Flare-up of tendinitis/RSI means I have to abandon all discretionary computer use. And, alas, this counts.
Don’t worry about me and — please! — no e-mails. I know what to do and I’m doing it.
Hiatus
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Heal quickly! We need your flashing fingers back!
sorry to hear that is the case. ice, ice, baby. rest up & recover thoroughly. enjoy the upside of the untethered life. /karen
Bummer! But, Laura I’m following your example and for every book I download to either the Kindle or the E-book Reader I buy one at Murder by the Book in Denver or Once Upon A Crime in Minneapolis.
Rest up and take care.
I hope that you recover soon! Take care and I am certain that we can all endure your hiatus patiently. I just reread Hardly Knew Her the other night. Perhaps I will revisit Life Sentences or Another Thing to Fall.
Get well!
Ok, no e-mails…but I hope it clears soon. Hiatus, schmiatus, that shit HURTS.
However, perhaps if computer use is limited for awhile, the upside is more time to read!
The new issue of Newsweek has an article called “Death Becomes Them” about crime fiction. In it the author (Malcolm Jones) mentions Laura Lippman among the top crime fiction writers of our time, ranking her and the others up with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, among others!
Go Laura.
Laura, I am sure it is particularly hard for someone like you who is both a writer at a keyboard for hours at a time and as an athlete (all those puch-ups!).
Have you ever tried voice recognition software? Perhaps it could be of some assistance to you.
Heal quickly and come back when you can.
–Marjorie
Heal thyself. We’ll miss you.
Laura’s essay on contemplating the future of Tess appears in Thursday’s Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/08/12/ST2009081202447.html
Sarah – thanks for the link! I clicked over to it, and was immediately distressed to read the WaPo header: “Knowing When to Say When” with the sub-head
“In which a writer of crime novels contemplates killing her ace PI.”
I actually exclaimed “What??!!”
But of course the essay is excellent, and I was reassured of LL’s unmistakeable good sense, when I arrived at this passage:
“Ultimately, the relationship between a writer and series character is personal, not unlike a marriage, and perhaps it would be wise for others to refrain from comment. I will write about Tess — or not write about Tess — as I see fit. Those books will be published — or not published — according to market vagaries outside my control.”
See – I like how she frames the question as whether she will “write about Tess — or not write about Tess — as I see fit.”
The “kill off” senasationalism from the headline writer sounds like the sort of bizarro blather one sees reported from congressional Town Hall shout-fests, these days!