Laurie R. King

David Montgomery— http://www.crimefictionblog.com/2008/09/the-confines-of.html —talked recently about the perennial question of crime versus literary fiction. In this case it was triggered by a Janet Maslin review of the new historical novel by Dennis Lehane, The Given Day, which Maslin describes as a “fiery epic that moves him far beyond the confines of the crime genre.” One…

The audio posts of panels from last June’s CrimeFest are up, at http://www.crimefest.com/programme_2008.html . You’ll find LRK on Friday at 3 and Sunday at noon (the Saturday morning panel doesn’t seem to have recorded.) Let me know if the links work, or don’t, for you.

I wrote this post before Oprah announced her next reading club pick, but didn’t get around to putting it up until now. If you’re going to read THE LIFE OF EDGAR SAWTELLE you have my permission to skip this post because it gives stuff away. Like, the ending. *** I’ve been working on the ending…

I had a good birthday this week, starting at 9:30 in the morning when I hit the send button and The Language of Bees flew cross country and onto my editor’s computer. (This explains my recent e-absence, because 8 hour days spent juggling words leaves little inclination to play with them elsewhere.) Sending off the…

A flywheel is a device for storing energy: some machine or water flow or what have you gets it running and the wheel flies around, faster and faster, ready to transfer that energy into driving whatever piece of equipment one might require. A flywheel resists changes in its speed of rotation, and it needs a…

If you wander over to the BoucherCon program site at http://programmingb-con08.blogspot.com/, you’ll find my name quite a lot– October 9-12, 2009, Baltimore BoucherCon Thursday 11:30: LIVING IN THE PAST (Jethro Tull) Getting research right. Laurie R. King(M), Rennie Airth, James R. Benn, Charles Todd, Jeri Westerson Thursday 3:00: IT’S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE (Glen Campbell) Telling…

You may nave noticed that there’s nothing to see here, and moved along. I am head-down in the rewrite, six or eight hours straight of either reading the thing aloud (muttering it, actually, and haltingly, since I stop every few words to change something, then have to re-read the paragraph as corrected) or else inputting…

My daughter dared me to write about the movie we saw last night (Hi, sweetie) because she thinks my fans imagine me as hanging around the art-movie house (And you’d better believe Santa Cruz has one, or three) instead of guffawing helplessly over a piece of gore-soaked inanity like Tropic Thunder, and that I should…

I’ve written here about my fondness for RIF, the national Reading is FUNdamental program that gives books to kids. Well, I see that there’s a nice program going on, of all places, at Macy’s. If you give them $3 as a RIF donation, they’ll pass all of that $3 over to RIF, and give you…

The editor, as I’m sure I’ve said before, is the writer’s first reader. She (well, yes, there are a few guys in editorial chairs) is more than that, of course: the editor is generally the person who buys the book for the publishing house, negotiates the contract, knocks the book into shape, and oversees the…