Events
All times and places are subject to change, so please double check before you get in your car! To order signed books from specific stores, click on the bookstore names below. You can also watch many of Laurie’s virtual events on YouTube or Facebook.
2025
June 1, 2:30 PM: Bay Area Book Festival, Brower Center, Berkeley, CA, moderating the panel “Mystery Writers Unmasking Larger Issues” with with Leslie Karst, Jennifer K. Morita, J. Richard Osborn and D.M. Rowell. Details here.
June 7, 2025, 5 PM: Pre-launch party for Knave of Diamonds at Poisoned Pen Books in Scottsdale, AZ. (Yes, you can buy your book and take it with you before pub day!) In conversation with Barbara Peters and Leslie S. Klinger, details to come, pre-order the book here.
June 10, 7 PM: Bookshop Santa Cruz book launch for Knave of Diamonds, Santa Cruz, CA. Details here.
July 18-20, Book Passage Mystery Writing Conference. Corte Madera, CA, details and registration here.
Past Events
For additional recordings of past interviews and events, please go to the Podcast page and to Laurie’s YouTube Channel.
- Three Grand Masters talk craft: Laurie R. King, Michael Connelly, and Walter Mosley with Nicholas Meyer talk about the writing craft. Watch it here.
- Laurie has done Facebook Live chats about thirty years of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (on Facebook and YouTube); writing The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, from pen to paperback (Facebook & YouTube); and Building the Russell Community (Facebook & YouTube).
- Five Things I’ve Learned about “What Makes Mysteries Great”: purchase access to watch the video here.
- Laurie discusses “How Characters Come to Life” at Book Passage: buy tickets (video included) here.
- 2021 Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture: Professor Noel Q. King helped introduce the study of religion to a young UC Santa Cruz and was instrumental in engaging Merrill College students in lifelong curiosity about and respect for the beliefs of the peoples of the world. This year marked the 5th Annual Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture at Merrill College. You can watch the recording here, and donate to the Noel Q. King memorial fund to support future events here.
