2024!

Welcome to 2024: New year, new calendar, new thoughts. I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions, but around this time last year, I said that I wanted to focus on what has come to be known as “Swedish death-cleaning”—a rather noir term for dealing with all that stuff your kids won’t have any idea what to…

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Left Coast Laurie

Saturday (Feb 27) is a day-long celebration of great mysteries from Left Coast Crime. LCC is one of my favorite conferences, intimate and exciting, and I HATE that I can’t meet up in the bar.  Left Coast was my last outing before the world shut down last year…sigh. Here’s your chance to spend the day…

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BoucherCon, LRK-style

The panel schedule is out for Bouchercon (here) so I thought I’d let you know where I’ll be. You can find me wandering the hallways, always willing to chat with fans-and-friends and I’ll be dropping in at the Mystery Writers of America table, but more formally, I’ll be at— Thursday morning, in the book room…

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BoucherCons I have loved

Ah, BoucherCon. So many memories.  I wrote about some of them, over the years.  Such as: The Vegas Con: just… surreal. Washington, DC, a month after 9/11, and the comfort of friends. Albany, NY: my birthday, in a post-apocalytic setting… …with good friends… And you can’t get better than being a Con’s guest of honor,…

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The World of BoucherCon

BoucherCon, the Mystery Conference named to honor Anthony Boucher, takes place every fall. This year’s, the 50th, will be in Dallas. I’ve been to going to BoucherCons since before I was published, starting with London in 1990—and when I count them up, I’m astonished to find adds up to twenty-one of them!  I’ve been to gatherings…

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Fun with adverts

One of the fun things we do here in Team LRK is put together ads and images for various projects. I toss down some words and ideas, then Robert the Photoshop King tries to make sense of them. We always go back and forth a hundred times, but we always end up with something I…

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Left Coast Laurie

Left Coast Crime is coming, in Vancouver, BC—yahoo! And although any crime conference is mostly about the schmoozing in the bar or over coffee, there are panels. And I do have a couple of those. One on religion, and the other because Island of the Mad is nominated for a Lefty Historical award, which is really lovely: Religion…

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SinCing into a Retreat

I’m in Victoria, BC for a retreat with my Canadian Sisters in Crime. Not that they’re all Canadian, because there seem to be a fair number of folk from south of the border. And not that they’re all Sisters, since my friend Jim Ziskin is here (male Sisters are generally termed Misters, in SinC lingo.)…

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Me and BCon

The gathering of the Tribes of Mystery takes place in Toronto this year, from October 12-15. BoucherCon is the granddaddy of mystery conferences, with nearly four full days of multiple events simultaneously. If you’re looking for one Laurie King, you’ll find her at these panels: Thursday 2:30-3:30, Anatomy of Innocence (Grand Centre) Friday 5-6, interviewing…

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Edgar week!

Last week I was in New York for Edgars week, a whirlwind of writers and publishers and really good food and more to drink in two days than I had over the past two months. Wednesday was the Edgars week symposium, which is always interesting and this year was amazing: first-rate authors (most of their…

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