Monday Mutterings, week 7 of 20

Week seven of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz finds a new puzzle, deciphering a burst of free verse!  And, if you send in your answers by the 14th you’ll be entered for next week’s drawing of a “Venomous Death” mini-broadside OR a genuine LRK t-shirt.  Either will look fabulous on your wall.
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Something I’m really looking [...]

A 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, [...]

Thursday 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 [...]

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, [...]

A Letter of Mary

Tuesdays during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz are given over to a look at each of my twenty books, one each week, with some reflection or bit of information or background about it. This week, A Letter of Mary, published in 1997.

My background is theology, with degrees in Comparative Religion and in Old Testament. [...]

Welcome 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 such [...]

(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 [...]

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 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, and [...]

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, [...]

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