Posts by Laurie King
GOTH 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 MoreA Case of Correspondence: Part 1
Correspondence has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the upcoming Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo—those old folks do get around!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The Case of the Ravening Sherlockians.) The current saga posts in its prose…
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…
Read More(Re)Writing God of the Hive
The first excerpt for The God of the Hive is here, to be followed by others on the 27th of January, 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 talking about…
Read MoreNo Great Women Artists?
A part of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz will be a retrospective of the LRK oeuvre—a fancy way of saying that I’ll be looking at each of my twenty books, a week at a time. We begin with A Grave Talent, the first Kate Martinelli novel, published January 1993 (Edgar and Creasey awards for Best…
Read MoreUnder construction
In a transparent bid to build anticipation and heighten interest, various elements of the web site are currently under construction, and won’t work when you expect them to. This means that if you’re trying to post a comment here on Mutterings, you’ll have to try again later. Maybe even tomorrow. It is all a part…
Read MoreTwenty Weeks of Buzzz
Hear ye, hear ye: Thus begins the— Four months from today The God of the Hive will appear on bookshelves across the land. Twenty weeks from now, we’ll announce grand prize winners—more on those later. In fact, there’ll be more on a whole lot about the Twenty Weeks of Buzz in coming weeks, with contests,…
Read MoreTurkeys and writers
Happy Christmas, everyone. And as you’re sitting at your table tomorrow, bloated and dyspeptic and stunned by the tryptophan in your roasted meleagris, you may find yourself wondering, How did Laurie King come to be a writer? Well, if you are able to stagger as far as your computer screen, you can have your answer,…
Read MoreFlowers for Christmas dinner
Jeezie Louisie, I look up from digging myself out from under a pile of papers and computer tasks and find that in nine days we’ll be sitting down to the traditional pumpkin pie breakfast with a heap of wrappings burying the carpet. How the hell did that happen? What happened to the memo cancelling November?…
Read MorePlates for books
What, oh what to give for the holidays? Something that demonstrates economic responsibility but doesn’t feel repressive; something fun yet with substance; something personal but not icky. A book? Maybe even a signed one? If that’s your choice, here’s for you: bookplates, of three flavors: with the cover of The Language of Bees or The…
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