Friday in Indy, lots of business gets done. People who come to BoucherCon primarily as readers (the “fans”) may not be aware that the Con is also a trade show, with writers as the manufacturers of product. My morning began with a long breakfast meeting with my editor, Kate Miciak, during which we covered everything…
Read MoreThe problem with filling BoucherCons with meetings is that there is no time to listen to panels, which I enjoy doing. And yesterday I was in two panels, plus half an hour sitting the Mystery News desk, and a meeting with a nice gent from the Lilly library who are collecting papers for their archives…
Read MoreSo: Indy. Drive; wait; fly; wait; fly; drive; wait; check in. Exhaustion, although my West Coast clock insisted it was only four in the afternoon. The hell with West Coast clocks, I don’t do lagging time zones: it’s seven p.m. and I’ve been on the road for twelve hours, I’m not going to go hang…
Read MoreWhere can you sit in comfort and listen to: Dana Stabenow; Nevada Barr; Peter May; Leighton Gage; Laurie King (interviewing Lee Child and their Bantam editor, Kate Miciak); Ruth Dudley Edwards; Vicky Delaney and a host of others? I’m talking about BoucherCon this week in Indianapolis, right? Nope. I’m talking about the comfort of your…
Read MoreWriting is widely regarded, I am often startled to discover, as inherently cool. As a person who spends her days muttering to herself in a book-padded room (although rarely in pajamas) I need reminding of the exotic caché of Being a Writer. Mostly I get those reminders through my friends, such as this weekend in…
Read MoreIf you happen to be in the LA sprawl this weekend, come on out to West Hollywood for the WeHo book festival. I’m doing two events on Sunday, an interview at 1:15 and a panel on spirituality and fiction at 3:45. ** We’ve started a new feature over at the LRK online book club this…
Read MoreOne of the more delightful aspects of British culture is their determination to cling to the radio as an art form. Long stretches behind the wheel of the car becomes a seat in a theatre or lecture hall, with the same disinclination to climb out that one has with an audio book—more so because it’s…
Read MoreThe sign of a successful holiday is that the house looks very strange when you return. Did I have that mottled grey Corian on the counter before I left? Well, yes, but only for the past 7 years, so that’s all right. And now that I’m back and looking at my kitchen calendar, I see…
Read MoreAfter considerable to-ing and fro-ing, most of which was well-mannered, Random House and its author have a name for LRKing’s next book, formerly known as The Green Man, to be published in June 2010: The God of the Hive
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