Best-selling author Laurie R. King will be at Mesquite Library this weekend to promote her latest novel. Touchstone, set in England during the General Strike of 1926, allowed King to explore terrorism in a historical setting.
King, who last visited the Valley in 2006, anticipates that fans of the Kate Martinelli series, or the historical mysteries [...]

Right to the end, that movie stalked him. When British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke died last Tuesday at the age of 90, it was the finale of a career that saw the publication of scores of entertaining books and the conception of at least one idea (communication satellites, which he thought up in 1945) [...]

In 1988, a little-known writer called Orhan Pamuk was struggling to complete The Black Book, his fourth and most ambitious novel to date. “As the writing progressed”, Pamuk remembers in Other Colours, his new collection of essays and stories, “and the book grew broader, the pleasure of writing it grew deeper.” This was small consolation, [...]

Best-selling author Laurie R. King will be at Mesquite Library this weekend to promote her latest novel. Touchstone, set in England during the General Strike of 1926, allowed King to explore terrorism in a historical setting.
King, who last visited the Valley in 2006, anticipates that fans of the Kate Martinelli series, or the historical mysteries [...]

When Ken Blaisdell was young, English was one of his worst subjects. Today, the 55-year-old Gilbert man is promoting his first published novel.
“I never really said, ‘Someday, I’m gonna write the Great American Novel,’” Blaisdell said. “It really didn’t occur to me.”
Yet years of writing short stories for fun eventually led to a 408-page [...]

When Ken Blaisdell was young, English was one of his worst subjects. Today, the 55-year-old Gilbert man is promoting his first published novel.
“I never really said, ‘Someday, I’m gonna write the Great American Novel,’” Blaisdell said. “It really didn’t occur to me.”
Yet years of writing short stories for fun eventually led to a 408-page [...]

Best-selling author Laurie R. King will be at Mesquite Library this weekend to promote her latest novel. Touchstone, set in England during the General Strike of 1926, allowed King to explore terrorism in a historical setting.
King, who last visited the Valley in 2006, anticipates that fans of the Kate Martinelli series, or the historical mysteries [...]

When Ken Blaisdell was young, English was one of his worst subjects. Today, the 55-year-old Gilbert man is promoting his first published novel.
“I never really said, ‘Someday, I’m gonna write the Great American Novel,’” Blaisdell said. “It really didn’t occur to me.”
Yet years of writing short stories for fun eventually led to a 408-page [...]

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