We speak today of heroic acts. It is, after all, one of the reasons we read, and write, crime fiction, because there’s a hero, who makes us think, What if I..? A paradigm for behavior, a reinforcement of Right versus Wrong. I, too, might find it in me to be a hero. A party, filled…

Those of you who get the newsletter will know this, but for newcomers to the game, here it is. Sound the trumpets and draw back the drapes the latest creation in the Laurie King electronic universe: The Laurie R. King Virtual Book Club, or, LRK VBC. That’s right, a book club where readers don’t have…

Mary Jane Dickson was born May 21, 1922, in San Francisco, to two survivors of the 1906 earthquake and fire (the link shows a photo of Mary in her mother’s belly.) She grew up on the peninsula south of San Francisco, but after high school moved back to The City to work at The Emporium.…

Patience is not one of the stronger characteristics of the Internet universe. After all, aren’t blogs and web sites the very definition of ephemeral? So I have to thank you all for your patience with this remarkably slow process of getting a book club underway. The official announcement is coming out soon, certainly before the…

Can anyone out there explain to me what it IS with tech people? I mean, I expect the lack of social skills that means most of them don’t actually speak English and they punctuate every conversation with long, exasperated sighs, but at the end of it, isn’t the whole thing a little counter-productive it they…

You found your way here, thanks for persisting, but have you seen the shiny new look on the LRK web site to your left? Just the first of many changes, so keep checking with us. But before we get all excited about things, we need to tidy up the Q&As that came in for May…

Okay, I think I’ve had enough of tolerance. Last Friday, Israeli gays gathered for a pride rally in Jerusalem, to celebrate life in general and gayness in particular. The rally had originally been scheduled to include a march through the streets, but that part was cancelled because the religious right threatened to respond with a…

For the next two years, we will see a monstrous regiment of (three) women, Democrats from California, rising up to give nightmares to the boys in DC back rooms. Pelosi, Feinstein, and Boxer are savvy, they’ve got their agendas in line, and they’re fed up to here. Time for the old Chinese curse: May life…

Q: From Kathleen, What did you draw on for the descriptions of Rae’s woodwork in “Folly”? A: My father repaired furniture for a living for a while, and built furniture for various family members’e2’80’94we eat off a table he made, although every year at Thanksgiving when we gingerly put the leaf into it we wonder…

I may be knee-deep in life’e2’80’99s little lessons at the moment, but I did take an hour off to talk to the ever-witty and well-read Michael Artsis, whose interview on Hey Listen radio can be found at Heylisten.com. Use this link as a back up if you need it:http://heylisten.com/Audio/071006_LaurieKing_whlr.mp3