Laurie R. King

Thanks for playing, more questions later in the week… Q: I have read all of your books multiple times but especially the Russell/Holmes series. When will the next in that series (please let there be more on the way!) be written/published? A: The next Russell will be written next year, published (God willing) in 2008.…

Okay, if we’re finished talking about sex, let’s accept the fact that it’s the first of November (oh, all right, it’s the second) and open this to Q&A. I’ll pick ten or twelve questions so make them good.

(Do I have your attention now, class?) I’ve been thinking about sex lately. My current villain’s sex, to be precise, what kind and how much to describe. Sex is a tricky thing for a writer. And I’m just talking about what’s on the page, so stop your sniggering, you in the back. Because it’s so…

I live in a farming community. If you have Brussels sprouts for Thanksgiving or a stuffed artichoke in a restaurant, you’re eating from a field I drive past. If you ever buy Driscoll strawberries, think of me. Apples, lettuce, celery, wine grapes, you name it—if it doesn’t need weeks of high heat, we probably grow…

I adore librarians. I throw myself at their feet, I put myself in their hands, I embrace them fully, I adore librarians. Thank you, Andrea and Beth and Pat and Linda and Eva and Ann and all the others for choosing THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE for the 2006 Spokane is Reading project. Thank you for the…

Spokane is reading…Laurie King! Or at least, they’re all hunkering down to read THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE. If you live in eastern Washington state, I hope you know this already, and will come to one of the two October 19 events, sponsored by one great library system and Auntie’s Books (and no, yours truly did not…

For any of you in the SF Bay area who are looking for something truly thrilling to do next Tuesday night, October 17, come join Cara Black, Jim Calder, Nadia Gordon, David Corbett and yrs truly for a mystery seminar at the incomparable 826 Valencia writing project in San Francisco. You can sign up at…

I recently changed my villain’s name. Computers make this blessedly easy, although in one of my early books, back in the days before words were processed, I had to go through and stick that white paper tape in a hundred spots after I decided that the name was just wrong. Not, in those days, a…

Every so often, government takes the lead. This happened a few years ago when a law was passed requiring communities to curtail what went into their dumps and landfills, cutting back by so many percent over the next few years. By having the issue pushed down their throats, communities were forced to embrace recycling in…

The Sunday of BoucherCon is a tail-end kind of a time, with panels going on but a distinctly autumnal feeling in the air. I rudely invited myself into a car headed for the airport in Chicago at a more useful time than the one I had originally intended to share with Les Klinger, and heartlessly…