A while back I was going through the checkout line in the grocery store (Yes, we Big Time Authors do our own shopping. We also stand in line in the post office, when we can’t bully someone else into doing it, clean the toilet before the cleaning lady comes, and change our own smoke alarm…

I’d like to open up the blog for Q&A, it being the first of the month (well, the 4th, but in fact, tomorrow’s the 1st for most offices out there) however, I’m already Q&A’ing over at the Virtual Book Club. This month, can we try having you post any questions over there? If you really…

The gates are open over at the LRK Virtual Book Club for The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, when readers around the world can focus in on such age-old conundra as “Is there some meaning to the name Mary Todd?” and “Why does Holmes use two colors to mark the bees?” and even “Would an overdose of turmeric…

If you want to know what LRK wishes she was doing today (well, maybe not the arriving-at-Heathrow part) take a look at my guest blog at the Lady Killers blog.

I just wanted to alert you all to an upcoming event that should have you checking the flight schedules for the weekend: The Spirit of Watsonville parade on July 4th will feature the Bookettes, ten crack members of the Watsonville Public Library Book Cart Drill Team, as they circle and weave their way through drill…

All readers of LRK are winners in the sense of superior taste in anything to do with the printed word, but ten LRK readers now have something physical to show for their status of winnerdom: llm132506 Soaney Red Spider wpriest A Typical Sorority Girl spiston doc watson chewmama celticmusiclvr annmeeker The drawing for the Virtual…

If you’ve been visiting here during the past year, you’ll have watched the progress (sic?) of TOUCHSTONE, and wondered whether LRK will ever finish the damned book. The process of writing, or rather, of rewriting the book has been extraordinarily difficult, for a number of reasons, many of them out of my control—family matters take…

Laurie wins a Lambda! The 2007 Best Lesbian Mystery from the Lambda Literary Foundation, for The Art of Detection.

As Ms Russell mentioned in her Myspace blog, if you sign up by the 15th for the Virtual Book Club, your name will be in a drawing for one of ten copies of the shiny new paperback of The Art of Detection, signed by yrs truly.

What with one thing and another, I neglected to say that the blog Poe’s Deadly Daughters has an interview with yrs truly, although because of my tardiness, you’ll have to scroll down to June 7 to see it. Sorry, Liz!