We are celebrating two decades of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice with a brand new Companion volume, which answers many questions and, I fear, raises others regarding Miss Russell and her world. Much of the material is either newly written or published for the first time. For example, several short stories that were written for other purposes… A…
Read MoreEvery year, LRK—and her readers!—celebrate National Library Week and our love for libraries with a contest. The theme of 2012 was “Thrills in the Stacks”. 2013 (LRK’s 20th anniversary as a writer) was, “If a Martian asked me what a ‘library’ was…” (That fabulous winning story, by our own fabulous Sabrina We-Knew-Her-When Flynn) is…
Read MoreIn the twenty years since The Beekeeper’s Apprentice introduced Mary Russell to the world, many questions have been raised about the good lady, and about her relationship with Sherlock Holmes, her religious beliefs, her Oxford college, what kind of car she drives—and just where on the Sussex Downs is that house of hers, anyway? In a fervent…
Read More…continues, with four cartons of Mary Russell books left to award in our Book Club in A Box giveaway. If you have a library a) that you love and b) that hosts book clubs, and if you haven’t sent us their name yet, do so now. Email it to me at: info@laurierking.com The next drawing…
Read MoreThis is Small Business Week, celebrating American entrepreneurs. Which makes for a nice irony, in that the business practices of Amazon against Hachette books has recently come to light. I am not published by Hachette, but many of my friends are, and many of the books on my shelves come from that house. However, contract…
Read MoreI’m moving around England, using research as an excuse for seeing something of this gorgeous May countryside. Yesterday I walked all over Oxford, finding one new museum and another one that has closed down, leaving only a vestige in the corner of the Town Hall. Also bookstores, of course. I have been staying in the…
Read MoreSherlock Holmes admits to Watson that his book on beekeeping is “the fruit of pensive nights and laborious days”. Now, I would not dare to compare my own modest efforts with those of The Master, however, The Mary Russell Companion (an ebook) is indeed the result of pensive evenings and hard-working daylight hours. Many of…
Read MoreWould you like a complete set of Mary Russell novels? You know, Mary Russell, whose first Memoir, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, was published twenty years ago this spring? What if they were the gorgeous UK Russells? And maybe, hardbacks? (I’ll even toss in the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, as well!) If you’d like this pile…
Read MoreThis week I: – Sent Dreaming Spies in to my editor, waited a day, and received back word that she adores it, that it’s the most perfect thing I’ve ever written, and that perhaps more to the point, she’s going to send me a check. – Finished my parts of The Mary Russell Companion, coming to…
Read MoreThe first drawing for one library’s Book Club in a Box will be Friday. Have you nominated your favorite library for this book club’s worth of Russells? Send their name to info@laurierking.com with the subject line Library, and–good luck, this or the next six giveaways!
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