Posts Tagged ‘Contests’
We Love Libraries!
Happy National Library Week! I had an impressive tour of the Santa Cruz library last week, from check-in to donations collection. I’ve also had a haul of books from the university library, building blocks for the story I’m working on. Both reminded me how much I love and depend on libraries. Don’t go to your…
Read MorePeripheral prizes
Want to know more about The God of the Hive? Like, how on earth a person like Robert Goodman came to be? You have a chance to win “Birth of a Green Man,” the illustrated short story about a key moment in Goodman’s history, by sending me the receipt for the book purchased from an…
Read MoreDoing good & doing well
Q: What do these names have in common: Glen Miranker, David Scheiman, Richard Sosa, Chris Williams, and Alice Wright? A: Each of these good folk has a doppelganger in the fiction of one Laurie R. King. About once a book, I donate a character name to one charity or another. This year, the charity is…
Read MoreWhew—twenty weeks!
Back in December, we opened up a new and beautiful web site, and kicked off the Twenty Weeks of Buzz, to celebrate and speculate about my books. I chose the number because The God of the Hive would be my twentieth novel, and I wanted to write a brief essay about each book. I also…
Read MorePenultimate week
Here are the new covers for the three backlist paperbacks, gorgeous things all (click image to enlarge): And now that you’ve had a week to read (and perhaps reread?) The God of the Hive, you can download a brand new official LRK reading guide on the Reading Guide page. (Careful, there are spoilers.) Make sure…
Read MoreOh Lord, stuck in Lisboa again…(or, still.)
Week seventeen of our Twenty Weeks of Buzz finds me in Lisbon, for rather longer than I had intended. You see, there’s this volcano in Iceland that decided to erupt and cover northern Europe with the kind of ash that makes airplanes cough and fall out of the sky like flies hit with bug spray,…
Read MoreFantasy Library contest
As I said yesterday, this was no easy contest to judge. I hope you’ve looked at my top ten submissions, which I chose in part with an eye to having some of each kind. (The only things we didn’t get were audio or video submissions. Or baked goods, none of those so far have arrived.) …
Read MoreNational Library Fantasies
Mary Russell’s Wednesday post is over on her MySpace page — and that episode of “A Case in Correspondence” in its original form will appear here on Friday. ** Oh, I’ve had such fun looking at the submissions for the Fantasy Library contest—you people are great! The only problem is, after setting the contest under way, I now…
Read MoreLove your library!
Happy National Library Week—kiss a librarian today. Or maybe take her or him a batch of nutritious muffins, or a shiny apple, or just a thank-you card. We love libraries! And this being Library Week, the Twenty Weeks of Buzz contest for “My Fantasy Library” is now closed. I’m going through the entries (Wow, what…
Read MoreTemples of book worship
If you visit, or subscribe to, this blog, you love books. And if you’re anything like me, you caught your bibliophilia from a library, most likely the one in your home town. Here was mine, in Santa Cruz, California, a building I visited at least once a week when we lived there in the early…
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