Laurie R. King

Anchorage is just the most appealing town in the world. Not the most gorgeous, although its setting is pretty spectacular. And not the most sophisticated, or the most architecturally varied, but as personalities go, Anchorage has IT. Workaday and fun in equal parts, with an intriguing sense of wilderness all around it that is rare…

I take off for Anchorage this morning, for BoucherCon and friends–bags packed, Anchorage weather checked, To Do list down to the dregs. I’ll be posting during the conference, for everyone who has to stay Outside. See you from there.

As I said a while back, the last time I have to read Touchstone, and the last time I can do anything about Touchstone before it goes into print, is the proof page stage. These are the pages as they appear in the book itself, with decorations and page numbers, and it’s my last chance…

Well, this is just plain fun. Thanks to web maven Vicki V we now have t-shirts. And mugs and mouse pads and dog shirts and… http://www.cafepress.com/laurierking Thank you, Vicki!

My mother, peace be upon her, was a gardener. When she and my father retired and moved down to a house on the property my husband and I bought, the two acres of land around the old house filled her with joy. She shaped it, debated which kind of raspberries were better for our area,…

Back in the Dark Ages when I was a stay-at-home-Mom with a secret hobby (because really, the income generated by my writing was so far beneath minimum wage it couldn’t be considered a job) it was difficult to justify the hours spent at the task. I tended to sneak away and scribble as a slightly…

I wrote TO PLAY THE FOOL beginning in the winter of 1994. In January of 1995, when my husband was off in China, my mother fell and broke both her wrists. For five weeks and three days (but who’s counting?) she had plaster from fingertip to armpit, and could do nothing for herself. If she…

This from the blog of friend, beloved writer, and BoucherCon 2007 Great High Panjandrum, Dana Stabenow: I can’t imagine anyone who enjoys reading who wouldn’t want to come to Bouchercon in Anchorage this year. I’ve blogged about it on the website, including for the bouchercon virgin where I walk you through just one day of…

Yeee-haw! Whoop-de-do and hot-diddley-damn. I sent the copyedit back yesterday, making the deadline in spite of–well, of course there were problems, this book has had nothing but problems. And despite it all, I like the book. I love the book, the characters, the setting(s), the story lines, the way it all turned out. The copyedit…

I appreciate all the help with the Cornish dialect. I’d like to say thanks in the book to:Annie, Carlina, Corgimom, Dave, Kerry, and Phil the Badger for their help with the Cornish tongue. That okay with you guys? Let me know if you’d rather I use another name for you.