Events
Takeback Tuesday: taking back justice
Today is pub day for a book I’ve been involved with for the past year or more: Anatomy of Innocence is the brainchild of Laura Caldwell and Leslie S.Klinger, both lawyers, both friends of mine. Laura is the director and founder of the Life After Innocence clinic at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, which…
Read MoreNo hand-bag clutching in NOLA
The first mystery conference I ever attended was in London, in 1990. At the time, I had a separate agent for the English/Commonwealth market, and she happened to mention that there was this conference that I might go to… Because it coincided with family stuff, I went. And found it interesting, and informative, and more…
Read MoreThe Writer/Library Admiration Socie
MWA NorCal joins forces with the Oakland library this Saturday for: Loving the Library If you’re a regular reader of Mutterings, you know that I love libraries. This Saturday, I get to interview Emily Weak, the adult services librarian at the Rockridge branch, about how writers and libraries make for a mutual admiration society. I’ll…
Read MoreNaming a not-so-new baby
Hey, friends–I’m in the process of making a new web site with just that things on it that readers have contributed–the art, writing, crossword puzzles, etc that we’ve done in various contests and promos over the years, along with pieces that I’ve done for events and such. So my question for you is: what do we call…
Read MoreUm, like, you know?
I love NPR. But sometimes, it puts my teeth on edge. I don’t listen to a lot of radio, mostly when I’m driving somewhere, but my local station (KAZU, 90.3 FM, at CSUMB) keeps me company whenever I’m on the road in Santa Cruz county. However, I have a complaint–not aimed at KAZU, mind you, but…
Read MoreLaurie emerges from her cave
Neck deep as I am in a first draft, nonetheless I’m due to extricate myself this week from the blizzard of paper scraps that is my study to appear in public, face scrubbed and carrying on normal conversation (as opposed to muttering vague bits of dialogue under my breath.) Thursday night I’ll be in San…
Read MoreStately Stories
News—and yes, it is new, brand new. A story: Stately Holmes A Christmas Conundrum by Laurie R. King “Stately Holmes” was…well, not exactly commissioned. Suggested? Demanded? –by my friend Barbara Peters of Scottsdale’s Poisoned Pen Books. Well, Barbara was hoping for a full novel by that title, but I decided it was better matched for…
Read MoreCommunity conversations
For a chance to hear about the new stories, before anyone (well, anyone but my editor…) read on… I started my college life at a California junior college called West Valley, located near my home in Saratoga. I had no money, no job, and no idea of what I wanted to do–which made community college…
Read MoreThe King lecture
Once upon a time there was a man born in India, educated in England, working in Africa, who was hired by a visiting American to help set up a new college and program at the newest jewel in the crown that is the University of California. When Noel King came to Santa Cruz, most of…
Read MoreMe & Edgar & Agatha & friends
That shriek that rattled the country just before 10:00 pm EST was me reacting to the sound of my name from the podium at the Agatha Awards: Malice Domestic’s choice of Best Historical Mystery is Dreaming Spies, by Laurie R. King! I was nominated for an Agatha once before (for The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, in 1995) and…
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