I’m participating in an event Thursday night for: “UnChained, a Canines Teaching Compassion Program that helps change the lives of kids and save the lives of dogs by matching at-risk youth and shelter dogs together.” It’s at one of my favorite bookstores, Capitola BookCafe–details here.
Read MoreThe third event of the recent Pacific Northwest Library Extravaganza was a soirée called Author! Author! at the gorgeous offices of architects Rice/Fergus/Miller in Bremerton. Over the Puget Sound area’s most tasty appetizers, thriller writer Kevin O’Brien and I talked books– –and writing and drank some beer and talked and answered questions and… well, I…
Read MoreMy second event for the recent LRK Pacific Northwest Library Extravaganza was even more unusual than in a library built over a river, although this, too, had a watery theme. Once upon a time (last year) I came across an article about a book group that meets on a ferry. These are regular commuters who…
Read MoreOkay, what is it with the libraries in Washington state? They are uniformly fabulous, with uniformly fabulous people in charge. They even have amazing names! Take yesterday: I fly into SeaTac and am met by the coordinator of adult programming for Kitsap County, whose name is Chapple Langemack. We then go to lunch with the…
Read MoreAs part of the 20th anniversary Laurie Loves Libraries extravaganza, I’m packing my bags for a Pacific Northwest Literary storm, due to hit WA tomorrow. That’s right, Thursday, March 14: 2:00 at the Renton library; 4:40 on the Seattle-Bainbridge Island ferry; 7:00 at the library in Bremerton, continuing Friday at 10:00 in Poulsbo. Whew! Surely…
Read MoreLast summer, I bought a house. I moved into it in August, having seen the place first in mid-February, then in late March. By the time I moved in, the long-neglected garden was a tangle of fading green, with dozens of plants in it that gave no clue what they were. The only thing I…
Read MoreTonight I’ll be continuing my 20th anniversary celebration with an event at the Vacaville Town Square Library in Vacaville, CA. (You can download a flyer here.) Hope to see you there, but if you can’t make it, you can still enter your favorite library for this week’s book drawing by clicking here.
Read MoreFor those of you who were waiting for a non-Kindle version of my Sherlock Holmes essays, it’s now available for download here. We are also looking into making it available in hard copy via Bookshop Santa Cruz’s print on demand machine — stay tuned for those details as well.
Read MoreOver the years, I’ve been asked to write various things about that fellow with the pipe, Sherlock Holmes. Some of them have been in print, others I stuck onto the web site, still others are available, but only at considerable expense inside hardback covers. It seemed to me this might be a good place to…
Read MoreReminder: a week from today is our first drawing for the Library Book Club in a Box! Enter your favorite library today for a chance to win them a set of Laurie R. King books. We’ll be doing drawings through April, so your chances are good!
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