Posts by Laurie King
Pirate King sails
This is what I’m doing today. Taking this: down the hill and into town and putting it into a box, where some nice person will pull it out later today and other nice people will stow it in various trucks and a plane, and some time tomorrow my editor in New York will hold it…
Read MorePub Night Live!
This just in from Will at Poisoned Pen Central: This is Will from The Poisoned Pen. We will be webcasting this event 7pm MST, and you can tune in on our blog www.poisonedfiction.blogspot.com(click the webcast tab) or at www.livestream.com/poisonedpenauthorevent Once the event is over the video will be available for replay, so you DON’T necessarily…
Read MoreA Night at the Pub (Poisoned Pen style)
Tomorrow’s a Night at the Pub at Poisoned Pen Books, Scottsdale, complete with a keg, crisps, atmospheric fog (!) and some giveaways (a drawing of the signed broadsheet, “Birth of a Green Man,” by LRK.) And these: The night’s theme fits Willis’s double story told in Blackout and All Clear . In Blackout, Connie Willis…
Read MoreBoucherCon 2010 (4)
I always begin BoucherCon with the best of intentions when it comes to panels. I search the schedule before I make lunch dates and appointments, because I really do enjoy listening to my fellow writers speak, and after 23 years of writing, I still have a lot to learn. So I go through the preliminary…
Read MoreBoucherCon 2010 (3)
It takes a village to put on a BoucherCon. One of the early conversations we had about BoucherCon concerned coffee, specifically, the need for copious quantities of good coffee. And tea. Since two of the three author guests of honor are published by Random House, that house generously stepped up and offered to sponsor the…
Read MoreBoucherCon 2010 (2)
It takes a village to run a BoucherCon. Rae Helmsworth, blessed be her name, asked me (back when BCon-San Francisco was but a twinkle in her mischief-filled eye) if I would consider being the US guest of honor. I had to think about it, for about a thousandth of a second, before I said yes. …
Read MoreBoucherCon 2010
Now, don’t these ladies look as if they’re having a good time?
Read MoreBoucherCon is underway! We started with a meeting over coffee and fruit with a dozen or so Friends of Laurie, went on to a quick round of handshakes at the newbies’ breakfast (those new to BoucherCon’, not new to LRK) and then got waylaid by the popping up of friends–Val McDermid and Meg Gardiner and…
Read MoreBoucherCon, Visited
I hope you enjoyed the past days of BoucherCon memories? Well, today I’m off to San Francisco to make some new ones. I hope to see a lot of you there, but for those of you who can’t make it, here’s a gift for your virtual BoucherCon book bag: During the five days of BoucherCon,…
Read MoreBoucherCon Revisited (V)
…but of all the BoucherCons up to 2010, my favorite has to be Monterey, in 1997. Because it was in my backyard, and I had a new house, I held a housewarming party, for 100 good friends, with beer and burritos. People drove up, people stopped off on their way down the coast, people came…
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