The winners of this week’s contests are… For last week’s puzzle contest, Marc B. won the prize, a mini-broadside of “A Venomous Death.” Send in your solution to this week’s puzzle for your chance to win! Shawn S. won this week’s Goodreads drawing. Over at the Virtual Book Club, we had quite a few winners…
Read MoreThis is week thirteen of this spring’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz, when each Tuesday I post remarks about the background of one of the twenty books. This week, Keeping Watch, published in 2003. I wanted to write a man. Often the seed of one of my books is something that only has significance for me:…
Read MoreWe’ve had quite the puzzling time of it during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, with a total of five brain twisters provided by a few clever fans. This week is your last chance to match wits with our Twenty Weeks puzzles, so head over to the puzzle page and download this week’s Bee-fore and After…
Read MoreI came to Lisbon to write. I got here Friday, following a lot of travel and those days of chaos that precede a long trip, and managed to check my email. Period. The rest of the day was travel and catching up with my daughter and son in law, who have lived here since October.…
Read MoreA series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
Read MoreThe winners of this week’s drawings are: Goodreads winner (mini-broadside): Georgia O. Feb. 27 newsletter drawing winner (of a God of the Hive ARC): Amanda L. Sign up here for a chance to win your own this month! Twitter winner (of a mini-broadside): Ana S. from Portugal And the one you’ve all been waiting for……
Read MoreWhat’s this I see? Mary Russell has a new post over on her MySpace page? Episodes of “A Case in Correspondence” will appear there Wednesdays throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, and on Fridays you can find them here at Mutterings. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up…
Read MoreEach Tuesday during this spring’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’ll be posting about a different one of my twenty books, exploring how each book took shape. This week, Justice Hall, published in 2002. During the Great War, British men and boys as young as 17 arrived in France and were faced by this: Some of…
Read MoreWe had a gratifying number of entries into last week’s “Sherlockism” contest–while I’m mulling them over, you might like to look at them yourself and see if there are any that catch your imagination. (My choice will probably go up mid-week, so you have a couple of days.) And when your grey cells have been…
Read MoreA series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
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