Some exciting things this week on LRK-world, week four of the Fifteen Weeks of Bees. First, you’ve seen Mary Russell’s latest post over on her Myspace blog? We’ll post the same episode of her ongoing story on Mutterings tomorrow, however, the drawing we’re doing this week will go to someone who posts a comment on…
Read MoreThe winner of this week’s Mary Russell word puzzle drawing is Emily Rivard. She won a complete set of the first four Mary Russell novels in paperback from Picador Books. Congratulations Emily!
Read MoreThese are pages six and seven of the final draft of The Language of Bees. The tentative first draft here has a clear sense (to the author, anyway) of where it is going and what needs to take place here, at the beginning, to set the scene for the pages to come. >
Read MoreToday we’re making ourselves comfy in A Striped Armchair. Please join me there for my thoughts on writing The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and the many doors it opened to Mary Russell’s further adventures.
Read MoreThis is page four of the original first draft of The Language of Bees. The equivalent pages of the final draft will be posted on Friday, following my guest post at A Striped Armchair tomorrow. (For a bonus, read her review of Beekeeper’s Apprentice today!)
Read MoreThe Poisoned Pen bookstore is hosting Laurie and Dana Stabenow tonight, February 17, at 7 PM MST as they celebrate the launch of Dana’s new book, Whisper to the Blood. If you can’t be there in person, watch the live feed of the event here or at the Poisoned Pen blog.
Read MoreFollow Mary Russell’s account of the story behind how and why Laurie R. King came to have the Russell/Holmes memoirs, as described in Laurie’s prefaces to the first four Russell books. Further chapters to come each week during the Fifteen Weeks of Bees every Monday on Myspace, or Tuesdays in Laurie R. King’s blog, Mutterings.…
Read MoreOne of the things I’ve discovered, as I’ve become more involved in the web, is that the community of people devoted to my books is a richly varied and wildly talented one. By way of example, “Laidee Marjorie,” a regular on the Virtual Book Club, loves to create puzzles. So the contest for this week’s…
Read MoreToday’s post is brought to you by the letter–er, no, we’re not on Sesame Street today. We’re on the excellent Reading Group Guides blog instead, carrying on about Items of interest to Laurie (and, we hope, to others). Join me here.
Read MoreThese are pages four and five of the final draft of The Language of Bees. My first drafts tend to be brief, with sections that are skeletal, as I feel my way through the plot and the situation. The rewrite for a 350 page first draft, for example, tends to end up at around 450…
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