Laurie R. King

I just had a comment from Pen saying it sounded like I didn’t enjoy writing the new Martinelli book at all. What’s not to like? Working eleven hour days trying to make sure all the plot lines follow through, all the suspects are followed beginning to end, each clue is dealt with, every cited fact…

Last week my editor and I had The Talk. You know, the one where you sit and converse in lowered voices and not meeting the other’s eyes, and go over those things that will determine your future, your health, and your worth as a human being. It had nothing to do with sleeping with men,…

There are a lot of nightmares in this mothering business, this from “Paperback Writer”. And while you’re there, take note of her “thought for the month” at the side… Lynn, our thoughts are with you.

Okay, I’m registered for BoucherCon. Whoever decided that Labor Day weekend in da Windy City was a fun idea does not have my vote, but my buddy Dana (Stabenow) told me I had to and I always do what she tells me, even when it comes to writing a short story (WILD CRIMES). So I’m…

Guest blogger Elaine Viets over at The Lipstick Chronicles has a superb post on the subject of the male romance novel. I’m not even going to give a synopsis of her essay because you need to read it where it stands. Very perceptive lady, Ms. Viets.

We left our heroine with her new husband in a breeze-block cottage on the campus of the University of Papua New Guinea, in scenic (sic) Port Moresby, contemplating the nature of cockroaches. You remember: really big, really fast cockroaches. There was one in particular that tormented me deliberately, waiting until I was halfway across the…

A bit ago I tantalized you (well, tantalized one of you anyway) with the promise of a cockroach story. This was set off by a reading of Rochelle Krich’e2’80’99s blog on July 21, with later mentions, about the cockroaches that had taken up residence in her microwave, and although I do know all about the…

Wrestling with the PostIts still on the rewrite, it’s like the stage of getting the manuscript back from my editor and finding one small notation in the margin that throws an entire sub-plot into question. So with my own notes, three or four words will represent two long days of sweating the details. I really,…

Okay, I’m scribbling down recommendations as fast as I can. You guys are great. And for those of you who caught the Wodehouse miscredit, good for you. Those words are probably best attributed to Cole Porter, although Wodehouse did work on the musical and added a London verse when the production opened there. It’s not…

First, let me just say (not directly related to the above title, although her books can be funny, and she more so) that Barbara Seranella seems to be doing a lot better. Her body seems to be accepting the second liver, and although she’s got a long recovery ahead, the worst of the white-knuckles phase…