Just in time to provide you with a brief respite from the hecticities of December, Laurie R. King Productions brings you an old favorite short story that has been out of print for some time now. Many of you may remember “Mrs Hudson’s Case,” but if you don’t, or you’d like to revisit this adventure…
Every writer thinks about producing a book about craft. Two years ago, my friend Michelle Spring pulled me into one, and I will be eternally grateful. The pairing was unexpectedly effective, since we have such different methods, and the format of this book also brings in a number of superb guest essays. Take a look…
I did an event at Bookshop Santa Cruz recently, to celebrate a collection of essays by authors on their favorite Indie bookstore. The folks who put together My Bookstore asked me to write on Bookshop, and I was happy to revisit the place in my heart that the store occupies. Important things take place in…
In work, in life, I tend to focus. The only way I can get through a tight deadline is, basically, to do nothing but write. In the morning I check my email and let my brain wake up with tea and the Internet, then it’s coffee and work, from 7 or 8 in the morning…
I typed the final chapter of The Bones of Paris yesterday afternoon with my grandson chuntering around at my knee, no doubt contributing his own influence to the words. I say “typed” rather than “wrote” because I actually finished the book ten days ago, but had a preliminary rewrite to do before I could send…
I moved this summer, from a house I’d lived in for 15 years. Now that it’s up for sale–the realtors are holding an open house there today, in fact–I keep thinking of all the things I will miss about it. So I thought I’d put a few of them out there, as a way of…
If you’d like to listen in on some of the BoucherCon panels, they’re over here. I moderated #36, with a fabulous quintet of panelists (including Zoe Sharp in the role of an eye-patched and temporarily absent Sean Chercover) and was one of the Sherlockians on Les Klinger’s panel, #54. You can also listen to Deb…
I had a perfectly grand time at BoucherCon, an event Meg Gardiner calls summer camp for mystery lovers. (Next year it’s in Albany, New York, just in time for the trees turning color–you can register now, here.) Breakfasts with buddies, lunches with friends, dinner with the ragtag gang that call themselves the Friends of Laurie; panels…
So, a couple thousand crime writers and fans have descended upon the unsuspecting town of Cleveland, the better to reflect on matters criminous and ever-cleverer ways of committing artistic homicide. And we look so ordinary! BoucherCon is the annual conference of crime writing here in the US, the place where My People hang out, the…
Thank you, everyone who helped push Garment of Shadows onto a whole passel of bestseller lists, from the Indies to the Gray Lady. That’s right, the New York Times has a spot for Laurie King, along with the Independent Booksellers of Northern California, and Southern California, and the Pacific Northwest, and, and. Thank you. I…