Laurie R. King

I just wanted to alert you all to an upcoming event that should have you checking the flight schedules for the weekend: The Spirit of Watsonville parade on July 4th will feature the Bookettes, ten crack members of the Watsonville Public Library Book Cart Drill Team, as they circle and weave their way through drill…

All readers of LRK are winners in the sense of superior taste in anything to do with the printed word, but ten LRK readers now have something physical to show for their status of winnerdom: llm132506 Soaney Red Spider wpriest A Typical Sorority Girl spiston doc watson chewmama celticmusiclvr annmeeker The drawing for the Virtual…

If you’ve been visiting here during the past year, you’ll have watched the progress (sic?) of TOUCHSTONE, and wondered whether LRK will ever finish the damned book. The process of writing, or rather, of rewriting the book has been extraordinarily difficult, for a number of reasons, many of them out of my control—family matters take…

Laurie wins a Lambda! The 2007 Best Lesbian Mystery from the Lambda Literary Foundation, for The Art of Detection.

As Ms Russell mentioned in her Myspace blog, if you sign up by the 15th for the Virtual Book Club, your name will be in a drawing for one of ten copies of the shiny new paperback of The Art of Detection, signed by yrs truly.

What with one thing and another, I neglected to say that the blog Poe’s Deadly Daughters has an interview with yrs truly, although because of my tardiness, you’ll have to scroll down to June 7 to see it. Sorry, Liz!

We speak today of heroic acts. It is, after all, one of the reasons we read, and write, crime fiction, because there’s a hero, who makes us think, What if I..? A paradigm for behavior, a reinforcement of Right versus Wrong. I, too, might find it in me to be a hero. A party, filled…

Those of you who get the newsletter will know this, but for newcomers to the game, here it is. Sound the trumpets and draw back the drapes the latest creation in the Laurie King electronic universe: The Laurie R. King Virtual Book Club, or, LRK VBC. That’s right, a book club where readers don’t have…

Mary Jane Dickson was born May 21, 1922, in San Francisco, to two survivors of the 1906 earthquake and fire (the link shows a photo of Mary in her mother’s belly.) She grew up on the peninsula south of San Francisco, but after high school moved back to The City to work at The Emporium.…

Patience is not one of the stronger characteristics of the Internet universe. After all, aren’t blogs and web sites the very definition of ephemeral? So I have to thank you all for your patience with this remarkably slow process of getting a book club underway. The official announcement is coming out soon, certainly before the…