Posts by Laurie King
Paranormal, Sex & Culture
I’m still over at Bitten by Books this morning, if there’s something you just always wanted to ask LRK and didn’t have the chance. And they’re giving away a bunch of books–great contests there. And, a reminder that on Saturday I’m with Pam Houston, Stacie Boschma, Sean Stewart, Regina Lynn, and Minal Hajratwala in San Francisco’s Make Out…
Read MoreVampires and…Mary Russell?
Some days I am normal. Others I am a tad paranormal. Today is one of the latter. I’m taking questions and comments over at the ever-thrilling Bitten By Books today, and it will probably spill over onto tomorrow morning, in case your thinking process is delayed. Please join us, read the BbB/LRK interview, and throw…
Read MoreName a character & Russell’s adventures
It’s been a week since we announced this, and we’re a quarter of the way up our goal for the Heifer International fundraiser. So I’ll say again: If you want to name a character (you, your mother, your cat) in the next Russell & Holmes, The Green Man, here’s your chance: just donate two or…
Read MoreWeek ten: posts and giveaways
We’re racing now into week ten of the Fifteen Weeks—two thirds of the way through the celebration, and only 22 days until The Language of Bees goes on sale and LRK hits the road! And it being a Monday, that means Miss Russell is posting over on her Myspace blog, where she and Holmes…
Read MoreFree e-book!
Thanks to the untiring efforts of web maven Vicki and the generosity of Picador Press, from now until tax day you can download a free e-book of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice over at TheBeeisFree.com. Enjoy, tell all your friends, download it onto its various machines, and let us know how you like this. I’m not at…
Read MoreLaurie Loves Libraries
As I may have happened to mention a few hundred times, I adore libraries. I grew up in libraries, libraries snatched up most of the first printing of A Grave Talent, and I revel in my local university’s research library. The Game was dedicated: To the librarians everywhere, who spend their lives in battle against the…
Read MoreStepped out to post
Twenty-seven days until The Language of Bees buzzes across the land. Laurie is not really here (Jedi hand wave across the screen.) This is not the LRK you’re looking for. It’s a blog tour day, so she’s over at the blog Jungle Red, talking to fellow writer Roberta Isleib about Russell and Holmes and…well, lots of…
Read More“A Venomous Death,” 2009
To celebrate the Fifteen Weeks of Bees and support Independent Booksellers, we ran the following drawing in May, 2009. Watch for a similar project in the spring of 2010, for The Green Man. Laurie loves Independents. To show her love, she’s giving a limited edition copy of this gorgeous 14×20” broadside about Russell and Holmes…
Read MoreGood works & immortality
Things are moving along with the LRK fundraiser for Heifer International. In case you haven’t caught this news, every dollar we raise on the Amazon and Cafepress stores by May 21 (Arthur Conan Doyle’s 150th birthday!) will be turned over to Heifer International, to be used to send beehives (or goats—we like goats) to poor…
Read MoreWeek Nine, already?!
More than halfway through the Fifteen Weeks of Bees now, which means only 29 days until the launch party for The Language of Bees! (You have read the first two chapters of the book, right?) Last week, we drew Staci Burr’s name from those who entered the Russell Trivia challenge—congratulations, Staci, you have an ARC…
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