Laurie R. King

Thinking of BoucherCon? Crime, music, friendship, good food, a fabulous setting (there should be a law requiring every city to have a mountain watching over it) and, well, me. If you’re thinking of coming to BoucherCon in Anchorage next month (and you should, really you should) and would like to have a meet-up with LRK…

An article from the Telegraph that was brought to my attention by Piper on the book club concerns Harry Patch, the last Tommy of the Great War. Harry Patch survived the bloodbath that was Passchendaele, three months of human sacrifice in the autumn of 1917 that left half a million British soldiers dead or wounded,…

Not to bug my Mutterings friends with other parts of the King e-universe, but I thought I’d mention for the artists among you that the Virtual Book Cub is hosting an art competition. If you have a rendering of Mary Russell you would like to share with the world, take a look at the competition…

Q: A veritable avalanche of requests came in for the polenta recipe I mentioned a while ago, despite the fact that it’s summer and sweltering all over. Maybe my Australian friends can cook it now, and the rest of you remember it come January. A: The short answer to the question of how I cook…

Q: Dee asks, A while back you posted an entry on the cover of Touchstone. I am curious as to what you think about the new editions of A Grave Talent nearly sharing the same cover as The Art of Detection. A: Publishers like to do a “brand look” on a series, to identify the…

It’s the first of the month, and although the Q&A is always open over at the Book Club, does anyone have something they’d like me to talk about here at Mutterings? Cathy–and anyone else who’s interested–the Book Club bulletin board for Q&A is at: http://laurierking-com.w01.merchbox.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=9

We’re starting discussion of Monstrous Regiment of Women over at the book club, for which I wrote an intro I thought I’d reproduce here: In 1558, the Protestant John Knox wrote a treatise condemning the preponderance of female rulers in England, calling it “The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.”…

My house in Oxford flooded this law week, along with most of England, and my family there was ready with inflatable dinghies, Wellington boots, and a cellar cleared of possessions. So I picked Dorothy Sayers’ The Nine Tailors off the shelf, since it had been a while since I re-read it. And I found that…

TOUCHSTONE is off to the gentle hands of my editor at Bantam, who will no doubt find further nudges and tweaks to perform before the manuscript goes to be typeset. But when she finishes her line edit, she will send it to the copy editor, not back to me, because the changes will be small.…

Roxanne commented on the cover, but what do the rest of you think? They were aiming at something non-genre, which I think just means it doesn’t have bullets or handcuffs on it. The image itself doesn’t tell you anything about the plot, but it does evoke a definite mood. I like the cover a lot,…