Garment of Shadows
Giveaways!
Giveaways! Two of them! The first is a Goodreads giveaway for IN THE COMPANY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, now through October 20: Kirkus says: The range of the 15 new stories here is remarkable. One of the best, Sara Paretsky’s “The Curious Affair of the Italian Art Dealer,” is the most conservative, taking true delight in…
Read MoreA post-BCon post
I had a perfectly grand time at BoucherCon, an event Meg Gardiner calls summer camp for mystery lovers. (Next year it’s in Albany, New York, just in time for the trees turning color–you can register now, here.) Breakfasts with buddies, lunches with friends, dinner with the ragtag gang that call themselves the Friends of Laurie; panels…
Read MoreLRK and the Bestsellers
Thank you, everyone who helped push Garment of Shadows onto a whole passel of bestseller lists, from the Indies to the Gray Lady. That’s right, the New York Times has a spot for Laurie King, along with the Independent Booksellers of Northern California, and Southern California, and the Pacific Northwest, and, and. Thank you. I…
Read MoreWhere, oh where is my audio?
For those of you patiently (or otherwise) waiting for the audio of Garment of Shadows, I am told it will be up and available on Audible by the end of day tomorrow, at the latest. Apparently it was a problem with getting them the metadata and images. Whatever those might be. Anyway, Recorded Books and…
Read MoreDon we now our Garment of Shadows!
At last, the day we’ve been waiting for since…well, the last pub day: That’s right, today’s the release day for Garment of Shadows. I hope some of you will be at the Scottsdale launch party tonight, although if you’re in a different time zone, you can log on here to participate in everything except the…
Read MoreLyautey
Garment of Shadows will be in stores tomorrow! This is the last daily image and excerpt of our countdown, but you might want to re-visit these daily posts after you’ve read the book. “The older man on the other side of the brazier, dressed in a blue uniform with seven stars on its sleeve that…
Read MoreThe truck
Two days until Garment of Shadows! To keep you busy til then, I’ll be posting images from the book, with tidbits of prose to go along. You might even want to re-visit these posts after you’ve got your hands on the book. “The torch revealed that all the wheels were inflated, the tool compartment on…
Read MoreA piece of granite
Countdown to Garment of Shadows: three days to go! Til then I’ll be posting a daily image from the book, with snippets of prose from the book to go along. You might even want to re-visit these posts after you’ve read the book. “Mohammed Abd el-Krim was a piece of granite, his feet rooted in…
Read MoreTents in the desert
Garment of Shadows will be out in four days’ time. Until you get your hands on the book itself, you can feast your eyes on the pictures and snippets I’ll be posting here daily. “…he was scratching at the door of Madame’s tent.” (Photo by Mark Willenbrock.) Order yours from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or…
Read MoreCoffee
Until Garment of Shadows publishes — in just five days! — I’ll be posting images from the book, with tidbits of prose to go along. You might even want to re-visit these posts after you’ve got your hands on the book. “Black as hell, thick as death,” Holmes muttered in Arabic, watching the slim hands pour the…
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