Posts Tagged ‘Garment of Shadows’
A party!
This Sunday is the annual garden party at the Sussex home of Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. But before you get out the car or book tickets, let me tell you that it’s all online, and all in the communal imagination. That’s right: a Twitter party. Russell and Holmes have done this twice before, only…
Read MoreNewsletter drawing
A last group of Garment of Shadows ARCs will go out to ten people on the newsletter mailing list. We’ll do the drawing on Tuesday, so if you’re not signed up for the newsletter, you might like to drop in on the web site and stick your name here. Good luck!
Read MoreWhat do I want in a book cover?
First of all, I want it to evoke the book without giving away the plot. (Garment of Shadows: young woman in Western clothes gazes at a vaguely North African landscape: check.) Then, it needs to catch the eyes from across a crowded bookstore—or as a 2” version on a screen. (Rich glow of color; a…
Read MoreWrap-up
Thanks to everyone who sent in a comment over the last ten days—and congratulations to the winners (although Betsy Chamberlin and Elizabeth Copley, you might want to check your email if you’d like an ARC because we haven’t heard from you yet!) And actually, I apologize for inflicting the task of a daily comment on…
Read MoreRome in Africa
Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings for a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Among other oddities of this extraordinary country, Morocco was part of the Roman empire. As Hadrian’s Wall, between England and Scotland, marked the northern point of Rome’s West, the city of Volubilis occupied its south-western fringes.…
Read MoreThe city gates
Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings for a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Fez remains a walled city, as it was in 1924 when Russell and Holmes walked its streets, as it was for the centuries before that. Cars are kept out by the high adobe bricks, the population…
Read MoreA very local economy
Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings, and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. One of the fascinating things about Fez is the way the crafts of everyday life are created where they are used: need a shirt, a chair, a bowl? They’re still made down the street,…
Read MoreLyautey’s Fez
Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings, and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. In 1924, Morocco was a protectorate, under the administration of France to the south and Spain to the north. The Spanish portion was, simply speaking, a disaster, with years of oppression that erupted into…
Read MoreGarment of Shadows giveaway
Random House did a fabulous giveaway over at Goodreads last month. (Sorry, everyone who won and is now writing me to say they stayed up until 3 in the morning. And sorry, too, everyone who didn’t win, and got a full night’s sleep instead.) Now they’ve set aside another dozen Advanced Reading Copies to give…
Read MoreGarment of Shadows: Booklist love
A writer with a book on the brink of publication always holds her breath until the first shoe drops: will reviewers like the new book? Or will this be the one that exposes me for a fraud and a wastrel? Instead of the shoe dropping, will its owner come pounding down the stairs and stomp…
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