Posts Tagged ‘writing’
Higher Mysteries podcast
My buddy Rick Kleffel has posted his podcasts of the Higher Mysteries panel, in which four top-ranking crime writers talk about using religion and theology in their work, on his web site, The Agony Column: “You’re all here for Tax Law 101, right?” —Laurie R. King For all the seriousness of her premise, Laurie R.…
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Last month, you may recall, I urged you to drop what you were doing and come to listen to four fabulous ladies (or anyway, three fabulous ladies and me) talk about how we use religion and theology when writing crime fiction. There’s a podcast on its way, but the excellent video has just gone up…
Read MoreThese Bones are alive!
The page proofs for The Bones of Paris are come, and gone. This is a time of considerable rejoicing chez King because after this, I NEVER HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK EVER AGAIN. Except to flip through and choose bits for reading aloud, and maybe off in the future when I’m about to write the…
Read MoreThe Mystery of a Good Event
What makes for a good event? Well, it helps when a moderator is working with three wicked smart women with lightning-fast tongues and a great sense of humor. And it also helps when the crowd is equally quick on their feet and genuinely interested in the subject. (This shows about half those who eventually crowded…
Read MoreHigher Mysteries, Santa Cruz style
Tuesday night finds me in rapt conversation with three other Ladies of Mystery, talking about how we use religion and theology in our crime fiction, and why. The panel will be podcast, and possibly videotaped (yes yes, I know they don’t use tape any more…) but if you’re anywhere in the vicinity, come and join…
Read MoreGarment of Shadows
March 4, 2012. I open a FedEx envelope from my publishers and find this: It is accompanied by a letter, giving a deadline: So I get to work, reading the manuscript aloud, using a red pen to correct spelling errors, change punctuation oddities, and make small corrections to smooth and clarify the story. I find…
Read MoreCartographer King
A writer’s life is not all words on a page. A working writer finds herself doing an extraordinary number of odd jobs, such as the day I spent tracking down the identity of an insect the publisher intended to use as the illustration for a new edition of Beekeeper’s Apprentice: No, I said firmly, that…
Read MoreIndies and Es
I promised yesterday that I would post today on the question of Independent Booksellers and their relationship with eBooks, and here we are. Yes, Indies sell eBooks, more and more Indies all the time. They (and I, frankly) have too long been frustrated by watching their customers browse the shelves, stand reading a book for…
Read MoreTo E or not to E?
(Because this post has become a bit longer than I’d intended, I’ll divide it in half, with the first part All About Laurie, and the more important bit tomorrow.) Twice a year, publishers send their authors a royalty statement (and, with luck, a check to go with it.) These are daunting documents, page after page…
Read MoreThe two-way pull
By the time I sent off the copyedit of Garment of Shadows the first week of January, my brain was empty of words. In the last year, I’ve written short stories and introductions, guest blogs, essays, & silly stuff to do with the Pirate King publication, my half of The Arvon Book of Crime Writing,…
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