Episode 12 in the Perils of Russell & Holmes

Week Twelve of Fifteen Weeks of Bees, and over at Myspace, Russell and Holmes are being pursued by a pack of importunate American Sherlockians, who chased the duo from their Sussex home to Oxford. 12. You need to remember, this was 1992, and the number of people who knew that Sherlock Holmes had a wife…

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Red hot links

We got your red-hot links, right here, ground fine and fired up for your enjoyment. First off is a video production of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice.  Well, parts of it.  Actually it’s a video of the Sussex landscape where Russell and Holmes live, with yours truly reading from the book. Then there’s a podcast, or an…

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The perils of Russell

The Amazing Adventures of (92 year old) Mary Russell continues, in her Myspace blog.  Things are beginning to get exciting—the story thus far: In 1992, the rural Sussex home that Ms Russell shared with the aged Sherlock Holmes was invaded by “a ravening pack of Sherlockians.” The Intrepid Duo escape them by ruse and make…

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Week Eleven–and we’re loving libraries!

Hey, kids, it’s National Library Week! Was that a yawn I heard in the back row? Shame on you—especially now that the world is listening to a giant sucking sound as one piece of the economy after another goes down the pipes. Not the library. The library is safe refuge, whether it’s escaping with a…

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Vampires and…Mary Russell?

Some days I am normal.  Others I am a tad paranormal.  Today is one of the latter.  I’m taking questions and comments over at the ever-thrilling Bitten By Books today, and it will probably spill over onto tomorrow morning, in case your thinking process is delayed.  Please join us, read the BbB/LRK interview, and throw…

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Name a character & Russell’s adventures

It’s been a week since we announced this, and we’re a quarter of the way up our goal for the Heifer International fundraiser. So I’ll say again: If you want to name a character (you, your mother, your cat) in the next Russell & Holmes, The Green Man, here’s your chance: just donate two or…

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Week ten: posts and giveaways

We’re racing now into week ten of the Fifteen Weeks—two thirds of the way through the celebration, and only 22 days until The Language of Bees goes on sale and LRK hits the road!   And it being a Monday, that means Miss Russell is posting over on her Myspace blog, where she and Holmes…

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MySpace Contest — Ending Soon!

This week’s contest for the Fifteen Weeks of Bees is perhaps the easiest one yet. Simply leave a comment on Mary Russell’s MySpace blog and your name will be entered in a drawing to win the first four Mary Russell books in paperback. The drawing will take place on the afternoon of Friday February 27,…

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Guest Post — A Striped Armchair

Today we’re making ourselves comfy in A Striped Armchair. Please join me there for my thoughts on writing The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and the many doors it opened to Mary Russell’s further adventures.

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