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Folly
Each Tuesday during this spring’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’m talking about a different one of my twenty books, with remarks and reflections about the writing process. This is the eleventh week, so I’ll be looking at Folly, published in 2001, which won the Macavity award and the Washington State Award. Sometimes, a book’s greatest…
Read MoreNight Work (2000)
Tuesdays during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz are given over to a look at each of my twenty books, a week at a time, giving some tidbit of information or background about the writing process. I am a San Francisco native, more or less. My mother was born there, and her mother before her; although…
Read MoreThe God of the Hive, part three
A third excerpt of The God of the Hive has gone up, and can be found here via the book page: In which we are reintroduced to the man with several names. Also, a newsletter is going out today, full of News and Excitement–if you’re one of those who opens it up by Monday night,…
Read MoreO Jerusalem (1999)
Each Tuesday during this spring’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’ll be posting about a different one of my twenty books, with remarks, reflections, and information about the writing process. (Click on the photos below to enlarge.) A historical mystery would appear to be a contradiction in terms: If something already happened, where’s the mystery in…
Read MoreA Darker Place
Each Tuesday during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’ll post about a different one of my twenty books, with remarks, reflections, and snippets of information about the writing process. This week we visit A Darker Place, which was published in 1999. Nearly all religions begin with personal revelation followed by a handful of convinced fanatics…
Read MoreThe Moor
Tuesdays during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz will present some bit of information or background about each of my twenty books, one at a time. This is week seven, and we’re talking about The Moor, published in 1998. For two articles by LRK on ACD, see “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle” in AZ Murder Goes Classic…
Read MoreA Letter of Mary
Tuesdays during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz are given over to a look at each of my twenty books, one each week, with some reflection or bit of information or background about it. This week, A Letter of Mary, published in 1997. My background is theology, with degrees in Comparative Religion and in Old Testament.…
Read More(Re)writing GotH II
The second excerpt for The God of the Hive is here, with more to follow on the 27th of February and March. For those curious about the creative process (who among us is not?) each will be followed by a post showing the first draft of that section, with brief remarks about the rewrite process.…
Read MoreWith Child
Each Tuesday during this spring’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’ll be posting about a different one of my twenty books, with remarks, reflections, and snippets of information about the writing process. With Child was the third Kate Martinelli novel, published in 1996, and was short listed for the Orange Prize. Writing about children under threat…
Read MoreNo Great Women Artists?
A part of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz will be a retrospective of the LRK oeuvre—a fancy way of saying that I’ll be looking at each of my twenty books, a week at a time. We begin with A Grave Talent, the first Kate Martinelli novel, published January 1993 (Edgar and Creasey awards for Best…
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