“Sophie C. with her favorite reading matter to hand–Sophie carries her copy of O Jerusalem everywhere, and ‘reads’ it to herself in bed.”

I am currently thinking about the differences between the standalone and the series novel because although I’ve been touring, and hence talking about, TOUCHSTONE, at the same time I’m beginning a new Russell novel, the first time I’ve written her since LOCKED ROOMS, four years ago. THE LANGUAGE OF BEES (the new book’s name, for…

One event that failed to make it onto my site’s events page is this Sunday at the Santa Cruz public library, a showing and discussion of the new video “Mysterious California” with the four of us who are in it. Two to four o’clock, or thereabouts, and if you’re in the area and not trapped…

There seems to be a problem with the comments here on WordPress, do not adjust your sets. (Is that a sign of age, when you remember the days when sets could be adjusted?) So I’ll wait to post part two of the below, but in the meantime, this Friday I will be talking to Rick…

Kerry on the LRK Virtual Book Club recently brought up the question of standalone versus series novels: “I have a question for Laurie about standalones vs. series. I hope I’ll be able to express this properly. The question was sparked by reading Touchstone and being mesmerized by its depth and complexity. Then I got to…

Last weekend I linked to a poll on the question of to F or not to F, the restults of which were overwhelming (well, consider your audience…) However, one of the comments noted that LRK is not a writer who tosses in four letter words, er, willy nilly. (Sorry–although the Brits are the only ones…

My friends Ruth and Jon Jordan over at Central Crime Zone, the blog for Crimespree magazine, are hosting LRK today.

You can check out my visit to the Seattle Mystery Bookstore’s blog.

I’m told there’s a LRK podcast here. Let me know what you think. And if you can find it…

Six days: one 7:30 a.m. pickup, two 6:00s, and one 4 a.m.; nine full-fledged events of sixty to ninety minutes; two television and one radio spot; twenty drop-in chats with booksellers; four states; six cities; four plane flights; four escorts; four limo drivers; hundreds of greetings and handshakes; a few thousand autographs (my signature used…