Laurie R. King

BoucherCon Saturday began with…a Farmer’s Market! That’s right, the entire Square around the capitol building was lined with stalls selling the most mouth-watering selection of fresh vegetables and fruits, cheese, honey, all sized bags of popcorn (“Oh yes,” one man told us, when we remarked on his 25 pound bag of popcorn, “this is the…

By Friday night at BoucherCon, Choices Must Be Made: Do I go for all the parties, all the time, and the hell with the morrow, or do I realize that if I don’t get to bed before midnight my Saturday attempts at coherence will be severely compromised? And since I have not only a panel…

Thursday I managed the only quiet period I’m going to get here in Madison, a couple of hours in the hotel reading my notes for the panels and ironing the shirts I dutifully pack in a no-iron packing thingie that always need ironing when I arrive. Which is what I get for not liking polyester,…

British prescriptions will often be labeled by the pharmacist, “The mixture, as before” and that is how travel has become. Whatever new variation on the mixture they come up with, it doesn’t effect the final result: Travel is a pain. The latest ridiculous variation is that they have two uniformed security people with gloves and…

If you’d like to join us for lunch during my time in Madison, WI for BoucherCon, some Friends of King (and King herself) will be at the Café Continental at 108 King (!) Street in Madison, from 12:30 until about 2:00. See you then! Of course, if you’re in Chicago, come see us at Centuries…

I have been thinking about submission lately. No, not the kind of submission where you send in a piece of work to a judging panel, but the kind where you feel the weight of a burden, and you see how much grace you can summon while you’ve got it on your back. Islam means submission.…

I thought it might be nice to meet up with any Friends of King who are attending the Madison BoucherCon, just to say hi. If people are free for lunch Thursday, say 1:00, we could kick things off before my own 3:00 panel. If anyone who would like to join would post a comment here,…

NPR’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge” on September 17th will include as the second hour: HOUR TWO – “Elementary Holmes”“Forget the deerstalker cap and the calabash pipe. The real Sherlock Holmes is much hipper than that. One scholar suggests that with his violin, creative spirit, cocaine and costumes, Holmes was the rock star of…

At the moment, it takes a prominent article in the paper to make me sit up and take notice, and especially to read to the end, but here’s one from the Sunday SF Chronicle:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/03/INGR0KRGMF1.DTL I’m such an innocent. Last year when Barbara Bush announced a donation to the hurricane zone that had a string attached,…

At the moment, it takes a prominent article in the paper to make me sit up and take notice, and especially to read to the end, but here’s one from the Sunday SF Chronicle–http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/03/INGR0KRGMF1.DTL I’m such an innocent. Last year when Barbara Bush announced a donation to the hurricane zone that had a string attached,…