Today’s Takeback Tuesday comes from the wilds of London, where I’m doing research, seeing people, and commiserating with family about Brexit (them) and #45 (me). So far I seem to be winning that Sad Place on points. But here’s a suggestion: You can take a similar message down to your local sign shop, to upload it to…
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Congratulations to Rebecca Weber, Laura from Pennsylvania, Dee Ayres, Karen Ihms, Randall Price, Alison T, Tina Hoggatt, and Jay Roberts—who all won copies of the advanced galleys for Lockdown. You’ll have them very soon, friends! And congratulations to…well, me, I suppose—for the sweetheart of a Kirkus review that met me on my way to the…
Read MoreToday’s TBT is a reminder from NASA and my friends at Boing Boing, that we are delicate and precious and the universe is very large. That tiny dot between Saturn’s rings is us. You and me and everyone we love and hate and all our problems, right there. Our era may be one of strife…
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This is a blast from the past, a post I wrote in 2010 about a book that’s currently on sale for $1.99 from your friends at the Kindle company, here. Folly is one of my standalone novels–the other Laurie King–and it’s interesting to see that it, like the upcoming Lockdown, is essentially a meditation on…
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Mary Russell’s War is now on sale in the UK! Clothed in yet another gorgeous Allison & Busby cover: You can order a copy from A&B, or from Waterstones or Amazon UK. Meanwhile, in the USofA, there are some specials running on e-books: A Letter of Mary ($3.99) A Monstrous Regiment of Women ($3.99) The Moor ($3.99)…
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The weeks between seeing the paper-bound galleys and getting the first review are always a nervous time. Will they get it? Will they LIKE it?? Well, Booklist does: Issue: May 1, 2017 Lockdown. Advanced Review – Uncorrected Proof King, Laurie R. (Author) Jun 2017. 400 p. Bantam, hardcover, $28. (9780804177931). It’s Career Day at Guadalupe…
Read MoreA lovely photo popped up on my Facebook feed yesterday: The caption read: A Taoist (me) gives up his seat so a Hasidic couple could sit together. They scoot over so a Muslim mother could sit and nurse her baby, on Easter Sunday. This is my America: People letting people be people. –Jackie Summers I…
Read MoreThe gorgeous collection of songs to the glory of bookstores has come out in paperback! Eighty-one of the country’s top writers wrote essays, stories, and words of praise for their favorite shops, which were then illustrated with charming drawings, in My Bookstore. I talk about my local, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and how a damaged town…
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“The other Laurie R. King” is my series of reflections—as we approach the publication of a distinctly non-Russellian story, Lockdown—on why I write books that aren’t Russell and Holmes. Stories that just push at me until I have to step outside Mary Russell’s time and place. For other posts on the topic, click here. The first…
Read MoreWant a copy of Lockdown? Ooh, yes, look at these, you know you do… Okay: we all know that libraries—and librarians—rock, right? And we all know that, as my dedication to The Moor put it, librarians… “…spend their lives in battle against the forces of darkness.” Now more than ever. But no matter our niche…
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