Posts Tagged ‘Twenty Weeks of Buzz’
Puzzle with answers
Here is this week’s puzzle with answers. I hope you enjoyed the game — a winner will be announced here in the next day or two! Thanks to John for his puzzling prowess (certainly puzzling to me!)
Read MoreWhat Sherlock Holmes means to…
Winner of this week’s contest on “What Sherlock Holmes means to me” is Elizabeth Burden. Elizabeth Burden was introduced to Sherlock Holmes at 12 when her father began reading the ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’ out loud to her at bedtime: she retrieved it after her parents went to bed and stayed up all night to…
Read MoreTwenty Weeks of Puzzzzzzle
Oh, I am so glad I don’t have to prove myself on these puzzles contributed by readers! This one is made up of ten titles of my books and 24 character names, which can be found in any direction: up, down, or diagonal, and written either backwards or forwards. The clues will be posted on…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreTwenty 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…
Read MoreWeek Three of Twenty: a Sherlock Holmes contest!
For various reasons too complicated to go into here, the date ascribed to Sherlock Holmes for a birthday is Jan 6, or Epiphany. Every year on a weekend close to that date the Baker Street Irregulars travel to New York (and London—and since some wish to participate in both, the NY and London weekends trade…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreWeek 2, Twenty Weeks of Buzz
This is week 2 of the Word is, people look at blogs for a number of reasons. Pure entertainment, perhaps, or simple information is another, or even that ineffable search for human contact among the electrons, a desire for community and like minds. The idea behind this year’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz is to bring…
Read MoreGOTH 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…
Read MoreTwenty weeks of Russell
Correspondence has been uncovered between Mary Russell and Other Important People, postcards and brief notes which, conveniently enough, divide into twenty parts. Thus during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz we will be following the 1992 (no, that’s not a typo–those old folks do get around!) adventures of the intrepid Russell, posted Wednesdays on her MySpace…
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