Laurie R. King

A flywheel is a device for storing energy: some machine or water flow or what have you gets it running and the wheel flies around, faster and faster, ready to transfer that energy into driving whatever piece of equipment one might require. A flywheel resists changes in its speed of rotation, and it needs a…

If you wander over to the BoucherCon program site at http://programmingb-con08.blogspot.com/, you’ll find my name quite a lot– October 9-12, 2009, Baltimore BoucherCon Thursday 11:30: LIVING IN THE PAST (Jethro Tull) Getting research right. Laurie R. King(M), Rennie Airth, James R. Benn, Charles Todd, Jeri Westerson Thursday 3:00: IT’S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE (Glen Campbell) Telling…

You may nave noticed that there’s nothing to see here, and moved along. I am head-down in the rewrite, six or eight hours straight of either reading the thing aloud (muttering it, actually, and haltingly, since I stop every few words to change something, then have to re-read the paragraph as corrected) or else inputting…

My daughter dared me to write about the movie we saw last night (Hi, sweetie) because she thinks my fans imagine me as hanging around the art-movie house (And you’d better believe Santa Cruz has one, or three) instead of guffawing helplessly over a piece of gore-soaked inanity like Tropic Thunder, and that I should…

I’ve written here about my fondness for RIF, the national Reading is FUNdamental program that gives books to kids. Well, I see that there’s a nice program going on, of all places, at Macy’s. If you give them $3 as a RIF donation, they’ll pass all of that $3 over to RIF, and give you…

The editor, as I’m sure I’ve said before, is the writer’s first reader. She (well, yes, there are a few guys in editorial chairs) is more than that, of course: the editor is generally the person who buys the book for the publishing house, negotiates the contract, knocks the book into shape, and oversees the…

And to show it, a bunch of us BoucherConners will be extricating ourselves from the confines of the conference in October and popping up at some of the Baltimore libraries. I’m hoping I don’t have a panel assigned me Saturday morning, because I’d love to be in the library audience when Val McDermid and others…

Watch what you ask for. I said I was torn between watching the Olympics and not, and man those opening ceremonies sure fill the screen… Except not. Ten minutes before broadcast, the lights went out chez King. Went on ten minutes after they finished. So I guess Someone Has Spoken. Any neighbors out there who…

I like the Olympics. Some of the events make me yawn, but opening ceremonies, the beauty of the competitors, the tug-at-the-heartstrings that the television networks do so well, generally keep me watching. But this year, I have a bad taste in my mouth, and I’m not sure how much of my attention the games are…

Sometimes you just need a laugh. Thanks Meg, and I still owe you a cold one, see you in the bar in October.