Laurie R. King

Michael Chabon was nominated for an Edgar this year, for The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. He didn’t win, although the book did win SciFi prizes, it being a cop story set in an alternate universe, so it was nice of him to leave a prize for someone else. I’ve known Michael for some years, since both…

Three years ago (good heavens!) I posted about a story in Wired magazine concerning four Phoenix high school students who won a national contest to build an underwater robot, beating students from places like MIT. Wired has done a followup on the four, an article that just makes me happy. Oscar, Cristian, Luis, and Lorenzo,…

Here are two additions for the list of UK events that I posted Monday—and if you’re thinking of coming and want to set up a meet with other Friends of LRK, we’ve started a get-together thread on the book club’s Meetup page. The new events are: June 9, 7:00 Bath Topping & Co The Paragon,…

Okay, you Brits—I’m coming! Yes, I have the preliminary schedule for my United Kingdom tour—a couple events have yet to be confirmed, but you can keep an eye on the events page to see if they manage to find a room for us. I hope people turn up, even if they don’t buy books it…

Just in time for Mothers Day, an article telling us that, if stay-at-home moms got a monetary compensation for the 90-plus hours a week they work, it would average $117,000 a year. (Ninety plus hours a week, by the way, if she manages to get 8 hours sleep a night–big if–leaves said Mom with 20…

I reached New York (read: Manhattan) for the first time on the Monday night of the Memorial Day Weekend, 1993. The next morning I set off in a taxi (admission: in fifteen or more visits over the intervening years, I’ve never yet been on the subway) to the Flatiron Building and St Martin’s Press, to…

The first time I passed through New York—well, actually just the airport—was on my way to India back in the Seventies. My chief impression was amazement, that people actually talked like dat. Twenty years later, I had a book published by St Martin’s Press. It did okay, well enough that they wanted another book, and…

So, why New York? Not an existential question, although indeed when I’m standing on a street corner in the rain jostled by humanity and competing with twenty other black-clad women (all of them in shoes that I could not even stand in, much less leap for a cab door in) for one paltry taxi with…

As some of you may have picked up over the years, SJ Rozan is one of the friends I’ve made in this odd business, where colleagues tend to be spread very, very thinly around the world. But since her home base is New York, and since I go to NY once a year and we…

The Edgars award winners for 2008 are at http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html I had a grand time at the Edgars banquet, especially since I wasn’t a nominee so there was no nerves and quivers, just hanging with friends and catching up on publishing life with people in the business. But I’m tired and it’s after midnight, and I…