Friday’e2’80’99s flight was restored to the normal complement of children, or else I’e2’80’99d have begun to wonder if a home-schooling project was following me around. I arrived to find the delightfully named Pierre O’e2’80’99Rourke waiting for me, my usual Phoenix escort, and he drove me around this huge city to sign at one store after…

Okay, so here’e2’80’99s a day. 2:00 am: Nashville hotel. Young neighbors come in, party an hour, maybe more.4:45 am: Other neighbor’e2’80’99s radio alarm begins to play. Neighbor sleeps, LRK wakes, realizes that her own alarm clock (set for 5:30) has stopped.7:00 meets driver for ride to airport to catch 9:00 flight, trip takes 10 minutes.…

The Cracker Barrel is a chain of restaurants across the South (mostly) that are serious purveyors of carbohydrates. Pecan pancakes, grits (No, really, it’e2’80’99s not polenta under another name. Italians wouldn’e2’80’99t recognize it.), something called potato casserole that is a very, well, solid combination of potatoes and cheese’e2’80’94oh, and don’e2’80’99t forget their biscuits. With honey.…

Lexington is a gorgeous town. Clearly, that is the reason people at the event tonight drove from Cincinnati and Columbus, to see Lexington. I’e2’80’99m glad to have given them an excuse of a LRK event. But we know the truth. This was one of those rare days with large gaps in the schedule. The first…

One of the frustrations of flying is seeing something from the air and having no one at hand to ask for an explanation. Which mountain is that? What are those weird circles? And over Texas, why has someone shaved the vegetation along perfectly straight lines, with no awareness of paved roads crossed and feed lots…

Today I did an event for the store that has been supporting me in this writing gig since A Grave Talent in 1993. Capitola Book Caf’c3’a9 is owned by four women, one of whom was married to a colleague of my husband’e2’80’99s when he taught at UC Santa Cruz, which is how I came into…

Friday was a drop-in at the Barnes and Noble on Steven’e2’80’99s Creek in San Jose, where inevitably no one had any idea that I was coming, but by lovely synchronicity the solitary cashier had just set aside her very own copy of The Art of Detection to buy, so she had me sign it. And…

This is the split-brained part of a tour, before I’e2’80’99ve entered an airplane but when things are flying about around me. I started yesterday, with a drive to San Francisco and a tour of nine bookstores with media escort Naomi Epel, who knows all the places to park illegally in the city. I saw the…

Laurie R. King’s THE ART OF DETECTION promotionis now live on Mysterynet. This promotion and sweepstakes will run through 6/26. http://www.mysterynet.com/ http://www.mysterynet.com/books/ And to catch Laurie on the road:1st: San Mateo, CA (San Francisco drop-in signings)2nd: Menlo Park, CA3rd: Capitola, CA5th: Lexington, KY6th: Nashville, TN7th: Los Angeles, CA8th: Tempe AZAnd an event with Leslie Klinger:…

A couple of notes on LRK sightings. I’ll be in Chicago on September 27, on my way to Madison. And for Chris passing through SF, I will be dropping by to sign stock at that Borders on the afternoon of the 1st, along with most of the other bookstores in SF, if you want something…