Lockdown
The OTHER Laurie King: a PI with a difference
I’ve been writing a few blog posts about “the OTHER Laurie R. King” (see the rest here) that talk about why I write those stories that aren’t inside the Russell & Holmes universe. In some cases, the world Russell inhabits is a little too whimsical for the theme I want to explore. Other times I…
Read MoreWe all win!
Congratulations to Rebecca Weber, Laura from Pennsylvania, Dee Ayres, Karen Ihms, Randall Price, Alison T, Tina Hoggatt, and Jay Roberts—who all won copies of the advanced galleys for Lockdown. You’ll have them very soon, friends! And congratulations to…well, me, I suppose—for the sweetheart of a Kirkus review that met me on my way to the…
Read MoreThe OTHER Laurie King: Folly
This is a blast from the past, a post I wrote in 2010 about a book that’s currently on sale for $1.99 from your friends at the Kindle company, here. Folly is one of my standalone novels–the other Laurie King–and it’s interesting to see that it, like the upcoming Lockdown, is essentially a meditation on…
Read MoreFirst review a STAR!
The weeks between seeing the paper-bound galleys and getting the first review are always a nervous time. Will they get it? Will they LIKE it?? Well, Booklist does: Issue: May 1, 2017 Lockdown. Advanced Review – Uncorrected Proof King, Laurie R. (Author) Jun 2017. 400 p. Bantam, hardcover, $28. (9780804177931). It’s Career Day at Guadalupe…
Read MoreThe OTHER Laurie King: Califia’s Daughters
“The other Laurie R. King” is my series of reflections—as we approach the publication of a distinctly non-Russellian story, Lockdown—on why I write books that aren’t Russell and Holmes. Stories that just push at me until I have to step outside Mary Russell’s time and place. For other posts on the topic, click here. The first…
Read MoreGiveback Tuesday: Library week LOCKDOWN giveaway!
Want a copy of Lockdown? Ooh, yes, look at these, you know you do… Okay: we all know that libraries—and librarians—rock, right? And we all know that, as my dedication to The Moor put it, librarians… “…spend their lives in battle against the forces of darkness.” Now more than ever. But no matter our niche…
Read MoreOne writer’s travails
Left Coast Crime is an annual conference that moves around the left coast, generally of the US. This year LCC was in Honolulu. Like the other moveable crime conferences, location is a prime consideration, since fans and readers use this as a holiday as well as a chance to meet their favorite writers. So, the…
Read MoreLockdown: the proof is in the reading
Despite being theoretically on holiday on the island of Hawaii, I’ve spent most of the past three days working on the proof pages of Lockdown, which the publishers would like back on Friday, thank you, despite being toastmaster at a crime conference or working on various projects for my many overlords. I finished today, although my…
Read MoreLockdown’s Looks…
Career Day at Guadalupe Middle School: a day given to innocent hopes and youthful dreams. A day no one in attendance will ever forget. A year ago, Principal Linda McDonald arrived at Guadalupe determined to overturn the school’s reputation for truancy, gang violence, and neglect. One of her initiatives is Career Day—bringing together children, teachers,…
Read MoreLocking down Lockdown
My life at the moment is a barrage of emails from what seems like fourteen different Yahoo forums (forae?) that confuse me no end, since a reply will come in and I think it applies to discussion A and so I research and write out my comment only to realize that no, the subject line has…
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