Blog alert!

[jtb1951]

FYI, LRK has a new posting today concerning the progress of her re-write for TOUCHSTONE; it's sounding more promising all the time, can't wait!! :)

John.

[vicki]

It does sound like a very intricate and intriguing story, doesn't it? I want it!

I'll content myself with picking a few things from the Beloved Bookshelf thread as my upcoming reads--so many of the recommendations there have really piqued my interest.

[Christina]

I love hearing about the process and I am so grateful that LRK takes such time to preserve a reasonable degree accuracy. I drives me wild when I know a little something about a subject, and I am reading along in a book that intersects with that subject, and they get it ALL WRONG! Ruins the book for me, at least to the degree that the wrongness of the subject impacts the rest of the story. For instance the CJ Box book Trophy Hunt, where the entire story turns on severed mineral rights in the chain of title of a ranch in Wyoming, but the description of the real property records in the County Clerk’s offices and most of the rest of the information about how and where one would research such things or what one would find when researching such things, as well as the knowledge, attitude and level of ignorance of the staff of the County Clerk’s office (not to mention that of the local ranchers as to their own property title) is TOTALLY WRONG! Consequently, I doubt I will ever read another Box book because I will never be able to trust that what I don't know quite as much about is accurate.

Yea! to LRK for her work ethic, research and attention to detail. I will gratefully content myself with other authors and genres until she can produce yet another one of her masterpieces.

[jtb1951]

Yea! to LRK for her work ethic, research and attention to detail.

Amen to that! As a naturally analytical individual it raises my dander when an author is apparently ignorant of key geographical, historical, political, social, etc. facts and figures important to their storyline; to me it is a symptom of sloppy thinking and a disregard for the reader. It's one thing to use auctorial license in genres where inventiveness is integral; fantasy fiction, for example; but I find it just careless when applied to realistic fiction, and of course, unacceptable in non-fiction (sorry for the run-on sentence; you can tell that I'm not a writer!) ;)
LRK passes muster with flying colors imho!

John.