Events
Higher Mysteries podcast
My buddy Rick Kleffel has posted his podcasts of the Higher Mysteries panel, in which four top-ranking crime writers talk about using religion and theology in their work, on his web site, The Agony Column: “You’re all here for Tax Law 101, right?” —Laurie R. King For all the seriousness of her premise, Laurie R.…
Read MoreThe Mystery of a Good Event
What makes for a good event? Well, it helps when a moderator is working with three wicked smart women with lightning-fast tongues and a great sense of humor. And it also helps when the crowd is equally quick on their feet and genuinely interested in the subject. (This shows about half those who eventually crowded…
Read MoreHigher Mysteries, Santa Cruz style
Tuesday night finds me in rapt conversation with three other Ladies of Mystery, talking about how we use religion and theology in our crime fiction, and why. The panel will be podcast, and possibly videotaped (yes yes, I know they don’t use tape any more…) but if you’re anywhere in the vicinity, come and join…
Read MoreMalice!
I write from the fabulous Malice Domestic in Bethesda, MD, where readers devoted to the “traditional mystery”gather to share joys, appreciations, newly discovered passions, and glasses of various beverages. Malice Domestic chose me as their 2013 Guest of Honor, the Silver Anniversary (25 years!) and an honor it is indeed. I arrived yesterday by that…
Read MoreBeekeeper on the Beeb
One of the Lost Treasures of the LRKing universe is a radio adaptation the BBC did years and years ago of (under a previous cover, of course) which they broadcast, sold for a time in the shops, and then it sort of faded into the storied mists. Even I never got a copy of the…
Read MoreLibraries! Yes!
In case you didn’t open your newsletter (you are signed up for the News, aren’t you?) you may not have seen two Events With Deadlines, both celebrating next week’s National Library Week. Event the First: A contest. There’s a complete set of five Martinelli hardbacks with your name on it–or rather, with my name on…
Read MoreHigher Mysteries
On May 14, I will sit down with Zoe Ferraris, Sharan Newman, and Julia Spencer-Fleming to talk about Higher Mysteries. You do not want to miss this. It’s the 2013 King Lecture in Santa Cruz, at 7:00 in the main library at 224 Church Street.
Read MoreThe thrill is coming!
Just to give you a head’s up: the spring newsletter is going out tomorrow, with some exciting snippets in it. If you’re not signed up yet, you can do so here. More to come…
Read MoreDog love
I’m participating in an event Thursday night for: “UnChained, a Canines Teaching Compassion Program that helps change the lives of kids and save the lives of dogs by matching at-risk youth and shelter dogs together.” It’s at one of my favorite bookstores, Capitola BookCafe–details here.
Read MoreA literary soirée
The third event of the recent Pacific Northwest Library Extravaganza was a soirée called Author! Author! at the gorgeous offices of architects Rice/Fergus/Miller in Bremerton. Over the Puget Sound area’s most tasty appetizers, thriller writer Kevin O’Brien and I talked books– –and writing and drank some beer and talked and answered questions and… well, I…
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