Posts by Laurie King
Recovery
I spent yesterday in recovery, as much of the country did. Watching the television Tuesday night felt like watching the plane go into the towers on 9/11: shock and disbelief and a terrible knowledge that somewhere, there were people watching that same horror and celebrating. And before you rise up in indignation, no, I am…
Read MoreThe Zinoviev email
Dirty tricks and October Surprises are nothing new. Four days before the 1924 general election, the conservative Daily Mail published a letter they claimed was written by a senior Russian Communist (Grigorii Zinoviev) to the British Communist Party. These were their headlines: The letter made it clear that the socialist Labour government were little more…
Read MoreWar’s new face
Another typically dashing cover from my English publishers, Allison & Busby: Their e-book edition will be out the first part of November, with the print to follow in the spring. What do you think?
Read MoreTitles that do their job
I’ve been talking about the next book for a while now, using its working title, Career Day. And the name was fine as a place holder, but not exactly enticing, or even terribly descriptive other than giving an idea of what was going on at the school where the story is set. But it now has a name. Ready?…
Read MoreMary-o-prizes
Two days left to win! GRAND PRIZE: a complete set of Russell & Holmes paperbacks, including Mary Russell’s War & other stories * FIRST RUNNER-UP: Four full-sized illustrated broadsheets * FIVE RUNNERS-UP: a collection of art from “The Illustrated Russell & Holmes” For instructions, go here. And–work fast!
Read MoreTravels & Travails
[A letter, to those of you who don’t see my News.] I’m not sure if you, my dear Friends and Readers, have all just been super busy with the new academic year, or too swept up in the election to focus on anything but else, but the deadline is fast approaching for a contest that…
Read MoreEchoes of Holmes, Ephron, Gardiner, & Krueger
More teasing tidbits from Echoes of Sherlock Holmes. Understudy in Scarlet by Hallie Ephron It’s not an open casting call, Angela Cassano realizes as she takes in the emptiness of director Glenn Lancaster’s outer office. The gloomy space, on the second floor over storefronts on Santa Monica in Beverly Hills, has rough stucco walls painted…
Read MoreEchoes of Holmes, Perry, & Lee
The last couple of samples from Echoes of Sherlock Holmes, and these are goodies. Raffa by Anne Perry It was one of the nicest hotels in London. The dining room was suitably lush, sombre and filled with the chink of china and the delicate odours of coffee and bacon, but Marcus St. Giles was unimpressed…
Read MoreEchoes of Holmes, Phillips & Ryan
Two tasty morsels from Echoes of Sherlock Holmes for you today… Martin X by Gary Phillips The dean of black empowerment lay dead on the worn throw rug. A ragged bullet hole violated Professor Lincoln Barrow’s wrinkled forehead. He was dressed in slacks and slippers, a ratty robe splayed open over an athletic T-shirt covering his…
Read MoreEchoes of Holmes, McPherson, Mina, & Morrell
That’s right: more samples from Echoes of Sherlock Holmes… The First Mrs Coulter by Catriona McPherson Miss Cordelia Grant did not mourn the world of damp dressing rooms, damper lodgings and Sunday travel in a third-class railway carriage. True, her current role – lady’s maid to Mrs Gilver – was performed on a smaller stage…
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