Laurie R. King

Of course, when you get to my advanced age, which is (I’ll admit this) three years, you tend to forget birthdays, as I did yesterday. Yes, this blog started three years ago, with the first posting on the old site. So perhaps it’s time for an informal survey (and let’s hope the comments are working…

When my kids were small, I was very active in the Home and School club, like the PTA without the national clout behind it. This school was one where white faces were very much in the minority, where my two enrolled in Spanish as a Second Language by just walking into the classroom. Which is,…

Here’s another podcast from the golden voice of Rick Kleffel and our recent show at KUSP. Same scary picture, though. *** I am, finally, back in the swing of writing. The Language of Bees is now well over 100 pages, and growing at a rate of 2000 words a day, some more and some less.…

My good buddy Dana Stabenow has a new book out this week, not one of her Kate Shugak series but a standalone thriller. Although I’m not sure you can have a thriller that uses the word “snickerdoodles” or in which the characters discuss Robert Heinlein, but that’s Dana for you. Take a look at her…

My friend Rick Kleffel has posted an interview with me, accompanied by a really frightening picture, at his blog the Agony Column

The Touchstone tour was bracketed by my two beloved local bookshops. Capitola Bookcafe started things off on January 7th with a champagne toast, glasses (REAL glasses) of a very nice champagne for everyone at the event. It was a very nice event. I think. Anyway, I had a good time. Then on the 26th I…

“Sophie C. with her favorite reading matter to hand–Sophie carries her copy of O Jerusalem everywhere, and ‘reads’ it to herself in bed.”

I am currently thinking about the differences between the standalone and the series novel because although I’ve been touring, and hence talking about, TOUCHSTONE, at the same time I’m beginning a new Russell novel, the first time I’ve written her since LOCKED ROOMS, four years ago. THE LANGUAGE OF BEES (the new book’s name, for…

One event that failed to make it onto my site’s events page is this Sunday at the Santa Cruz public library, a showing and discussion of the new video “Mysterious California” with the four of us who are in it. Two to four o’clock, or thereabouts, and if you’re in the area and not trapped…

There seems to be a problem with the comments here on WordPress, do not adjust your sets. (Is that a sign of age, when you remember the days when sets could be adjusted?) So I’ll wait to post part two of the below, but in the meantime, this Friday I will be talking to Rick…