Posts Tagged ‘Contests’
Lost in the medina
I am currently in Morocco, eating the world’s most gorgeous cooking and wandering the narrow streets of Fes. I’ll post a photo or ten when I return to Lisbon later in the week, but in the meantime, don’t forget that this week’s contest is “My Fantasy Library,” with the description and details here. Send your…
Read MoreAnd the winners are…
The 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 MoreSherlock puzzles
We 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 MoreThe happening place
I’m in Los Angeles for Left Coast Crime, the mystery conference for the country’s looser nuts. It doesn’t begin until this afternoon, which leaves me a few hours to frantically catch up on work. And to write a blog telling about how I’m frantically catching up on work, which seems like cheating, somehow. In any…
Read MoreIt’s raining Sherlockisms!
The Sherlockism is a pithy turn of phrase as favored by Mr Sherlock Holmes: * “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” * “I saw no one.” “That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.” * “I believe that you are the devil himself!” he cried. Holmes smiled at the compliment.…
Read MoreOnline & up and down the Coast
We’ve had some absolutely fantabulous entries into the Russellscape project this week, you can see them at the bottom of the home page, here, where you’ll also find a link to the instructions for doing one of your own—come on, get those pencils/paints/scissors-and-glue going! We’ve also had an amazing, gorgeous Illustrated MyStory that we’ll post…
Read MoreA Puzzling event, Watson
P U Z Z L E U Z Z L E X C E L L E N T …….R …….O …….S …….S …….W …….O …….R …….DO IT HERE AND WIN A PRIZE That’s right, the wicked puzzler Marjorie has set another crossword, to eat up your hours between now and the end of…
Read MoreSparks of pleasure
Yesterday I mailed out three copies of the small “A Venomous Death” to winners from the newsletter list, Goodreads, and Twitter. Three happy people—Elena, Janice, and someone whose name declares they will not make toast—will get a message from Russell in their mailbox this week. One of the side benefits of being a writer is…
Read MoreNine lads a-leaping?
Week nine of our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, with two items of interest: first, Saturday the newsletter goes out, we draw a name from those who open it for an ARC of The God of the Hive, and we post excerpt three of the book on the site—the first two excerpts can be seen here.…
Read MoreGod of the Hive giveaway
Random House is doing a quickie giveaway of God of the Hive ARCs over here at Goodreads. If you aren’t a Goodreads member, it’s quite easy to become one, and there are 75 copies of the book being given away. Unfortunately, the contest is currently scheduled to close at midnight Sunday–sorry about the late notification.
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