God 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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(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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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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Twenty Weeks of Russell: Week 5

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 this week you can find them here at Mutterings on Thursday. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock…

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Week five of twenty

These “Twenty Weeks of Buzz” make for an interesting exploration of the Brave New World of Internet outreach.  In some ways it feels as if I’m running my own corporation here: producing the product (ie, a book) then packaging and promoting it. In part, this sensation of do-it-yourself is because publishing houses run in seasons…

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GOTH ARC winner!

The first winner of an Advanced Reading Copy of The God of the Hive is Joe Pace, who lives in South Carolina.  Joe’s response was: THANKS SO MUCH- PLEASE SIGN IT-TO MY FELLOW AUTHOR AND ONE WHO HAS LOVED SHERLOCK FOR OVER 50 YEARS-JOE PACE So I did, and the ARC is on its way…

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(Re)Writing God of the Hive

The first excerpt for The God of the Hive is here, to be followed by others on the 27th of January, 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 talking about…

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To everything, a season

There are as many styles of writing as there are writers—and I don’t mean the words on the page; I mean how they get there. I have writer friends who work set hours, every day without fail, year around, as if they were clocking in at a warehouse or office. I know others who take…

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We have a name

After considerable to-ing and fro-ing, most of which was well-mannered, Random House and its author have a name for LRKing’s next book, formerly known as The Green Man, to be published in June 2010: The God of the Hive

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