Lockdown’s Hallowe’en

The other day I did a Halloween reading for a fund-raiser lunch, which reminded me of this, from Lockdown. Happy all hallow’s week… 107 DAYS AGO OCTOBER 31 Olivia When the call came in, Olivia thought it was just another Halloween prank. Olivia hated Halloween—and had long before she become a cop. Maybe it wouldn’t…

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Lockdown & New Guinea

One of the earliest sections written in what eventually became Lockdown was a story set in Papua New Guinea. I spent some months there in late 1970s, on my honeymoon (because yes, what else do academics do for a honeymoon than go visit a Stone Age community?) which makes for one of those illustrations that a…

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Lockdown re-appears!

My standalone Lockdown comes out in paperback today! Lockdown is a story of community. It’s a mosaic of a tale, about a day where all the lives in a school intersect: the cop and the would-be gang member, the principal’s mysterious husband with and his friendship with the school janitor, a girl with secrets and a kid…

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Love for Lockdown

My friends at Deadly Pleasures Magazine have given Lockdown a lovely long review. I hope they don’t mind, but I think I’ll post the whole thing here–and, they named it one of their Best Novels of 2017. Thank you, Deadly Pleasures! Readers would be justified in thinking that with a title like Lockdown, the new…

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Building a book

I’m giving a talk this Thursday, based on the Santa Cruz library’s summer theme of Reading by Design.  Join me, and bring all your friends!  

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Laurie on the wireless

I’m talking on the radio, with Larry Meiller, on Monday morning from 9 to 9:45. Join us—and if you have questions, here’s your chance! Tune in here—Larry’s a great interviewer.

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Kepler’s and me

Thanks to everyone who came out to see me talk about Lockdown during the past week–although if you’re in the Bay Area, you can still come down and see me one more time, tomorrow night at Kepler’s.  Send ’em a RSVP, here.

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Portland, I’m coming!

Today I get to play at Powell’s, that extensive shrine to the printed word. This is the downtown store, at 2:00 this afternoon. Do join me–details are here.  

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Seattle Friday

I’m having such fun with this book tour, I think I’ll set off up the coast today and drop by the Seattle Mystery Bookshop, then swing past the University bookstore, before ending up with a reading and talk at the great Third Place Books. Come and join us!

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Lockdown day 2

I’ll be flitting up the length of the Bay Area today, dropping in at various Copperfields and Books Inc shops in Petaluma, Santa Rosa, and San Francisco for the odd ritual of scrawling my name on a lot of title pages, then at 6:00 turning up at Book Passage in the Ferry Building for an…

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