We’re racing now into week ten of the Fifteen Weeks—two thirds of the way through the celebration, and only 22 days until The Language of Bees goes on sale and LRK hits the road! And it being a Monday, that means Miss Russell is posting over on her Myspace blog, where she and Holmes…
Read MoreThanks to the untiring efforts of web maven Vicki and the generosity of Picador Press, from now until tax day you can download a free e-book of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice over at TheBeeisFree.com. Enjoy, tell all your friends, download it onto its various machines, and let us know how you like this. I’m not at…
Read MoreAs I may have happened to mention a few hundred times, I adore libraries. I grew up in libraries, libraries snatched up most of the first printing of A Grave Talent, and I revel in my local university’s research library. The Game was dedicated: To the librarians everywhere, who spend their lives in battle against the…
Read MoreTwenty-seven days until The Language of Bees buzzes across the land. Laurie is not really here (Jedi hand wave across the screen.) This is not the LRK you’re looking for. It’s a blog tour day, so she’s over at the blog Jungle Red, talking to fellow writer Roberta Isleib about Russell and Holmes and…well, lots of…
Read MoreTo celebrate the Fifteen Weeks of Bees and support Independent Booksellers, we ran the following drawing in May, 2009. Watch for a similar project in the spring of 2010, for The Green Man. Laurie loves Independents. To show her love, she’s giving a limited edition copy of this gorgeous 14×20” broadside about Russell and Holmes…
Read MoreThings are moving along with the LRK fundraiser for Heifer International. In case you haven’t caught this news, every dollar we raise on the Amazon and Cafepress stores by May 21 (Arthur Conan Doyle’s 150th birthday!) will be turned over to Heifer International, to be used to send beehives (or goats—we like goats) to poor…
Read MoreMore than halfway through the Fifteen Weeks of Bees now, which means only 29 days until the launch party for The Language of Bees! (You have read the first two chapters of the book, right?) Last week, we drew Staci Burr’s name from those who entered the Russell Trivia challenge—congratulations, Staci, you have an ARC…
Read MoreI have a cold. I have a snorting, hacking, eye-weeping, sore-throat, pounding-head, hard to sleep kind of a cold, despite all the herbal and chemical remedies in the world. I got it in Hawaii (which just seems wrong) and it’s now reached the pinnacle of disgusting awfulness. I’ve lost five days of writing time because…
Read MoreThis week’s guest post is over at Presenting Lenore, where I talk about Mary Russell’s YA appeal and how my own teenage years informed The Beekeeper’s Apprentice.
Read MoreMiss Russell has been doing her part to celebrate the Fifteen Weeks of Bees in the Laurie R. King e-universe, explaining through her MySpace blog how she came to give her memoirs to Ms King. This, week eight of the Fifteen Weeks, finds the intrepid duo this far in the story: In 1992 Mary Russell,…
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