Posts Tagged ‘Twenty Weeks of Buzz’
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…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Week Seven
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…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence, Part 6
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…
Read MoreThursday thrills
Two exciting new projects in the LRK e-universe, at pretty opposite ends of some kind of spectrum: an app and a coloring book. The app is for iPhones, and you can get yours here. It’s still in its infancy, but I am assured that it will be Terribly Useful and will contain All Kinds of…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreWelcome to week six
What do Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Helene Hanff, Dorothy Sayers, and Laurie King have in common? Apart from the obvious, of course? Maybe the titles will nudge your memory: Dracula. Frankenstein. 84 Charing Cross Road. What about, The Documents in the Case (got it now?) And “A Case in Correspondence.” The short story unfolding at…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreThe 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,…
Read MoreTwenty 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…
Read MoreWeek 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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