Posts by Laurie King
TBT: Tacoma version
Because I’ll be in Tacoma this weekend, I thought my Throwback Thursday ought to show me when I lived there, Back In The Day, when I was still Laurie Richardson. And this is one photo where you should be glad for both washout and fading, because the color of that dress was truly blinding: This was…
Read MoreMary Russell’s Coffee Maker
Coffee plays a large role in the Russell memoirs, and I believe we can now see the kind of pot the Holmes household possesses: Love the Boing Boing channel.
Read MoreMary Russell’s War (five): a letter from the War Office
On the centenary of the Great War, a journal has come to light with weekly entries from a very young Mary Russell. It begins, appropriately enough, on August 4, 1914, when Russell is living with her parents and brother in San Francisco. This is week five. (To read from the beginning, click here.) 1 September…
Read MoreCriminally Thrilling Writing
Crime and Thriller Writing is my how-to book—or, about half mine. I wrote this how-to book of crime writing with Michelle Spring, but it’s not just us: we asked twenty-six other bestselling crime writers to write an essay on…anything. That’s right, we just asked them to write us a few pages on whatever was on their mind, or they…
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: hippies rule!
It may be entirely redundant, considering I live in Santa Cruz, to point out that I used to be a hippie. However, I thought you might like to see how very long that has been the case. This taken in 1971, when I was taking my first classes in religious studies at West Valley College…
Read MoreMary Russell’s War, part four
On the centenary of the Great War, a journal has come to light with weekly entries from a very young Mary Russell. It begins, appropriately enough, on August 4, 1914, when Russell is living with her parents and brother in San Francisco. This is week four. (The journal illuminates that portion of Miss Russell’s memoirs…
Read MoreCrime & Thriller stars
Crime and Thriller Writing is my how-to book—or, about half mine. (And it’s now available as an ebook.) I co-wrote this exploration of the mysteries of crime writing with Michelle Spring, who unlike me (an Organic Writer) is an Organized Writer down to her bones. But one of the best parts of the book is…
Read MoreLos Gatos Lit Fair
There’s a Literary Fair tomorrow in Los Gatos, on the Civic Center lawn from noon to three: it’s fair, it’s literary, it’s waiting for you to join in. Go Libraries! Go, Indie bookstores!
Read MoreThrowback Thursday Twofer
Today’s Throwback Thursday post serves as proof that some authors do their research long in advance. Long, long in advance, like this picture, taken in 1982, a good twenty years before this particular writer set pen to paper to write The Game. And here, said author contemplating the possibilities of alternate universes, wherein she and…
Read MoreMary Russell’s War, week three
On the centenary of the Great War, a journal has come to light of weekly entries from a very young Mary Russell. It begins, appropriately enough, on August 4, 1914, when Russell is living with her parents and brother in San Francisco. This is week three. (To read from the beginning, click here.) 18 August 1914…
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