If you’d like to join us for lunch during my time in Madison, WI for BoucherCon, some Friends of King (and King herself) will be at the Café Continental at 108 King (!) Street in Madison, from 12:30 until about 2:00. See you then! Of course, if you’re in Chicago, come see us at Centuries…

I have been thinking about submission lately. No, not the kind of submission where you send in a piece of work to a judging panel, but the kind where you feel the weight of a burden, and you see how much grace you can summon while you’ve got it on your back. Islam means submission.…

I thought it might be nice to meet up with any Friends of King who are attending the Madison BoucherCon, just to say hi. If people are free for lunch Thursday, say 1:00, we could kick things off before my own 3:00 panel. If anyone who would like to join would post a comment here,…

NPR’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge” on September 17th will include as the second hour: HOUR TWO – “Elementary Holmes”“Forget the deerstalker cap and the calabash pipe. The real Sherlock Holmes is much hipper than that. One scholar suggests that with his violin, creative spirit, cocaine and costumes, Holmes was the rock star of…

At the moment, it takes a prominent article in the paper to make me sit up and take notice, and especially to read to the end, but here’s one from the Sunday SF Chronicle:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/03/INGR0KRGMF1.DTL I’m such an innocent. Last year when Barbara Bush announced a donation to the hurricane zone that had a string attached,…

At the moment, it takes a prominent article in the paper to make me sit up and take notice, and especially to read to the end, but here’s one from the Sunday SF Chronicle–http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/03/INGR0KRGMF1.DTL I’m such an innocent. Last year when Barbara Bush announced a donation to the hurricane zone that had a string attached,…

It’s odd, but the past few days I’ve felt like three Lauries in one. The first Laurie is fighting summer traffic to hospitals, making a thousand phone calls to doctors and caregivers, overseeing the move from hospital to rehab center (Somehow the statement “My husband’s in rehab” evokes more Robert Downey with sunken eyes than…

THE ART OF DETECTION goes on sale today in England. This dawned on me yesterday, when one of my husband’s nurses mentioned the date and I realized that I’d intended to be driving across Europe today in the car I’d ordered, bound for England and a series of events there. Poisoned Pen Press are great…

I had hoped I would have better news for those of you in Europe who were hoping to have a LRK sighting this year, but my husband’s perilous state of health means I’m going to have to cancel the UK leg of the September tour, and probably cancel the Italian conference as well. And I…

Something I try to do with my novels is tie them in to a larger picture—O JERUSALEM pokes around the realization that, if the British had done things differently during the Mandate, we might have a different set of problems in the Middle East today; WITH CHILD confronts the terrible way we as a society…