Laurie R. King

This past week my first stand-alone novel, A DARKER PLACE (or in the UK, THE BIRTH OF A NEW MOON) was the topic of discussion for a group of MFA writing students from the Whidby Island Writing Association. The students would post comments on various topics, I would read them each day and post remarks…

The other night driving back from movie-and-sushi with a friend (‘e2’80’9cMrs. Henderson Presents’e2’80’9d’e2’80’94great movie, although much of the humor was too British for Santa Cruz) I got stuck behind a truck of beehives. Yes, spring is coming. The early flowers are out here, boosted by a week of weirdly summery weather (80 degrees, in February?)…

For reasons unrelated to much of anything, I needed to send what I have of TOUCHSTONE to my editor this week. I don’t normally give her–or anyone–a look until a ms is finished, but this one is feeling so strong to me I figured it couldn’t hurt the process any. So I did and she…

Andrew Sullivan’e2’80’99s essays at the back of TIME magazine are often the best part of the whole 75 pages. A week or so ago (Jan 23) he wrote ‘e2’80’9cWe Don’e2’80’99t Need a New King George’e2’80’9d, which you can access, sort of, on the TIME web site. But since it appears to need a subscription, here’e2’80’99s…

Tomorrow marks a year since this blog started, an experiment to see if I could bear the additional demands of a regular, newsletter-style communication with the people who like my books. I always hated getting roped into the kids’ newsletters at school, since it seemed that no sooner did we finally get one issue off…

Q: Jaimee asks, I was wondering if you have ever thought of writing a travelogue or a memoir? Your descriptions of locale throughout all of your books are fascinating, and through your blog I have really enjoyed your personal stories about your experiences (such as the cockroach story). Reading your books tends to make me…

Q: Kay asks, Laurie-I’m wondering when you write a series (if, in fact, you meant to) do you visualise several books into the future, or do they come to you one adventure at a time?PS Loved Cat’s Paw–there were elements of Russell in there! A: Elements of Russell in the story of a middle-school basketball…

Okay, that’s enough questions for this month. If you haven’t asked yours yet, could you save it for the first of March? Thanks. Q. Mousie writes, I had thought of a question last week, but being incredibly forgetful, I forgot it. So the question I ask to substitute for my previous question is: Does Russell’s…

As we seem to be coming up to the first of the month (whatever happened to January?) I’m open to questions again. If you have something to ask about writing in general, or about LRK’s writing in particular, or indeed, about any other topic that catches your fancy, I’ll do my best to answer, or…

Gung hai fat choy, to you all. It’s the lunar New Year, which makes it appropriate that we talk about beginnings. Some beginnings are quiet and inexorable. Others take rather more work. The beginnings of TOUCHSTONE are proving to be the latter. Then again, with three main characters whose voices need nailing down early on…