A Case in Correspondence: Week Six

What’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…

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(Re)writing GotH II

The second excerpt for The God of the Hive is here, with more to follow on the 27th of February and March. For those curious about the creative process (who among us is not?) each will be followed by a post showing the first draft of that section, with brief remarks about the rewrite process.…

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A Case of Correspondence, Part 5

A 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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The God of the Hive, part two

The second excerpt of The God of the Hive (pub date 27 April) can be found through the book’s web page: in which we catch a glimpse of Sherlock Holmes, dodging responsibility. If you come back here to Mutterings on the 29th, you can see what the original draft of this same section looked like,…

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A Case of Correspondence, Part 4

A 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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Twenty Weeks of Russell: Week Four

What’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, and here Fridays, throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up to now? ** This is the one-year…

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A Case of Correspondence: Part 3

A 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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Twenty Weeks of Russell: Week 3

The third exciting episode of “A Case in Correspondence” is posted over at Mary Russell’s blog–AND, the formerly hidden fronts of the postcards have appeared in the Mutterings posts for the previous two Fridays (here and then here)! Watch here for this week’s card as it came to me, in Russell’s own hand. I’m heading…

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A Case of Correspondence: Part 2

A 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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A Case of Correspondence: Part 1

Correspondence has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the upcoming Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo—those old folks do get around!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The Case of the Ravening Sherlockians.) The current saga posts in its prose…

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