Posts by Laurie King
That man follows me everywhere
Spotted the other day on market day in Thame:
Read MoreMay…may be
The month of May in England…may be sunny, or wet. It may be easy to get around, or not. There may be a clothes dryer where you’re staying, or it may just be a machine that tumbles your wet laundry around and around for a few hours until you give up and drape the well-stewed garments…
Read MoreClassic Crime with LRK
This is Edgars week in New York, and for one of the few years since I proudly became a member of the Mystery Writers of America, I’m not there. I’ll miss my annual get-together with friends like Les Klinger and Lyndsay Faye (and wouldn’t you want to be sitting at their table?) but instead, I’m…
Read MoreA slug fest!
I have lived in and around Santa Cruz for most of my life. I started school here in the fifties, I went to university here, I raised my kids here. As I said to the nice lady from the Good Times: “Santa Cruz is like a first draft: a shorthand sort of tale understood by,…
Read MoreFiddleheads!
A while ago I was at San Francisco’s Ferry Building on a Saturday morning, when the place just explodes into the Bay Area’s most fantastic farmer’s market. And so I bought…stuff. Berries and Chinese broccoli and hot sauces and things I knew. But the fun part of a market like this is the produce you…
Read MoreAlma Mater
The University of California Santa Cruz (“The original authority on questioning authority”) is my alma mater, and has continued to nourish me long after she handed me my degree. Five years ago, I was tremendously honored to be named one of this relatively new university’s “45+5” alumni. And coming up on the 25th, I will be participating…
Read MoreLibrary Love, from Laurie
I’ve written a love letter, for National Library Week, here. Libraries are my home and my joy. Libraries were where I lived, when I was a kid. (We moved. A lot.) Now, libraries make my work possible, since I write historical novels and do a ton of research.
Read MoreIt’s Library Week!
I invite you and your friends to nominate any US middle school library to win a carton (28) of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice. Go to my web site before Friday, April 17 to nominate your favorite library, and while you’re there, take a look at the Common Core unit. The nomination form is here. The Common Core unit is here.
Read MoreIt’s Library Week!
Happy National Library Week! Here at LRK Central, every year we celebrate Library Week, often asking you, gentle Reader, to write something about your relationship with libraries: “A Love Letter to My Library” was in 2009, then “My Fantasy Library”, followed by a dose of Piratical Booty. 2012 was “Thrills in the Stacks”, after which…
Read MoreThe Meeting, a hundred years on
One hundred years ago, something happened. Something vastly important. An event that reverberated down the ages. If you’ve been following the Monday posts on this blog, you’ll know that two days and a hundred years ago, Miss Russell planned on taking a walk from her inherited home across the Sussex Downs to the Channel. And we…
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