LAURIE ROCKENBECK
My personal and random blog
Why I Find Comfort in Crime Fiction
A few months ago I almost signed up for an "urban escape" training weekend. We're not talking getting out of the city and into the woods though. The course description is this: While on an international business trip you are kidnapped and held for ransom. or, a...
A new year, a new list…
What's on your list to read in 2016? I got a few fun books to read over the holidays, (see photo) and I still have a backlog from book-signing events and conferences. First up is "Purity" by Franzen. It was a birthday gift from my fabulous mother-in-law, and I...
Why your epic-fantasy-detective-Christian-erotic-romance is having a hard time being found….
I recently worked with a friend to co-edit and publish an anthology of erotic vampire stories. The collection includes some gay, some lesbian, some straight, some BDSM, and even one science fiction story. Given they are all about vampires, most of which suck blood or...
Deep breath, hit send. Fly baby, fly.
I might as well be standing outside naked--in a public park surrounded by people staring at me. That's how exposed I feel right now. Today is it. The day I send Bound to Die out into the world. Yes, a few people have read it, liked it, even. But, today is the day I...
Beta Time
People have been asking me questions that are some variant of "So, how's that book coming along?" or "When is your book coming out?" and "Didn't you win a contest or something?" and "Hasn't it been a while now?" It feels like FOREVER since I started Bound to Die for...
Cassoulet!
After my last post on making the duck confit, I kind of left things hanging. Sorry about that, but I was busy finishing a draft of my novel during the last few weeks. Said draft is out into the world, or at least in the hands of six lovely beta readers for now. I told...
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