Laurie R. King

Today our Touchstone virtual tour touches down at, of all places, the venerable Wall Street Journal, with a piece entitled “Roiled Britannia” which concludes: Like a well-managed Edwardian soirée, “Touchstone” is by turns relaxed, tense, amusing, thought-provoking — and memorably satisfying. And slightly off topic for a Touchstone tour, but who’s counting, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice…

Today I’m visiting one of my long-time favorite blogs, The Rap Sheet, to talk about Touchstone, writing, and the responsibilities of fiction. The first post of the day is up, but there’ll be more–I’ll probably post following my radio talk this morning with Rick Kleffel, and and later on as well. Although if I suddenly…

Today there’s a Q&A with yrs truly at the web site of the fabulous Portland (Oregon) independent bookstore, Powell’s.

I’m going to be doing a virtual tour this month, in addition to a real-life one. We’ll begin our widespread celebration of Touchstone’s publication on Friday at The Rap Sheet. (http://therapsheet.blogspot.com) In fact, I’ll be posting there throughout the day, so if you have a subject you want me to talk about, here’s your chance.…

There’s a gorgeous review of Touchstone in January Magazine. (Thanks for the head’s up, Vicki). Some writers claim they don’t read reviews. Some of those I even believe. But I do, always, even the bad ones, because they are a part of the necessary dialogue between the writer and her readers. How else do I…

The first holidays Without Someone are tricky, with reminders of loss peppering the landscape. Who carves the turkey, if Granddad isn’t here? And Mom can step into Grandmother’s apron when it comes to making pumpkin pies, but what about Great Grandma’s Christmas Pudding? Should we bother with it? After all, nobody really likes it, but…

This time of year, sooner or later most of us are hit with The Glut. Generally it’s when we’re in a mall, with Christmas cheer being forced down our ears while people squabble over bargains, but you know the feeling. I have one solution: Give a gift that makes you feel good at the same…

My nephew, who clearly has too much time on his hands, asked me recently if the protagonist of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and other works classified as fiction got her name from Bertrand Russell, specifically Russell’s teapot hypothesis: Russell’s teapot, sometimes called the Celestial Teapot, was an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970),…

I received my first copy of Touchstone yesterday, and I have to say, it’s going to be a sad day when book go electronic. I won’t mind academia being crammed into the brains of an e-reader, thus saving the spines of generations of schoolkids, but the tactile pleasure of a new book is a joy…

Booklist has given Touchstone a star, a huge relief. And their description of the book is so juicy, it makes ME want to read it. “In England in 1926, New Yorker Harris Stuyvesant is tracking the bomber who blew up his sweetheart and permanently injured his brother. A sinister operative leads him to Bennett Grey,…