Posts by Laurie King
The best trip, ever (3)
The intrepid Meredith Taylor follows the footsteps of Russell and Holmes in Dartmoor… Dartmoor, MOOR and Lew Trenchard When we arrived a party of four was sitting right next to the fireplace in the front room. (No fire needed on a Thursday in May.) I was disappointed as this would slow down my quest for…
Read MoreOn the Trail of Russell and Holmes, Or The Best Trip Ever (2)
Friend of Russell Meredith continues her May trip to England… Dartmoor and Lew Trenchard, Part 2 On that first evening, we kept going on one of the major roads and stopped at Two Bridges. MOOR says Russell and Holmes stopped at “an inn” with a Saracen’s Head in Two Bridges. There was no Saracen’s Head…
Read MoreOn the Trail of Russell and Holmes (1)
On the Trail of Russell and Holmes, or: The Best Trip Ever Meredith is a friend, and a long-time Friend of Russell. When she went to England this year in the footsteps of Mary Russell, I told her that if she’d like to write up her trip, I’d be happy to post it here in Mutterings.…
Read MorePirate ready to sail!
Pirate King sets sail three months from today! That means it’s time for: Details of the contests, drawings, and piratical shenanigans will be given in weeks to come, but for the moment, you should know from here on out, the excerpts will be given first in the LRK newsletter, then some days later on the…
Read MoreOther duties
This week’s post on writing was superseded by grandmaternal duties. Meet the newest pirate in the King’s realm. Arrrgh! grandson.
Read MoreWriting scared
I had another post ready for today, on Writer’s Wednesday, but then I received the first review for Pirate King, and I decided to talk about reviews instead. I’ve been lucky with reviews. I’m sure there are any number of loud and pointed complaints on my various books’ Amazon pages, but I take care not…
Read MoreSearch, and Re-search
Maybe the problem is, I need to embrace my inner A. S. Byatt. Her 2009 Booker Prize shortlisted novel Children’s Story is, in addition to being a gorgeously written book, a huge information dump of Life Among the Fabians at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Fairy tale publishing, politics, sexual mores, pedagogy, the chemistry…
Read MoreA Study in Sherlock
What would happen if you asked twenty top writers who don’t normally write about Sherlock Holmes, to write about Sherlock Holmes? And what if these great writers read that proposal and decided that yes, they did have that kind of tale in the back of their minds? Why, you’d have: A Study in Sherlock, Stories…
Read MorePirate King
Rejoin Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in their eleventh adventure together, Pirate King, coming September 6, 2011. This time, the intrepid pair enters the frenetic world of silent films, where the pirates are real and the shooting isn’t all done with cameras. Click here for updates on Pirate King, Laurie’s thoughts on writing it, a…
Read MorePassivity
Good fiction is active. (I tell myself this as I slog through a first draft that feels about as active as mud. Mud can be active, right? Certainly anyone who has lived downhill from a mudslide would say so.) But yes, good fiction is active. This is why writers are told to avoid the passive…
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