It’e2’80’99s Monday of Edgars week, and Laurie made it to New York with no problems at all! A flight from SF under five hours, the man in front of me didn’e2’80’99t lie in my lap, and I had the forethought to buy a tasty veggie wrap in SF so I even had something to eat…

The web site has some changes, mostly to do with THE ART OF DETECTION. Let me know what you think.

An April newsletter will go out soon’e2’80’94with tour preliminaries for June and a recipe, for those of you who requested What’e2’80’99s Cooking with Laurie. I should also mention that if you like the idea of business cards for Russell and Martinelli but don’e2’80’99t use a Rolodex, you can always tuck the cards in your wallet…

The penultimate Monday Winner (one more ARC to give away, friends, to those on the newsletter mailing list) is Tom in Greenburg, PA. And, a newsletter will go out later this week, I’ll let you know just when so you can check that yours is getting through. What was the menu chez King for Easter?…

I’e2’80’99m on my way to talk to the librarians in San Francisco about the 1906 quake-and-fire, it being the centenary and they’e2’80’99re pulling in everyone who ever made so much as mention of the quake-and-fire in a book (mine was LOCKED ROOMS) and besides, they know I love librarians enough to get on the road…

By coincidence, Lee Goldberghas just finished a book, too, and is cleaning his office. In the four days since I reached the end of TOUCHSTONE, I’ve cleaned my office, as well. Also written and sent off renovations for the web site to the techie marvel; put together a 1500-word article on Sabine Baring-Gould (the main…

There is an update on the Doug Preston case in Italy, over at M J Rose’s blog, and what you can do.

And today, Catherine of Wellesly (sounds like some 15th century monarch, doesn’e2’80’99t it?) has won her shiny new copy of the ARC for The Art of Detection. Only two left after she claims hers, next Monday’e2’80’99s drawing and the Monday following’e2’80’94and then the hardbacks will be on the edge of shipping, so we may even…

Yesterday, 4:00. Finished first draft. TOUCHSTONE. Brain. Fried. Can’e2’80’99t. Think. Emergency shutdown. Argghhh.

First pre-publication review for THE ART OF DETECTION comes from Kirkus, who suspends their traditional curmudgeonliness to say: ‘e2’80’9cKing’e2’80’99s imagination is as generous as ever, and her use of the Sherlockian canon to ventilate contemporary issues is clever and impassioned.’e2’80’9d My blushes, Watson. **Weds was a 24 hour day with nearly eight of that spent…