Events
Piles of Pirates
The drama of the Laurie R. King Pirate King tour, in 16 seconds:
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Since Tuesday’s launch at Book Passage in the Ferry Building in San Francisco, I’ve been welcomed by some great and enthusiastic stores. (Visit the Events page to see if they have any signed books left.) Today, the University of Washington Bookstore in Seattle put on a fabulous event for Pirate King, inviting the Seattle Gilbert &…
Read MoreGarden Party TwInvitation
You say your Royal Wedding invite got lost in the mail? The White House staff seems to be ignoring you this summer? Well, fret no longer, your invitation to the social event of the season–nay, the year, is here. If you’re feeling social, drop in and chat with Mary Russell and friends (Will that husband…
Read MoreMysterious California
I love libraries. I adore them, always and continuously. My abiding affection had a boost last night, with an event in the Sunnyvale (CA) library, where some of the staff remembered me as part of an event—oh, how many years ago could it have been? Thirteen? Fourteen?—with Sisters in Crime authors. This time it was…
Read MorePirate ready to sail!
Pirate King sets sail three months from today! That means it’s time for: Details of the contests, drawings, and piratical shenanigans will be given in weeks to come, but for the moment, you should know from here on out, the excerpts will be given first in the LRK newsletter, then some days later on the…
Read MorePub Night Live!
This just in from Will at Poisoned Pen Central: This is Will from The Poisoned Pen. We will be webcasting this event 7pm MST, and you can tune in on our blog www.poisonedfiction.blogspot.com(click the webcast tab) or at www.livestream.com/poisonedpenauthorevent Once the event is over the video will be available for replay, so you DON’T necessarily…
Read MoreA Night at the Pub (Poisoned Pen style)
Tomorrow’s a Night at the Pub at Poisoned Pen Books, Scottsdale, complete with a keg, crisps, atmospheric fog (!) and some giveaways (a drawing of the signed broadsheet, “Birth of a Green Man,” by LRK.) And these: The night’s theme fits Willis’s double story told in Blackout and All Clear . In Blackout, Connie Willis…
Read MoreLunch (tea?) with Laurie!
Want to win Lunch with Laurie? (or tea, or brunch..?) The Carmel Bach Festival is holding a fund-raiser and auctioning off, among other things, a time with this author. Here’s their link, the auction finishes August 1st, and the time and place (local to me) is to be worked out.
Read MoreWhew—twenty weeks!
Back in December, we opened up a new and beautiful web site, and kicked off the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, to celebrate and speculate about my books. I chose the number because The God of the Hive would be my twentieth novel, and I wanted to write a brief essay about each book. I also…
Read MorePlaying The Game
For a hundred years or so, devotees of Sherlock Holmes have been playing the game. It is, amongst the faithful, an accepted behaviour and part of the “romance” of being a Sherlockian or Holmesian, depending on which side of the pond you call home. More recently the readers of Mary Russell’s memoirs have joined in…
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