Exotic Settings

(Added note:for a few days, Dreaming Spies will be $2.99 on Nook and Kindle. in the US.) I always find it interesting to look back at a book I’ve written and reflect on what it turned out to be about, and how it fits into the rest of the series. While I’m actually writing the things,…

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Laurie King, poet: slightly above the others

The kind of books I write are always a compromise. If I did the kind of research I feel they deserve, a novel would take me three, four, six years and stretch to eight hundred pages. This invariably leaves me with a dozen areas where I’m spreading a small amount of research very thin, and…

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Community conversations

For a chance to hear about the new stories, before anyone (well, anyone but my editor…) read on… I started my college life at a California junior college called West Valley, located near my home in Saratoga. I had no money, no job, and no idea of what I wanted to do–which made community college…

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Me & Edgar & Agatha & friends

That shriek that rattled the country just before 10:00 pm EST was me reacting to the sound of my name from the podium at the Agatha Awards: Malice Domestic’s choice of Best Historical Mystery is Dreaming Spies, by Laurie R. King! I was nominated for an Agatha once before (for The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, in 1995) and…

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Against violence

I’m involved with a fundraiser and program to help stop violence against women. First, there’s a Russell Basket. This includes a signed hardback of The Murder of Mary Russell, a copy of Dreaming Spies, and one of the gorgeous big Dreaming Haiku posters, all in a handsome Random House book bag.  They’re requesting a $75 donation,…

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Agatha and me

The list of nominees for this year’s Agatha awards is now up on the Malice Domestic web site. Malice, which takes place in Bethesda the first weekend in May, celebrates “the traditional mystery,” and Dreaming Spies is one of the attendees’ top choices for “Best Historical Mystery.”  This is a great honor–I mean, just look…

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Fun Times with Laurie!

Every so often we add Fun Stuff to the web site. Such as a one-page Russell & Holmes colo(u)ring book (click to link) with scenes from the Memoirs: Or panels for the ongoing Russellscape:     Well, here’s a new project to madden you: The Dreaming Spies origami balloon. To go along with the book discussion guide…

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Ten winners!

Congratulations, winners! We drew ten names last week for the new paperback of Dreaming Spies– and they’re headed for the post office today! Congratulations to: Russa, Jane, Norma, Marilyn, Nancy, Laurie, Libby, Seth, Verity, and Diane! And if your name isn’t here, but you’d like a signed or inscribed copy of the paperback anyway, I’ll be heading down to Bookshop Santa Cruz this week…

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Happy Paperback!

The Dreaming Spies paperback comes out today, which makes for a good excuse to give you a pretty card. I took the photo in the moss garden in Kyoto, at precisely the time of year that Russell & Holmes were in Japan. (Not, I should note, a thing that always happens, and a hazard if…

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A Dreaming e-card

I hope you’re having fun with these e-cards? This one is another product from Team LRK: words from the book, image from my camera, design by Bob & the Random House art department.  For your sharing pleasure, in celebration of the upcoming paperback of Dreaming Spies.

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