While I try to get all my week’s clothes back into the suitcase and head from Maui to rainy CA, I thought you might enjoy a few things to keep you busy. Week seven’s contest on the Fifteen Week’s of Bees was for a Russellism, some sharp and pithy saying that Miss Russell might have…
Read MoreAs I may have said once or twice before, I don’t write to an outline. When I begin a book, I have some ideas, a few interesting scene possibilities, a social dynamic I want to explore—basically, all sorts of bits and pieces that in no way resemble a book. I set off into the stygian…
Read MoreAll of the original Russellism entries have been posted here — read them over and leave a comment here with your favorite. The winner will be announced later today, Friday March 20! Check back to see if yours was the lucky quip. If so, it will appear in Russell X and you will be the…
Read MoreOkay, here you have it: the scheduled stops on my 2009 The Language of Bees tour extravaganza: April 28: Launch Party for The Language of Bees! Book Passage, Ferry Building, San Francisco (Twenties costumes optional…) April 29: A conversation with Les Klinger, Borders Books, Park Avenue, NY May 1: Chicago Sherlock Holmes society dinner May…
Read MoreToday’s a guest blog day at the 15 Weeks of Bees (all buzz, all the time!) so Laurie’s having a visit with the nice folks over at Age 30+. Do join us, and while you’re there, have a look around and say hi to your new friends. Then back here tomorrow, with news about the…
Read MoreThe story thus far: Miss Russell, in acknowledgment of the Fifteen Weeks of Bees celebration under way in the Laurie R. King e-universe, chose to explain to the world through the device of her MySpace blog the manner in which she came to deliver the Russell Memoirs to Ms King. This, week seven of the…
Read MoreAnd the event of week seven here at The Fifteen Weeks of Bees (where the buzz is “All bees, all the time”) concerns The Art of the Russellism. A Sherlockism is one of the pithy sayings Sherlock Holmes was wont to create: There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” “You see, but do…
Read MoreOh dear. Whales. And waves, and palm trees. To say nothing of wind-surfers, kite-boarders, and other decorative events. This is the view from the condo. Not distracting at all.
Read MoreThe winner of this week’s Facebook drawing is Kramer A. Kramer. Congratulations Kramer! You won a complete autographed set of the first four Mary Russell books in paperback. Thanks to all who participated by becoming fans of my Facebook page. This week we’ll be working hard to decide on your best Russellism, so thanks for…
Read MoreMy area of northern California is sub-tropical. Meaning, you can grow tender things like citrus and hibiscus most of the time, but then a freeze comes along and you’re back in the 1-gallon department of the garden center. Hawaii is the tropics proper, where plants you think of as indoor/greenhouse babies rioting twenty feet high.…
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