As I said yesterday, 2011 looks to be all-Sherlock, all the time in LRK-land—and it will start in January, when I go to New York for the annual dinner of the Baker Street Irregulars and sign copies of: The Grand Game, Volume One Eds. Leslie S. Klinger and Laurie R. King The Grand Game is…
Read MoreEleven months ago, I went to New York and came home with a Secret Handshake and a Code Name. Well, actually I went to the annual dinner of the Baker Street Irregulars and was given the great and unexpected honor of being made an Irregular (investiture name: “The Red Circle.” Which is a Conan Doyle…
Read MoreYou need another hint as to the natty gent’s identity? Here’s a photo of me (looking quizzical, which is quite appropriate) with his bronzed version (no, that’s not a euphemism for drunk.) It was taken in March:
Read MoreThis is what I’m doing today. Taking this: down the hill and into town and putting it into a box, where some nice person will pull it out later today and other nice people will stow it in various trucks and a plane, and some time tomorrow my editor in New York will hold it…
Read MoreThis just in from Will at Poisoned Pen Central: This is Will from The Poisoned Pen. We will be webcasting this event 7pm MST, and you can tune in on our blog www.poisonedfiction.blogspot.com(click the webcast tab) or at www.livestream.com/poisonedpenauthorevent Once the event is over the video will be available for replay, so you DON’T necessarily…
Read MoreTomorrow’s a Night at the Pub at Poisoned Pen Books, Scottsdale, complete with a keg, crisps, atmospheric fog (!) and some giveaways (a drawing of the signed broadsheet, “Birth of a Green Man,” by LRK.) And these: The night’s theme fits Willis’s double story told in Blackout and All Clear . In Blackout, Connie Willis…
Read MoreI always begin BoucherCon with the best of intentions when it comes to panels. I search the schedule before I make lunch dates and appointments, because I really do enjoy listening to my fellow writers speak, and after 23 years of writing, I still have a lot to learn. So I go through the preliminary…
Read MoreIt takes a village to put on a BoucherCon. One of the early conversations we had about BoucherCon concerned coffee, specifically, the need for copious quantities of good coffee. And tea. Since two of the three author guests of honor are published by Random House, that house generously stepped up and offered to sponsor the…
Read MoreIt takes a village to run a BoucherCon. Rae Helmsworth, blessed be her name, asked me (back when BCon-San Francisco was but a twinkle in her mischief-filled eye) if I would consider being the US guest of honor. I had to think about it, for about a thousandth of a second, before I said yes. …
Read MoreNow, don’t these ladies look as if they’re having a good time?
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