Posts by Laurie King
Patience rewarded
Those of you who get the newsletter will know this, but for newcomers to the game, here it is. Sound the trumpets and draw back the drapes the latest creation in the Laurie King electronic universe: The Laurie R. King Virtual Book Club, or, LRK VBC. That’s right, a book club where readers don’t have…
Read MoreBaba
Mary Jane Dickson was born May 21, 1922, in San Francisco, to two survivors of the 1906 earthquake and fire (the link shows a photo of Mary in her mother’s belly.) She grew up on the peninsula south of San Francisco, but after high school moved back to The City to work at The Emporium.…
Read MoreWhat IS happening, anyway?
Patience is not one of the stronger characteristics of the Internet universe. After all, aren’t blogs and web sites the very definition of ephemeral? So I have to thank you all for your patience with this remarkably slow process of getting a book club underway. The official announcement is coming out soon, certainly before the…
Read MoreHigh priests and sacrifice
Can anyone out there explain to me what it IS with tech people? I mean, I expect the lack of social skills that means most of them don’t actually speak English and they punctuate every conversation with long, exasperated sighs, but at the end of it, isn’t the whole thing a little counter-productive it they…
Read MoreWelcome to the new Mutterings!
You found your way here, thanks for persisting, but have you seen the shiny new look on the LRK web site to your left? Just the first of many changes, so keep checking with us. But before we get all excited about things, we need to tidy up the Q&As that came in for May…
Read MoreA nice start to the day?
Well, friends, perhaps I should apologize for urging you to sign up for Booked for Breakfast, what with that real downer of the lady’s dead mother on Tuesday and the oddity of my most recent book being Folly, followed today by my most recent book being The Art of Deception. I agree, a much better…
Read MoreElaine Viets and the art of book marketing
[There’s supposed to be a nice cheery book cover here, but those of you who read my last post won’t be surprised that Blogger won’t let me post it. Sigh. But you can see it and some other nice stuff at http://www.elaineviets.com ] Back in December, some of you may remember a essay by Elaine…
Read MoreConstipation
My name is Laurie, and I am a dialup connector. This is a shameful state of connection, I confess. And I swear, it’s not entirely my fault. I have honestly tried to connect in a more up to date fashion, but the world doesn’t want me, certainly not enough to lay its high-speed cable to…
Read MoreEdgars Thursday
The Wednesdays of Edgars week are for the symposium, when people shell out money for a day of panels and an interview with that year’s Grand Master, in this case, my distant (very, very distant) cousin, Stephen King. And although it’s intended for writers new to the business, I often shell out my own ninety…
Read MoreEdgars week, 2007
And a big Hey There from La Manzana Grande. My daughter and I are here for the Edgars, the week where the mystery world tells itself that things are cool, and we’re all on the top of the pile, literarily speaking. So we flew in on Monday, in a United flight out of San Francisco…
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