Kate Martinelli
A Writer to Watch!
Part of the month-long celebration of A Grave Talent, the Edgar-winning first novel about SFPD Inspector Kate Martinelli that started my writing career. One of the surprises I found as a new author was that people not only read the book, but talked about it as if it mattered. Take reviews: who knew they were…
Read MoreWriting Kate
(Celebrating the 30th anniversary of A Grave Talent, here’s part of a 2017 post on Kate Martinelli.) Grave Talent began with two ideas: What would Rembrandt look like if he were a woman? And, Can I write a novel in which the protagonist does nothing? The question of women in what are generally assumed to be…
Read MoreBeginnings Cover Reveal contest
Hey, it’s time for a cover reveal–and an e-puzzle! Here’s what you do: Go here. Do the puzzle, on your computer or mobile device. When you’ve done it, send me an email to info@LaurieRKing.com with the subject Beginnings, and tell me what the main image of the puzzle is. We’ll do a drawing from the…
Read MoreBillie & the Art of Detection
“The Marriage of Billie Birdsong” is still up for free download, and will be until March 11. However, the sweepstakes giveway of a hardback The Art of Detection– is only running until Thursday night! All you US residents can enter that here. Enjoy, and good luck!
Read MoreSherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle, and Same-Sex Marriage
This month, I’m celebrating the equality of marriage. The Art of Detection is a Kate Martinelli novel with two timelines, one of which is in the spring of 1924, when (according to the Mary Russell memoirs) Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell spent some time in San Francisco. But maybe they didn’t. Maybe the story of Sherlock…
Read MoreBeginnings: a Kate Martinelli story
Only five weeks after I’d hoped to finish it, I now have this: Beginnings A Kate Martinelli story by Laurie R. King Please note: story, not novel. See the thickness of that stack of pages? This is a 115 page novella, not a full-sized book. I don’t have a pub date for it yet. But…
Read MorePuzzles from the past
For the story I’m working on—a novella, in which SFPD Inspector Kate Martinelli revisits her past—I needed to have her look at some high school yearbooks. To remind myself what they looked like, I dug out my own. Now, I graduated in 1970. Ever since I bought the thing, I’ve wondered what the hell a “Micopacen”…
Read MoreLockdown: cops & wise fools
Some of the characters that come to life on the page just beg to return. One of those was Brother Erasmus, the enigmatic hero of the second Kate Martinelli novel, To Play the Fool. I couldn’t resist bringing Brother Erasmus back—and, briefly, Kate herself—in a 2008 short story for Mike Connelly (The Blue Religion) called…
Read MoreThe OTHER Laurie R. King
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the kinds of stories that I can’t tell inside the world of Mary Russell. So I decided to write a few blogs about those stories, and what I could do with them, and them alone. I’ve been thinking about the non-Russells partly because I’ve been writing a standalone novel—but also because the act of…
Read MoreHow about a Throwback Thursday?
Going through some files the other day, I came across a few unexpected voices from the past—so I thought, hey kids, let’s have a couple of Throwback Thursdays here on Mutterings! So, how about some old covers that didn’t quite make it into the real world? I’ve talked before about the original proposed cover of…
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