by Mary | Jul 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
Every morning the news delivers you a fresh list of horribles. Conflict around the world. Environmental degradation. Threats and disasters, rancor and misery…There’s not a lot you can do about all that, but when you’re a Smile Train donor, you get...
by Mary | Jul 23, 2012 | What I'm working on now., Writer Tech, WYATT
Wyatt has been absorbing most of my mental energy lately, which is why nobody has heard much from me. I recently sent the first half of the manuscript (290 pages) to a fresh reader, and she alerted me to a serious imbalance in the way the story was developing. It took...
by Mary | Jun 20, 2012 | DOC, DREAMERS OF THE DAY
Summer in the Russell household. Hot weather. Baseball on the flat-screen. Dachshund sleeping, belly up, on the sofa. Around the 7th inning, I reach for the iPod and check my email. Last night there were five messages… Yes. Uh-huh. Okay… And then, while I...
by Mary | Jun 18, 2012 | Current events
Reviewed for the Cleveland Plain Dealer by Mary Doria Russell, June 17, 2012: Let me begin by saying what this book isn’t. It isn’t an easy beach read and it isn’t about dogs. The evocative title The Hour Between Dog and Wolf refers to the medieval...
by Mary | Jun 2, 2012 | Current events, Writer Tech
Hello. My name is Mary, and I am a recovering anthropologist. It’s been over 20 years since I worried about tenure, but I suppose I will always be an anthropologist. As Ray Bucko, my dearest Jesuit friend, once told me, “Having a Ph.D. is a permanent condition –...
by Mary | May 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
Just wanted to let you know that you can now order signed copies of my novels from Mac’s Backs – Books on Coventry. Either click on that link or use the ORDER A COPY drop-down menu on any of the book pages within my website. If you want more than a...
by Mary | Apr 27, 2012 | THE SPARROW, The Sparrow movie
The Sparrow remains unfilmed, after 15 years of sustained effort by people passionate about getting a movie adaptation produced. What’s the problem? Here’s the conventional wisdom. There’s a big market for science fiction action movies, but despite...
by Mary | Apr 9, 2012 | Uncategorized, What I'm working on now., Writer Tech
Reviewed for the Cleveland Plain Dealer by Mary Doria Russell, April 8, 2012: Novels. Symphonies. Wonder drugs. Scientific breakthroughs. Live performances that bring you to tears. That moment when a bat launches a ball toward the bleachers with a swing so sweet, it...
by Mary | Mar 23, 2012 | Just for fun!, The Cure For Anger, What I'm working on now.
March 22, 2012 7:40 AM Woke up feeling rested; I’m exercising again and sleeping better. Minimal bed-head, so I don’t look scary when I head downstairs to say bye to my husband. Don is on his way out of the house to have breakfast with his mom before he...
by Mary | Mar 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
“Tickets for the gunfight?” That’s the question I heard over and over during the past few days. Spring break is the busiest two weeks in the Tombstone, Arizona, tourist season. I was signing copies of Doc while hundreds of people shuffled past the...
