…and to answer brackman 1066, and all that–the excerpt on which the Locked Rooms section of the crossword is based is from the very beginning of the book, so don’t worry about spoilers.

Seems to me I am an odd choice to speak to a writer’e2’80’99s conference. I’e2’80’99ve never taken so much as a class in writing, not since checking off the English requirement in junior college, and frankly don’e2’80’99t even know the right technical terms for a lot of what I do. However, the 75 or so…

Okay, for those of you who haven’e2’80’99t done the New Yorker’s Laurie King/Mary Russell crossword, you really should. Not only is it a way of telling them (them being my publisher) that you’e2’80’99re paying attention to LRK’e2’80’99s books, but you can actually win a mystery cruise trip that sounds pretty fun. I mean, what’e2’80’99s not…

The interview I did with Kacey Kowars is available on his site, for those of you just dying to hear the dulcet tones of Laurie R. King. And if anyone out there saw the television spot Saturday morning or hears the radio bit today, let me know what you think. I’e2’80’99ve had an entire forty-eight…

Home, sweet home. I had breakfast with my movie agent, who assured me all sorts of things were on the brink of happening, then joined up again with Peerless Ken the escort, who took me to sign at three or four places on the way to Mysteries to Die For in Thousand Oaks. Of course,…

The launch party pictures are up, accessed through a link on the home page or from the Locked Rooms page. Sorry you weren’e2’80’99t there? The trip along the coast from San Diego to Los Angeles ought to be sold as a tourist trip, it’e2’80’99s such an adventure in Californiana. Long beaches decorated with neoprene-clad surfers,…

Coming down towards the end of the away part of the LOCKED ROOMS tour, just Los Angeles to go, which I reach not by the traditional Californian methods of automobile or plane, but by (gasp) train. Only a New York publicist would think of mass transit to get a person from San Diego to LA.…

Thanks to my fellow bloggers who turned out in Bellingham’e2’80’94and remember, Jacqui’e2’80’94mothers are designed to embarrass their daughters. It’e2’80’99s part of the job description. I got back to the hotel before eleven, and up again this morning for a 7:15 pickup. I am writing this in the SeaTac airport waiting for my flight to be…

Well, I have to admit, that when I’e2’80’99m up and throwing clothes into a suitcase at 4:30 in the morning, posting a blog isn’e2’80’99t the first thing on my mind. You will forgive me? The 7:30 am flight out of Houston arrived in Seattle a little late, thanks to the clever planning of the Houston…

It’e2’80’99s summertime, and the livin’e2’80’99 is humid. Greetings from Houston, the country’e2’80’99s fourth largest city (as the board on the way in from the airport cheerily informs a visitor’e2’80’94in lights, so it can be changed instantaneously with any shift in population.) A city with summer weather seeing rough matches in temperature and humidity, both in…