Posts by Laurie King
An explanation
In work, in life, I tend to focus. The only way I can get through a tight deadline is, basically, to do nothing but write. In the morning I check my email and let my brain wake up with tea and the Internet, then it’s coffee and work, from 7 or 8 in the morning…
Read MoreEndings, and Beginnings
I typed the final chapter of The Bones of Paris yesterday afternoon with my grandson chuntering around at my knee, no doubt contributing his own influence to the words. I say “typed” rather than “wrote” because I actually finished the book ten days ago, but had a preliminary rewrite to do before I could send…
Read MoreThings I will miss
I moved this summer, from a house I’d lived in for 15 years. Now that it’s up for sale–the realtors are holding an open house there today, in fact–I keep thinking of all the things I will miss about it. So I thought I’d put a few of them out there, as a way of…
Read MoreBoucherCon listening
If you’d like to listen in on some of the BoucherCon panels, they’re over here. I moderated #36, with a fabulous quintet of panelists (including Zoe Sharp in the role of an eye-patched and temporarily absent Sean Chercover) and was one of the Sherlockians on Les Klinger’s panel, #54. You can also listen to Deb…
Read MoreA post-BCon post
I had a perfectly grand time at BoucherCon, an event Meg Gardiner calls summer camp for mystery lovers. (Next year it’s in Albany, New York, just in time for the trees turning color–you can register now, here.) Breakfasts with buddies, lunches with friends, dinner with the ragtag gang that call themselves the Friends of Laurie; panels…
Read MoreLet the wild BoucherCon begin!
So, a couple thousand crime writers and fans have descended upon the unsuspecting town of Cleveland, the better to reflect on matters criminous and ever-cleverer ways of committing artistic homicide. And we look so ordinary! BoucherCon is the annual conference of crime writing here in the US, the place where My People hang out, the…
Read MoreLRK and the Bestsellers
Thank you, everyone who helped push Garment of Shadows onto a whole passel of bestseller lists, from the Indies to the Gray Lady. That’s right, the New York Times has a spot for Laurie King, along with the Independent Booksellers of Northern California, and Southern California, and the Pacific Northwest, and, and. Thank you. I…
Read MoreWhere, oh where is my audio?
For those of you patiently (or otherwise) waiting for the audio of Garment of Shadows, I am told it will be up and available on Audible by the end of day tomorrow, at the latest. Apparently it was a problem with getting them the metadata and images. Whatever those might be. Anyway, Recorded Books and…
Read MoreDon we now our Garment of Shadows!
At last, the day we’ve been waiting for since…well, the last pub day: That’s right, today’s the release day for Garment of Shadows. I hope some of you will be at the Scottsdale launch party tonight, although if you’re in a different time zone, you can log on here to participate in everything except the…
Read MoreLyautey
Garment of Shadows will be in stores tomorrow! This is the last daily image and excerpt of our countdown, but you might want to re-visit these daily posts after you’ve read the book. “The older man on the other side of the brazier, dressed in a blue uniform with seven stars on its sleeve that…
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