…and for those of you in foreign lands, just send me the SAE (self-addressed envelope) and I’ll provide the stamp. Those international postage thingumies are far too much of a hassle.

For those of you who couldn’t get to an event or already have a book and don’t want to order a second from my local guy (see my web site’s home page if you’re interested in ordering from him) what about a book plate? I’ve made this offer on the newsletter, but if you aren’t…

I know Barbara Seranella from conferences, mostly’e2’80’94that’e2’80’99s how mystery writers usually meet, since in our daily life we tend to be barnacles, working our own particular patch of the sea bed. Our paths had come together briefly a few times, but not until the Monterey Left Coast Crime were we on assigned to the same…

For those of you who have been following the blog for a while, you may remember I wrote that my son was being deployed to Iraq. Well, he’e2’80’99s back in the States for a while, somewhat leathery from the climate but intact, and although he’e2’80’99ll be going back in a few months, for the time…

My last solo event for LOCKED ROOMS was Tuesday, followed by forty-eight hours of rushing about getting a daughter onto a plane, and then a rare eight-hour night’s sleep. And now I face a stretch of seven weeks of all Martinelli, all the time. We ought to have a name for the book any time…

…and to answer brackman 1066, and all that–the excerpt on which the Locked Rooms section of the crossword is based is from the very beginning of the book, so don’t worry about spoilers.

Seems to me I am an odd choice to speak to a writer’e2’80’99s conference. I’e2’80’99ve never taken so much as a class in writing, not since checking off the English requirement in junior college, and frankly don’e2’80’99t even know the right technical terms for a lot of what I do. However, the 75 or so…

Okay, for those of you who haven’e2’80’99t done the New Yorker’s Laurie King/Mary Russell crossword, you really should. Not only is it a way of telling them (them being my publisher) that you’e2’80’99re paying attention to LRK’e2’80’99s books, but you can actually win a mystery cruise trip that sounds pretty fun. I mean, what’e2’80’99s not…

The interview I did with Kacey Kowars is available on his site, for those of you just dying to hear the dulcet tones of Laurie R. King. And if anyone out there saw the television spot Saturday morning or hears the radio bit today, let me know what you think. I’e2’80’99ve had an entire forty-eight…

Home, sweet home. I had breakfast with my movie agent, who assured me all sorts of things were on the brink of happening, then joined up again with Peerless Ken the escort, who took me to sign at three or four places on the way to Mysteries to Die For in Thousand Oaks. Of course,…