazing Adventures of (92 year old) Mary Russell continues, in her Myspace blog. Things are beginning to get exciting—the story thus far: In 1992, the rural Sussex home that Ms Russell shared with the aged Sherlock Holmes was invaded by “a ravening pack of Sherlockians.” The Intrepid Duo escape them by ruse and make…
Read MoreHey, kids, it’s National Library Week! Was that a yawn I heard in the back row? Shame on you—especially now that the world is listening to a giant sucking sound as one piece of the economy after another goes down the pipes. Not the library. The library is safe refuge, whether it’s escaping with a…
Read MoreIf, as Kurt Vonnegut declares, unusual travel invitations are dancing lessons from God, then the invites have been running hot this week. Wednesday’s memorable seder was followed by last night’s…reading? at the Make-Out Room in San Francisco. Minal Hajratwala’s memories of her Indian family, Stacie Boschma’s slam reading that was the very definition of performance…
Read MoreI went to a seder on Wednesday with my new family—the family my daughter married into—and found it…unlike other seders I’d been to. Sing to the tune of “Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”: Just a tad of haroset helps the bitter herbs go down, The bitter herbs go down, the…
Read MoreThe world ended today, here in Santa Cruz County. Vandals cut through several fiber optic cables and dumped a hefty patch of Northern California into the 1980s. Tens of thousands of people were completely cut off from the world. Computers did not communicate, cell phones went silent, land lines hummed with the noise of desperate…
Read MoreI’m still over at Bitten by Books this morning, if there’s something you just always wanted to ask LRK and didn’t have the chance. And they’re giving away a bunch of books–great contests there. And, a reminder that on Saturday I’m with Pam Houston, Stacie Boschma, Sean Stewart, Regina Lynn, and Minal Hajratwala in San Francisco’s Make Out…
Read MoreSome days I am normal. Others I am a tad paranormal. Today is one of the latter. I’m taking questions and comments over at the ever-thrilling Bitten By Books today, and it will probably spill over onto tomorrow morning, in case your thinking process is delayed. Please join us, read the BbB/LRK interview, and throw…
Read MoreIt’s been a week since we announced this, and we’re a quarter of the way up our goal for the Heifer International fundraiser. So I’ll say again: If you want to name a character (you, your mother, your cat) in the next Russell & Holmes, The Green Man, here’s your chance: just donate two or…
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