Laurie R. King

MURDER ON THE FOUL LINE, a collection of basketball-related short stories edited by Otto Penzler, will be out the first of the year’e2’80’94we’ll put the cover and information onto the web site before too long. In the meantime, here’e2’80’99s what Publishers Weekly has to say about it: Penzler’s choice of contributors is varied and often…

Thanksgiving is one of the two big holidays around the King house (the other being Memorial Day.) My brother and his family come down from Portland, my sister and her husband are parked in the drive in their motor home, my niece and her kid, my nephew and a partner, my mother and this year…

TOUCHSTONE is beginning to prowl around the dark boundaries of my mind, making its presence felt. Considering that I’m supposed to begin writing the thing in six weeks’ time, I suppose that’s a good thing, however, I could wish I had a clearer idea of What It’s About. I know WHO it is about, and…

In this blog, I’e2’80’99ve avoided talking about religion because it’e2’80’99s personal, it’e2’80’99s complicated, and basically because talking about it opens up a whole lot of boxes I don’e2’80’99t want to fall into online. So although my academic background is in religion and theology, you probably won’e2’80’99t read much about it here, unless I can figure…

The November newsletter is about to go out, with the cover for THE ART OF DETECTION and a quizzical photo of yours truly. If you’e2’80’99re not on the mailing list, now would be a good time to sign up. Just click here or go to the web site LaurieRKing.com and click on the newsletter tab.…

Many times a book event is just that, an event based around what you, personally, have written. As such, you’e2’80’99re in control, and may want to tell a little about the writing of the book, or why you were interested in the topic, or something about your life, anything by way of contrast to straight…

Apologies to those of you who have been barraged with nonexistent messages from me, but it seems that Safari doesn’t like what I have to say about author events. Explorer appears to be less picky, so I shall try them for a while, beginning with the material I just posted as “Try, try again,” but…

‘e2’80’a6and then I work my way down in the stack to the Saturday paper, and find: ‘e2’80’9cHouse panel votes to chop food stamps.’e2’80’9d It seems that our Ag department, dominated of course by Bush Republicans, and in a move originally suggested by the White House, are trying to help chop $50 billion out of the…

I had the sort of weekend that reminds me why I’e2’80’99m in this book business. I spent a lot of time with my good friends of the Poisoned Pen (bookstore and press), had a couple of decent events, didn’e2’80’99t get seated next to a boor or a small and mistreated child on either flight, got…