The Mighty Random Number Generator (ten scraps of paper on the table in front of me) has come up with the four winners of the UK hardback for Touchstone. Congratulations to: Linda Barnett Adventure_Chick Krista Barbara Markusik If you four would like to send your mailing addresses to me at info@laurierking.com I’ll get your signed…
Read More[Giveaway closed now, thanks for reading!] To celebrate the publication of The Bones of Paris in six weeks, we are doing three giveaways. Today is the first. I have four copies of the previous Stuyvesant & Grey adventure, Touchstone, in the UK hardback edition published by Poisoned Pen Press some years ago. They’re signed, they’re…
Read MoreIt’s Paris, 1929. Hemingway, Dali, Man Ray, and the ever-thirsty Kiki of Montparnasse sit around a table on the Dome Cafe terrace, discussing a project for the enigmatic and vastly wealthy Comte de Charmentier. The Count wants a Danse Macabre for his walls, showing Death’s dance with all of humanity: kings and jazz musicians, Flappers…
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Read MoreOne of the things we expect in fiction is that it gives us a different view of the world: another climate, a different culture, an alternate view of bravery, responsibility, ethics. One of the daily miracles of modern life is the flowering of all kinds of different views: the earth from distant space, the immensely…
Read MoreOkay, my life as a writer is now officially cool. A lovely woman by the name of Winn Goll is wearing Russell and Holmes on her skin. Or at any rate, versions of Russell and Holmes—feline versions: These fabulous (and no doubt painful) tattoos (yes, the needle kind) were done by Greg Whitehead at Scapegoat…
Read MoreMy buddy Rick Kleffel has posted his podcasts of the Higher Mysteries panel, in which four top-ranking crime writers talk about using religion and theology in their work, on his web site, The Agony Column: “You’re all here for Tax Law 101, right?” —Laurie R. King For all the seriousness of her premise, Laurie R.…
Read MoreA book is a complex blend of the author’s intentions. Some of them are on the surface: shaping an exciting plot; exploring the lives of the characters; bringing to light a place the writer knows and loves. Other elements of a novel are less obvious. Themes of relationship and responsibility are woven in. Trauma and…
Read MoreThe Art of Detection is the book that links Inspector Kate Martinelli of the SFPD with the oddity that is the world of Sherlock Holmes. It’s what happens when an editor wistfully reflects aloud that she would love to see what a meeting of Kate and Mary Russell would look like, which causes a wicked…
Read MoreThe Bones of Paris finds one-time Bureau of Investigation agent Harris Stuyvesant plunging into the tempestuous 1929 Montparnasse community of American writers, artists, and hangers-on. Paris in the Twenties is a visual feast, from the street scenes to the artists’ ateliers. That’s why I’ve begun a pair of Pinterest pages where I can pour all…
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