Just got the UK cover for The Murder of Mary Russell, out from Allison & Busby on the same date as in the US, April 5. What do you think? (And no, this is not meant to show the Holmes flint house on the Downs, but a gamekeeper’s cottage from the story.)
Read MoreI got a fab present in the mail the other day: I’m on the map! The artist said it was hard to choose one of the Russell stories, but in the end he was so taken by the secret exit from Mycroft’s flat, that he worked The Language of Bees into it–see it just above…
Read MoreThese NASA/JPL posters are just the coolest thing ever. They make me want to make over my guest room into a space center. Or maybe my own bedroom. Ah, the romance of space travel. I’ll bet the artists read Have Space Suit, Will Travel when they were kids. They’re free for the printing and using, here.…
Read MoreThe list of nominees for this year’s Agatha awards is now up on the Malice Domestic web site. Malice, which takes place in Bethesda the first weekend in May, celebrates “the traditional mystery,” and Dreaming Spies is one of the attendees’ top choices for “Best Historical Mystery.” This is a great honor–I mean, just look…
Read MoreA new short story is born! Yes, yes, a short story isn’t a novel, but it’s a bright and amusing bit of new life that wasn’t here last month, and now is, so: yay, me! (Although “here” is a relative term. It’s here for me. You’ll have to wait until March. Sorry.) Here’s how Random…
Read MoreSo here’s me, from April 5 until April 15:The Murder of Mary Russell will launch at the amazing and wonderfully warm Anderson’s Books (yay!) in Naperville (near Chicago.) They hosted an event for me a year ago—and made a great video interview. So when I learned that I’d be passing through Chicago, I brought forward my bowl to…
Read MoreTwo weeks from today, on Feb 1, a number of my e-short stories will be coming down, vanishing, going underground (except, of course, if they’re already on your reader.) These stories won’t be for sale again until Random House publishes my collection of Russell & Holmes tales in October (as an ebook, though possibly, eventually,…
Read MoreA book’s first review is always cause for nerves. Do they like it? Did they understand what I was trying to do–which means, did I do it right? The first one for The Murder of Mary Russell is gorgeous, thank you very much. And because Kirkus reviewers tend to give a lot of the plot away, I’ve…
Read MoreEchoes of Sherlock Holmes will be out in September–just in time for BoucherCon! We have a remarkable set of contributors for this, the third collection of “stories inspired by the Holmes canon” that Les Klinger and I have put together. Gorgeous cover, too–and just drool over those names: I’ll let you know when the book…
Read MoreI had one of those little pop-up notices on my screen yesterday to remind me that today was Mary Russell’s birthday. However, there’s a certain…discrepancy between that fact (along with the undeniable fact that someone continues to Tweet as Mary Russell) and the problematic title of the next Memoir: Now, I’m sure we can come up with solutions to this…
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