Posts by Laurie King
Week twelve: research
The excellent Tony Broadbent, whose books I adore (surely Jethro the cat burglar and Mary Russell met, sometime?) asks, what is the proper collective noun for a set of Russells? A hive? A buzz? A sting? He nominates honey-pot—and please note: pot, not bucket. The lady in question has posted a Myspace blog today, for…
Read MoreLaurie(‘s readers) love libraries
Thank you, everyone who sent us a love letter to a library. We had dozens of entries, many of them moving or amusing, or both—and I wish you would all now send your letter to the library in question, to let them know you’re thinking of them. It was very hard to choose one from…
Read MoreWriting with a bulldozer
I had some questions about the seder songs I talked about last week. My son-in-law’s sister tells me she took them from here and here, so now you’re all set for next year, right? ***** This week I sent the first draft of the next book to my editor. The Green Man is nothing near…
Read MoreRed hot links
We got your red-hot links, right here, ground fine and fired up for your enjoyment. First off is a video production of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice. Well, parts of it. Actually it’s a video of the Sussex landscape where Russell and Holmes live, with yours truly reading from the book. Then there’s a podcast, or an…
Read MoreA bitchin’ post
When I was young and rude, as opposed to middle aged and rude, the word “bitchin” was a term of praise. It is in that sense of the word that I invite you to join me over at Bookbitch, a bitchin’ blog about books. And don’t forget to give me your love letter to a…
Read MoreThe perils of Russell
The Amazing Adventures of (92 year old) Mary Russell continues, in her Myspace blog. Things are beginning to get exciting—the story thus far: In 1992, the rural Sussex home that Ms Russell shared with the aged Sherlock Holmes was invaded by “a ravening pack of Sherlockians.” The Intrepid Duo escape them by ruse and make…
Read MoreWeek Eleven–and we’re loving libraries!
Hey, kids, it’s National Library Week! Was that a yawn I heard in the back row? Shame on you—especially now that the world is listening to a giant sucking sound as one piece of the economy after another goes down the pipes. Not the library. The library is safe refuge, whether it’s escaping with a…
Read MoreLiterary sex
If, as Kurt Vonnegut declares, unusual travel invitations are dancing lessons from God, then the invites have been running hot this week. Wednesday’s memorable seder was followed by last night’s…reading? at the Make-Out Room in San Francisco. Minal Hajratwala’s memories of her Indian family, Stacie Boschma’s slam reading that was the very definition of performance…
Read MoreSeders and other riotous entertainment
I went to a seder on Wednesday with my new family—the family my daughter married into—and found it…unlike other seders I’d been to. Sing to the tune of “Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”: Just a tad of haroset helps the bitter herbs go down, The bitter herbs go down, the…
Read MoreArmageddon and other inconveniences
The world ended today, here in Santa Cruz County. Vandals cut through several fiber optic cables and dumped a hefty patch of Northern California into the 1980s. Tens of thousands of people were completely cut off from the world. Computers did not communicate, cell phones went silent, land lines hummed with the noise of desperate…
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