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January 25 - 31, 2014

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XXX"If you're a writer and if you allow your people to talk, they will express themselves in a way that the writer herself might not have thought of. I give an assignment to my students to create a character and have people talking to one another. They say, 'Well, we don't know these people,' and I say you have to listen. What you write in the first five minutes is just the beginning. If you stay with it for two hours and really work at it, at the end of those two hours you'll have something. But you won't know what it is in the beginning.
XXX A young writer thinks 'Why, I can't do that,' and sometimes they want to give up. A writer who has been writing for quite a while doesn't give up. Like, I know the first six weeks of writing a novel for me are like hell. I'm very unhappy and very frustrated and actually very miserable. But I keep on going.
XXX I think a lot of new writers, facing this first six weeks or so, when nothing seems to be coming together and you're so frustrated and you read over what you have and you don't like it. And you keep on reading it over and you don't like it, finally give up. I think a lot of people give up. But the writer who's the seasoned veteran - who's got all these obvious scars - the seasoned vet knows that the terrain is really rough in the beginning but stays with it."
~Joyce Carol Oates, author of dozens of novels, in a 2009 speech at California's Book Passage Bookstore.

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What's New

My GCLS Keynote Speech is Available

My Keynote Video is available now. CLICK HERE to view and listen.
Updated 1/24/15

Gun Series Review at the ALA

American Library Assoc. reviewer Sue Hardesty included my Gun books in a round-up of "Ten Mystery Romance Series with Lesbian Sleuths." I know some of the other authors as well, such as Lynn Ames, Jessie Chandler, Elizabeth Sims, Erica Abbot, Rose Beecham, and RE Bradshaw.

CLICK HERE to check it out!

Updated 12/12/14

EIGHT DATES won!
X Eight Dates won in the Romantic Comedy category at The Rainbow Awards. I am so delighted I can hardly speak! Thanks to Elisa Rolle and all the judges who read almost 600 books for the entire contest. The Runners-Up are: Out Of Retirement by Erica Lawson *That Certain Something* by Clare Ashton	CLICK HERE to see all the Winners and Runners-Up in all categories.
Updated 12/9/14

Why We Writers Write

Updated 11/8/14

Review for EIGHT DATES

Great review for EIGHT DATES at Lambda Literary - CLICK HERE to read it. I'm thrilled that that Anna Furtado, in part, wrote: "Telling a story in first person while keeping it fresh and exciting to the reader is a difficult task for any writer, but Lake accomplishes this undertaking masterfully—and does it with both style and wit. There are laugh-out-loud moments in this story as well as scenes filled with poignancy, honesty and tenderness. This offering by Lori Lake is quirky, funny, and refreshingly real."

Hurray for such a nice review!

Updated 11/2/14

The Romances!

Three of the four romances are on sale for Kindle right now.
CLICK HERE to check it out!

Updated 10/25/14

Review for EIGHT DATES

Check out the review for EIGHT DATES that Terry Baker did here. I'm glad that she found it funny and a "nicely written and well edited comedy/romance"!

Updated 9/2/14

Watch out for Lesbians on the Loose!

Just received the cover for the crime fiction anthology scheduled for a December 1 release date. We've got some GREAT contributors!

~Elizabeth Sims
~Katherine Forrest
~VK Powell
~Kate McLachlan
~Ellen Hart
~Jessie Chandler...
and many more!

Stay tuned for more information about the new anthology.

Updated 8/21/14

Women's Writing Retreat at the Oregon Coast in October

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I still have a couple of spaces open for the Autumn Women's Writing Retreat at Rockaway Beach, Oregon, in October.

Join other writers to read, write, revise, reflect, and spend time on the lovely and inspiring Oregon Coast. We've got a great week arranged!

CLICK HERE to read more about the Retreat!

Autumn Women's Writing Retreat
Rockaway Beach, Oregon
October 5 - 12, 2014 - Sunday to Sunday.

Updated 7/21/14

Eight Dates is Available!

ISBN:
978-1-63304-0007
e-ISBN:
978-1-63304-0014

Available July 1 online and at fine booksellers everywhere!

CLICK HERE for links to all the places you can buy the book online

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EIGHT DATES rolled off the press and started its journey out into the world on July 1st.
Hurray!

Updated 7/01/14

Are You One of the 1,000 True Fans?

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CLICK HERE
to read about the "1,000 True Fans" Concept?

Are you one of them?

Updated 4/18/14

Reading JUMP THE GUN at Lizzie's Bedtime Stories

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A while back, I was a guest on Liz McMullen's radio show. She's now posted the audio of me reading the first chapter from the Jump The Gun.

CLICK HERE to listen!

Updated 5/28/14

Audio Interview at Liz McMullen's Show

CLICK HERE to listen to the interview Liz McMullen did with me. I really enjoyed the format and the conversation with Liz. We ranged far and wide!

Updated 3/23/14

New Book of Stories about Anti-Bullying

I've got a story in Coming Together: For Equality, a collection of fiction with an anti-bullying theme edited by Beth Wylde. Proceeds benefit the Planting Peace-Equality House, a rainbow-colored house representing compassion, peace, and positive change where human rights and bully prevention initiatives are launched. CLICK HERE to read an excerpt!

Updated 3/16/14

Interview at AJ Adaire's Blog

AJ Adaire interviewed me recently. CLICK HERE to read about why I love Anamaria Marinca, how come my next book (Eight Dates) is a big departure for me, and why it took me fifteen years to be an "overnight success."

Updated 1/28/14

A Very Public Eye is a Rainbow Award Winner!

I just found out that my Leona Reese novel, A Very Public Eye, won the Rainbow Award in the Lesbian Mystery/Thriller category! Jump the Gun garnered a runner-up nod. CLICK HERE to see all the great books that won or were runners-up in Elisa Rolle's Rainbow Awards. (You will have to scroll down a bit past judge and publisher names.)

Updated 12/8/13

Review at Curve Magazine

The Bookgeek at Curve has done a bang-up review of Snow Moon Rising, my novel set during WWII.

CLICK HERE to read all about it!

Updated 12/1/13

One of my favorite people on the planet and a great mystery writer, Ellen Hart, with me at Once Upon a Crime Mystery Bookstore in Minneapolis

Updated 8/18/13

I finally got to meet Jean Auel!

At the annual Oregon Writers Colony Founders Day at Rockaway Beach's Colonyhouse, I served up a cup of coffee to a woman - and it turned out to be Jean Auel! Later I facilitated a fiction discussion group, and Jean joined in and was a wealth of information and humor. Woweeeee---what a day!

Updated 08/06/13

Lee Lynch talks with me in THE ADVOCATE on "Lesbian Mystery, Police Raids, and Fairy Godmothers"

I had the great honor of doing an Advocate conversation with award-winning GCLS Trailblazer Lee Lynch.

CLICK HERE to check it out!

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