Posts by Laurie King
The Great PNW Library Extravaganza
Okay, what is it with the libraries in Washington state? They are uniformly fabulous, with uniformly fabulous people in charge. They even have amazing names! Take yesterday: I fly into SeaTac and am met by the coordinator of adult programming for Kitsap County, whose name is Chapple Langemack. We then go to lunch with the…
Read MoreLaurie’s Libraries (WA edition)
As part of the 20th anniversary Laurie Loves Libraries extravaganza, I’m packing my bags for a Pacific Northwest Literary storm, due to hit WA tomorrow. That’s right, Thursday, March 14: 2:00 at the Renton library; 4:40 on the Seattle-Bainbridge Island ferry; 7:00 at the library in Bremerton, continuing Friday at 10:00 in Poulsbo. Whew! Surely…
Read MoreSecrets, in the open
Last summer, I bought a house. I moved into it in August, having seen the place first in mid-February, then in late March. By the time I moved in, the long-neglected garden was a tangle of fading green, with dozens of plants in it that gave no clue what they were. The only thing I…
Read MoreLaurie Loves Libraries, cont.
Tonight I’ll be continuing my 20th anniversary celebration with an event at the Vacaville Town Square Library in Vacaville, CA. (You can download a flyer here.) Hope to see you there, but if you can’t make it, you can still enter your favorite library for this week’s book drawing by clicking here.
Read MoreLRK on Sherlock Holmes: Update
For those of you who were waiting for a non-Kindle version of my Sherlock Holmes essays, it’s now available for download here. We are also looking into making it available in hard copy via Bookshop Santa Cruz’s print on demand machine — stay tuned for those details as well.
Read MoreLRK on Sherlock Holmes
Over the years, I’ve been asked to write various things about that fellow with the pipe, Sherlock Holmes. Some of them have been in print, others I stuck onto the web site, still others are available, but only at considerable expense inside hardback covers. It seemed to me this might be a good place to…
Read MoreLibrary Book Club in a Box
Reminder: a week from today is our first drawing for the Library Book Club in a Box! Enter your favorite library today for a chance to win them a set of Laurie R. King books. We’ll be doing drawings through April, so your chances are good!
Read MoreTen Weeks of Library Love
If you’re in the area, I hope you’ll come out and join me tonight at the Santa Clara City Library for the opening of the LRK ten weeks of library love, a celebration of all things library in honor of the twentieth anniversary of A Grave Talent. Hope to see you there!
Read MoreThe Pirate flag flies!
I’ve been in my new house since August, with workmen crawling on the roof and under the floor most of that time, and I’ve had little to actually SHOW for it all since it’s mostly little things like strengthening the deck rail and making sure the toilet flushes. Important, yes, but not much fun involved.…
Read MoreThe Bones of Paris, scrubbing away
Midday on Thursday I sent the revised version of The Bones of Paris off to my editor. The much-revised version. Since getting the first draft back just before Thanksgiving, I’ve been chained to my chair, working 70+ hour weeks on it, to make up for having lost three months in the process of moving house. …
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