Laurie R. King

As Ms Russell mentioned in her Myspace blog, if you sign up by the 15th for the Virtual Book Club, your name will be in a drawing for one of ten copies of the shiny new paperback of The Art of Detection, signed by yrs truly.

What with one thing and another, I neglected to say that the blog Poe’s Deadly Daughters has an interview with yrs truly, although because of my tardiness, you’ll have to scroll down to June 7 to see it. Sorry, Liz!

We speak today of heroic acts. It is, after all, one of the reasons we read, and write, crime fiction, because there’s a hero, who makes us think, What if I..? A paradigm for behavior, a reinforcement of Right versus Wrong. I, too, might find it in me to be a hero. A party, filled…

Those of you who get the newsletter will know this, but for newcomers to the game, here it is. Sound the trumpets and draw back the drapes the latest creation in the Laurie King electronic universe: The Laurie R. King Virtual Book Club, or, LRK VBC. That’s right, a book club where readers don’t have…

Mary Jane Dickson was born May 21, 1922, in San Francisco, to two survivors of the 1906 earthquake and fire (the link shows a photo of Mary in her mother’s belly.) She grew up on the peninsula south of San Francisco, but after high school moved back to The City to work at The Emporium.…

Patience is not one of the stronger characteristics of the Internet universe. After all, aren’t blogs and web sites the very definition of ephemeral? So I have to thank you all for your patience with this remarkably slow process of getting a book club underway. The official announcement is coming out soon, certainly before the…

Can anyone out there explain to me what it IS with tech people? I mean, I expect the lack of social skills that means most of them don’t actually speak English and they punctuate every conversation with long, exasperated sighs, but at the end of it, isn’t the whole thing a little counter-productive it they…

You found your way here, thanks for persisting, but have you seen the shiny new look on the LRK web site to your left? Just the first of many changes, so keep checking with us. But before we get all excited about things, we need to tidy up the Q&As that came in for May…