Posts by Laurie King
Writing Beginnings
Writes of Passage is a collection of essays on writing from Sisters in Crime authors. My piece, on finding a community (yes, that’s you guys,) brought up the end position. The publishers have asked us to write blog posts for them, and today is my turn. The topic is beginnings, and part of what I talk about…
Read MoreMarriage before Murder
“The Marriage of Mary Russell” started, as many of my more interesting projects seem to, with a conversation with my editor. Was there by any chance, she asked, a short story I’d like to write? One that Random House could use as an e-short, during the build-up to The Murder of Mary Russell, to tease new…
Read MoreAnd the cover goes to…
Just got the UK cover for The Murder of Mary Russell, out from Allison & Busby on the same date as in the US, April 5. What do you think? (And no, this is not meant to show the Holmes flint house on the Downs, but a gamekeeper’s cottage from the story.)
Read MoreOn the map
I got a fab present in the mail the other day: I’m on the map! The artist said it was hard to choose one of the Russell stories, but in the end he was so taken by the secret exit from Mycroft’s flat, that he worked The Language of Bees into it–see it just above…
Read MoreSpace travel is cool
These NASA/JPL posters are just the coolest thing ever. They make me want to make over my guest room into a space center. Or maybe my own bedroom. Ah, the romance of space travel. I’ll bet the artists read Have Space Suit, Will Travel when they were kids. They’re free for the printing and using, here.…
Read MoreAgatha and me
The list of nominees for this year’s Agatha awards is now up on the Malice Domestic web site. Malice, which takes place in Bethesda the first weekend in May, celebrates “the traditional mystery,” and Dreaming Spies is one of the attendees’ top choices for “Best Historical Mystery.” This is a great honor–I mean, just look…
Read MoreA Marriage for Mary
A new short story is born! Yes, yes, a short story isn’t a novel, but it’s a bright and amusing bit of new life that wasn’t here last month, and now is, so: yay, me! (Although “here” is a relative term. It’s here for me. You’ll have to wait until March. Sorry.) Here’s how Random…
Read MoreE-vanishing reminder
Just a reminder: the four Russell short e-stories will be unavailable starting next Monday. If you were thinking about putting Russell’s War, Mary’s Christmas, Mrs Hudson’s Case, or Beekeeping for Beginners on your e-reader any time soon, this is your last chance until the stories appear in an e-collection next September. The e-stories going out of, er,…
Read MoreRoad trip with Laurie! (and a Murdered Mary?)
So here’s me, from April 5 until April 15:The Murder of Mary Russell will launch at the amazing and wonderfully warm Anderson’s Books (yay!) in Naperville (near Chicago.) They hosted an event for me a year ago—and made a great video interview. So when I learned that I’d be passing through Chicago, I brought forward my bowl to…
Read MoreVanishing shorts
Two weeks from today, on Feb 1, a number of my e-short stories will be coming down, vanishing, going underground (except, of course, if they’re already on your reader.) These stories won’t be for sale again until Random House publishes my collection of Russell & Holmes tales in October (as an ebook, though possibly, eventually,…
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