The Bones of Paris
Winner the second!
Congratulations to KarenB, and to the Hunterdon Library in Flemington New Jersey, winners of the Touchstone Book-Club-in-a-Box! Thanks to everyone who showed me their love for a library, and we’ll keep on doing these giveaways, since clearly there is plenty of support!
Read MoreGiveaway the second
[This giveaway is closed now, thanks for entering!] The second giveaway of the Bones of Paris season is a Touchstone Book-Club-in-a-box. This means fifteen copies of the paperback Touchstone, to be given to one library. Does your favorite library sponsor book clubs? If so, make a comment to this blog post with the name of…
Read MoreAnd the winners are…
The Mighty Random Number Generator (ten scraps of paper on the table in front of me) has come up with the four winners of the UK hardback for Touchstone. Congratulations to: Linda Barnett Adventure_Chick Krista Barbara Markusik If you four would like to send your mailing addresses to me at info@laurierking.com I’ll get your signed…
Read MoreGiveaway the First
[Giveaway closed now, thanks for reading!] To celebrate the publication of The Bones of Paris in six weeks, we are doing three giveaways. Today is the first. I have four copies of the previous Stuyvesant & Grey adventure, Touchstone, in the UK hardback edition published by Poisoned Pen Press some years ago. They’re signed, they’re…
Read MoreA Conversation
Did you get today’s Newsletter? If not, you didn’t see this:
Read More(P)interesting Bones
The Bones of Paris finds one-time Bureau of Investigation agent Harris Stuyvesant plunging into the tempestuous 1929 Montparnasse community of American writers, artists, and hangers-on. In the three years since hunting down an English terrorist in Touchstone, Stuyvesant has been doing a lot of private eye work. So why hasn’t he learned that when he’s…
Read MoreThese Bones are alive!
The page proofs for The Bones of Paris are come, and gone. This is a time of considerable rejoicing chez King because after this, I NEVER HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK EVER AGAIN. Except to flip through and choose bits for reading aloud, and maybe off in the future when I’m about to write the…
Read MoreHomecoming…with books
So I get home after a week in New York with publishers and Bethesda with Malice Domestic, and to my shock I find that the book elves haven’t shelved the boxes of books stacked in my new study. What, you guys on strike or something? So guess what I’m doing this week? Oh, in addition…
Read MoreThe Bones of Paris, scrubbing away
Midday on Thursday I sent the revised version of The Bones of Paris off to my editor. The much-revised version. Since getting the first draft back just before Thanksgiving, I’ve been chained to my chair, working 70+ hour weeks on it, to make up for having lost three months in the process of moving house. …
Read MoreEndings, and Beginnings
I typed the final chapter of The Bones of Paris yesterday afternoon with my grandson chuntering around at my knee, no doubt contributing his own influence to the words. I say “typed” rather than “wrote” because I actually finished the book ten days ago, but had a preliminary rewrite to do before I could send…
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