Book talk
Now we are six
I’m not a big one for anniversaries and birthdays (sorry, kids) but it occurred to me this morning that I started this blog in February, and indeed, when I went looking, I found that last Thursday, Mutterings turned six. Interestingly, my first post (here) was about the lack of women in book awards (based on…
Read MoreStudies in Sherlock!
In my new-found identity as an official Sherlockian (BSI investiture: “The Red Circle”) I’ve been talking to über-Sherlockian Les Klinger about a couple of projects. One of them is a touch specialized, although I’ll be posting about it closer to its pub date. But the other is going to be such a blast, I have…
Read MoreBooks that nag
A salon.com article by Emma Silvers (26, whose age enters into the point of the article) talks about her dislike of ebooks,a despite being of the gadget generation. And she brings up an interesting point: Out of every argument I’ve heard in favor of e-readers — no dead trees, portable research, “it’s the future,” etc.…
Read MoreNo Great Women Artists?
A part of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz will be a retrospective of the LRK oeuvre—a fancy way of saying that I’ll be looking at each of my twenty books, a week at a time. We begin with A Grave Talent, the first Kate Martinelli novel, published January 1993 (Edgar and Creasey awards for Best…
Read MoreTurkeys and writers
Happy Christmas, everyone. And as you’re sitting at your table tomorrow, bloated and dyspeptic and stunned by the tryptophan in your roasted meleagris, you may find yourself wondering, How did Laurie King come to be a writer? Well, if you are able to stagger as far as your computer screen, you can have your answer,…
Read MoreChildren’s horror
It isn’t often I laugh aloud in a silent house, but I challenge you to read this review without snorking your tea out across the keyboard.
Read MoreThe world-wide convention
Yesterday all over the world, people went to a conference. I took place on two panels, one with Lee Child and our editor Kate Miciak (who were in New Jersey and Long Island, respectively,) the other with Nevada Barr (in New Orleans.) Since then I’ve listened to various other panels, including a conversation between the…
Read MoreMr Bradley and the murderous book club
If you happen to be in the LA sprawl this weekend, come on out to West Hollywood for the WeHo book festival. I’m doing two events on Sunday, an interview at 1:15 and a panel on spirituality and fiction at 3:45. ** We’ve started a new feature over at the LRK online book club this…
Read MoreSweetness? Sweet!
The Virtual Book Club, which I started in early 2007, has now worked its way through all the books in the LRK canon and a number of related novels and non-fiction works. So in September, we begin anew, only with a difference: We’ll do the occasional month of “The Writer as Reader” where I choose…
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