Mary Russell is posting Tweets all day for Remembrance Day, from the diary of Gabriel Hughenfort. Russell, Holmes, and Mrs Hudson paused for silence at 11 am their time, in Sussex. Follow her here. (War photographer Helen Johns Kirtland in the trenches.)
Read MoreFunny, how things come together. This week, I’ve been working my way through my MA thesis, concerning the feminine aspects of Yahweh, trying to get it into shape for e-publication. At the same time I’ve been writing an essay for Sisters in Crime on the topic, “Belonging.” Which means I’ve had two things on my…
Read MoreSo, Laurie’s been posting a lot of weird stuff this week: now that it’s Hallowe’en, is she going to get truly disgusting? Fear not, the creep factor in today’s post is along the theoretical and long-term lines. The story “Hellbender” contains elements of genetic manipulation, in which DNA of one species is blended with that…
Read MoreAs a crime writer, I entertain with the stuff of nightmares. Murder and mayhem, kidnapping and political manipulation, all the things nobody wants, but everyone secretly desires to have faced. But every so often, I’ll slip a real nightmare into my fictional creations. Just a handful of times, something personal make the trip from my…
Read More(Now! With fewer disgusting pictures!) So, you read yesterday’s post on taxidermy and you think you’d like to try it yourself? Great! You, too, can be a forensic anthropologist. All you need is something that’s died, and a handful of these: (From here.) (You can get a beetle kit, or other taxidermy supplies, online. Of…
Read MoreOne of the characters in The Bones of Paris is an artist whose work includes taxidermy. His is a somewhat kinkier version of the Victorian…artist?…Walter Potter, whose work includes scenes like this: (You can read more about him here.) But lest you think Paris is without its stuffed creatures, I bring to your attention Maison…
Read MoreHalloween is fast approaching, and since I’ve had both bones and weird stories on my mind of late, here’s a fun All Hallow’s video that Harris Stuyvesant might well have seen during his time in Paris: My own Paris Bones are here, with excerpts & extras. And the spooky urban-fantasy PI of “Hellbender” is here.
Read MoreMike Heller, a PI with some….extra skills, whose client is a blonde too gorgeous to be believed. She wants him to find her missing brother. He finds a whole lot more than that. LRK does urban fantasy. This appeared in the anthology Down These Strange Streets a few years ago, but now it stands on its own,…
Read MoreJust in time for your All Hallows reading pleasure: Mike Heller, a PI with some….extra skills, whose client is a blonde too gorgeous to be believed. She wants him to find her missing brother. He finds a whole lot more than that. LRK does urban fantasy. This appeared in the anthology Down These Strange Streets a…
Read MoreSan Francisco and books: can’t have one without the other, I’d say. And the annual SF book festival is about to explode all over the streets of The City. Including yours truly: Come and join us at the ever-fabulous Books Inc on Saturday afternoon. And it’s free! Details are here.
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