Laurie R. King

TOUCHSTONE is scheduled for a January 2008 pub date, which means it goes on sale December 26. So you can ask Santa for a book store gift certificate, and spend Boxing Day deep in the 1920s: It’s eight years after the Great War shattered Bennett Grey’s life, leaving him with an excruciating sensitivity to the…

The following is taken from a posting of Shannon Clarkson concerning the death of her partner, Letty Russell (it’s taken from the blog of PhD student Judy Redman): Letty Mandeville Russell, one of the world’s foremost feminist theologians and longtime member of the Yale Divinity School faculty, died Thursday, July 12 at her home in…

Once upon a time, a woman with two small children sat down and wrote the words, “I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him.” She eventually finished the book, and called it The Beekeeper’s…

The post the other day got me thinking about food. Then again, this time of year it’s hard not to think about food, as in our Mediterranean climate the cornucopia opens in June and keeps on flowing until the first frost in October. A drive to the Freedom post office to pick up my mail…

In following the discussion of THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE over in the Virtual Book Club, it has struck me that negativity can be the paprika enlivening your mashed potatoes. In a forum dedicated to one author’s work, especially when the participants know said author is lurking (LuRKing?) somewhere in the background, it’s not too likely that…

Peter Temple’s THE BROKEN SHORE just won the gold dagger from the CWA, and deservedly. I happen to like writing with the occasional bit I can turn over in my mouth and savor. (Happen to write that way too, oddly enough.) Not too many of them, mind, and there’s nothing more irritating than fancy writing,…

A while back I was going through the checkout line in the grocery store (Yes, we Big Time Authors do our own shopping. We also stand in line in the post office, when we can’t bully someone else into doing it, clean the toilet before the cleaning lady comes, and change our own smoke alarm…

I’d like to open up the blog for Q&A, it being the first of the month (well, the 4th, but in fact, tomorrow’s the 1st for most offices out there) however, I’m already Q&A’ing over at the Virtual Book Club. This month, can we try having you post any questions over there? If you really…

The gates are open over at the LRK Virtual Book Club for The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, when readers around the world can focus in on such age-old conundra as “Is there some meaning to the name Mary Todd?” and “Why does Holmes use two colors to mark the bees?” and even “Would an overdose of turmeric…

If you want to know what LRK wishes she was doing today (well, maybe not the arriving-at-Heathrow part) take a look at my guest blog at the Lady Killers blog.