Mysterious California

I love libraries.  I adore them, always and continuously. My abiding affection had a boost last night, with an event in the Sunnyvale (CA) library, where some of the staff remembered me as part of an event—oh, how many years ago could it have been?  Thirteen? Fourteen?—with Sisters in Crime authors.  This time it was…

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Pirate ready to sail!

Pirate King sets sail three months from today!  That means it’s time for: Details of the contests, drawings, and piratical shenanigans will be given in weeks to come, but for the moment, you should know from here on out, the excerpts will be given first in the LRK newsletter, then some days later on the…

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Pub Night Live!

This just in from Will at Poisoned Pen Central: This is Will from The Poisoned Pen. We will be webcasting this event 7pm MST, and you can tune in on our blog www.poisonedfiction.blogspot.com(click the webcast tab) or at www.livestream.com/poisonedpenauthorevent Once the event is over the video will be available for replay, so you DON’T necessarily…

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A Night at the Pub (Poisoned Pen style)

Tomorrow’s a Night at the Pub at Poisoned Pen Books, Scottsdale, complete with a keg, crisps, atmospheric fog (!) and some giveaways (a drawing of the signed broadsheet, “Birth of a Green Man,” by LRK.)  And these: The night’s theme fits Willis’s double story told in Blackout and All Clear . In Blackout, Connie Willis…

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Lunch (tea?) with Laurie!

Want to win Lunch with Laurie? (or tea, or brunch..?) The Carmel Bach Festival is holding a fund-raiser and auctioning off, among other things, a time with this author. Here’s their link, the auction finishes August 1st, and the time and place (local to me) is to be worked out.

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Whew—twenty weeks!

Back in December, we opened up a new and beautiful web site, and kicked off the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, to celebrate and speculate about my books. I chose the number because The God of the Hive would be my twentieth novel, and I wanted to write a brief essay about each book.  I also…

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Online & 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…

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Sparks 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…

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20 Weeks of…colouring books?

Week eight of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz: Monday we say hello (Hi there!) while the Virtual Book Club gets into the meat of Folly.  Tuesday I post a blog about writing A Darker Place and then jump on a plane for Scottsdale, where Dana Stabenow is having a Poisoned Pen Party to launch A…

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Thursday thoughts

Congratulations to Lori D. in Redwood City and Bruce C. of Stratham New Hampshire, in the sun and in the snow, who won copies of “A Venomous Death” for their brilliant jobs in, well, joining into the Twenty Weeks of Buzz fun—Lori read her newsletter and Bruce is on Goodreads. Enjoy the Further Adventures of…

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