(Apologies–I have a new machine that is proving shy about interacting with the blog program, so this post, from Thursday, is just finding its way to light. Laurie King Inc: the place to come for cutting edge technological wizardry.) … Romance is gone from the world. A journey that should be recognized with drama, import,…
Read MoreWell, friends, here it is: draft one of next year’s Russell & Holmes novel, Pirate King: I came home from the God of the Hive tour (which had also been a trip to Portugal/Morocco/France/England) in mid-May with 70 pages of Pirate King written, about half what I had hoped for by that time. And inevitably,…
Read MoreOh, I do love this time of year, every morning: Strawberries, pineapple, blueberries, and raspberries. Ahhh.
Read MoreSo, have you enjoyed our little break from All Things Laurie? Or did going cold turkey disturb your world too much? I hadn’t actually intended quite such a long break without Muttering at you, but it took me nearly a month after getting home from Portugal/Morocco/France/England/book tour to get my life in some kind of…
Read MoreSometimes with family, you really luck out. True, sometimes family saddles you with serial killers and moustachioed aunts with lethal halitosis, but sometimes, that sprawling entity known as family presents you with a gift. One of my husband’s granddaughters brought an extraordinary man into our family. I mean, we all knew he was a great…
Read MoreWe’ve finished up with the 2010 online madness, Twenty Weeks of Buzz, with our grand finale at Poisoned Pen books in Scottsdale on Wednesday night. I have one final event, next Tuesday at Bookshop Santa Cruz, and then it’s clear sailing until July and the UK. I can write an entire book in seven weeks,…
Read MoreThe God of the Hive was not the book’s original title. My working title (and I won’t be giving any spoilers in this post, so don’t worry) was The Green Man, but how we got from one to the other makes for a long and complicated explanation that is best boiled down to: My editor…
Read MoreWant to know more about The God of the Hive? Like, how on earth a person like Robert Goodman came to be? You have a chance to win “Birth of a Green Man,” the illustrated short story about a key moment in Goodman’s history, by sending me the receipt for the book purchased from an…
Read MoreQ: What do these names have in common: Glen Miranker, David Scheiman, Richard Sosa, Chris Williams, and Alice Wright? A: Each of these good folk has a doppelganger in the fiction of one Laurie R. King. About once a book, I donate a character name to one charity or another. This year, the charity is…
Read MoreWhat’s this I see? Mary Russell has a new post over on her MySpace page? Episodes of “A Case in Correspondence” will appear there Wednesdays throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, and on Fridays you can find them here at Mutterings. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up…
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