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the official home page for author lori l lake www lorillake com golden crown literary society opus literary alliance alice b awards portland lesbian writers group literary lesbians present usa today book award winner lesbian romance lesbian novels lesbian erotica lesbian mystery lesbian short story lesbian fiction loft literary center writing craft and technique gun shy under the gun have gun we ll travel jump the gun the gun series the public eye mystery series buyer s remorse a very public eye snow moon rising the milk of human kindness lesbian authors write about mothers and daughters shimmer and other stories stepping out short stories like lovers do eight dates lesbians on the loose crime writers on the lam different dress eight dates gcls oregon writers colony mystery writers of america sisters in crime sparking creativity lesbians on the loose times rainbow writing ourselves back into american history lambda literary lammies stonewall awards goldie awards lee lynch ann bannon karin kallmaker carin werlinger georgia beers radclyffe kg macgregor katherine forrest jessie chandler ke lane re bradshaw mystery writing ellen hart jm redmann rita potter ej noyes o home lori s writings about lori articles press media contact teaching resources photos writing retreat newsletter awards weekly quotation may 17 24 2026 may is national crime fiction reading month xx i think people like puzzles the element of mystery is what keeps us reading any book but when you give it center stage i think you get a real leg up in grabbing a reader s attention mysteries are entertaining but a good mystery goes further in exploring moral questions that s why i love fiction it helps us explore what it is to be human and also in the mystery novel you come upon a world in chaos but you know that by the end of the novel you ll find a solution in that sense i think you can call them contemporary morality plays you may not move from sadness to happiness but you do find resolution and that s comforting in our normal everyday lives we don t get much resolution mysteries give us what cnn can t ellen hart 1949 crime fiction writing instructor short story and essay writer the first openly queer author named a grandmaster for the mystery writers of america and award winning mystery author of the jane lawless mystery series xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx what s new xxx xxx the 2026 alice b awards are announced please congratulate these talented 2026 authors nancy manahan x rita potter x bev prescott x kim pritekel for for information about the alice b awards click here 3 10 26 fantastic article by mico sorrel mico sorrel after cutting off long hair at age 26 my new friend mico has a terrific memoir piece in the friends journal this month with a few changes in details mico s story could be my own story of growing up in the 60s with negative societal attitudes and pressures unlike what we queer people experience these days i wish i could have read this piece many years ago for an insightful take on growing up somewhere outside the gender norms click here and read mico s piece are you a girl or a boy 3 1 26 february 14th literary lesbians present l r lori l lake jazzy mitchell ej kindred sandra de helen tairi blair mary mandeville and linda vogt who also served as the emcee on valentine s day seven authors came together at taborspace in portland oregon to read from their work so much variety we featured poetry memoir mysteries nonfiction new novels old novels and a lot of laughs we had a fantastic time and over sixty people came out to cheer us on and win raffle prizes books of course we will have another event in a few months because this was really a lot of fun and people seemed to enjoy themselves let me know if you want to be on the list to get notice of our next reading book fair 2 14 26 it s the 25th anniversary of my website it s hard to believe that 25 years have passed since my websister helped me with my first website many elements she helped me create still work this site came about not long after my first books were published i ve spent half my life now working on writing skills learning about publishing and producing new work for those wondering if i am ever going to publish a new novel yes i m soooo close you ll be the first to know the pub date 2 1 26 teri and lori last year i met teri who is writing as tairi blair at the left coast lesbian conference lclc in oakhurst ca we were immediately drawn together and our relationship has grown to the point where she moved up to portland in march and we re settling into a house together i haven t been this happy and content for sooooo long she has a great sense of humor and she s wicked smart plus she puts up with my goofy hijinks here s hoping we have another 25 or 30 years together 10 4 25 another new writing article posted in the article section i wrote a piece about adding subplots to novels and just made it available in the articles archive list of all articles here click here to read the new article weaving subplots into a novel five and half years down the drain down the covid drain that is i managed to make it all this time and never got the plague and i suddenly came down with it earlier in july really sucked too i didn t get to go to gcls in ny total bummer for the last week plus the things in the picture below have been my close friends 7 18 2025 a new writing article posted in the article section i wrote a piece about finishing novels a few years back and i reformatted it to make it available in my articles archive list of all articles here click here to read the new article how do i finish my novel and the world is still being strange and crazy we had an unusually vicious snow and ice storm two weeks ago and down came the best shade tree in the neighborhood here is the view of my house around 10pm about thirty minutes after the tree fell we heard an enormous crash thud and the whole house shook it took a bit of time to gather up warm outdoor clothes and manage to slip and slide out the garage door and into the yard the ice was treacherous i can t believe neither of us fell the tree was definitely very up close and personal but unbelievably no windows were broken the tree smacked down on the deck crushed the corner of the roof that juts out over the stairwell to the lower level bent the fence which you can t see in either picture took out the gutter along half of the back of the house and smushed the soffit though so far crossing fingers it s not leaking big expensive mess i have a 1 500 deductible on the ol homeowners insurance ouch sure hope i get a reeeeeeally big tax return author q a with natty burns and lori l lake gosh i forgot to post this previously whoops i got a chance to read from my upcoming novel adventures unlimited again and natty burns read from her horror sheriff love story the rustle of leaves and then we talked books writing naming tactics creating plot lines and a lightning round of do you prefer this was so much fun nat is a hoot and our interviewer jazzy mitchell poked a lot of fun at us you can listen to us here interview link a little bit of ancestry genealogy i dipped my toe into the pond of dna and genealogy and fell in headfirst all the way to the bottom of the ocean i found a whole lot of stuff about my forbears because i descend from sir jerome weston 1550 1603 who was a knight of the realm high sheriff of essex and judge of common pleas it turns out elizabeth ii former queen of england is my 11th cousin once removed whoa who knew i have known for years that aviation s darlings the wright brothers were my first cousins 4x removed but who knew that lucille ball is my 10th cousin rosa parks is my 12th cousin 1xremoved and babe ruth is my 10th cousin 3x removed a visionary a fighter and a slugger alas shakespeare does not fall into the equation but charles dickens is 8th cousin 6x removed and jane austen is 9th cousin 5x removed i couldn t find out about virginia woolf but she was so depressed and killed herself so although her writing was amazing she is not a very good example for me susan b anthony is 6th cousin 5x removed john wayne is 10th 1x muhammad ali is 9th 1x and elvis 8th 1x even abraham lincoln is in my bloodline 6th cousin 5x removed and george washington no wonder i have bad teeth is a 2nd cousin 10x removed how fascinating to learn i have common ancestors with so many people who made history and following along with the fact that my dna shows no asian native american or any american blood it s fascinating that some of my ancestors brought important black figures into this world and i am tangentially related to them wow mind blown officially 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 lee lynch talks with me in the advocate on lesbian mystery police raids and fairy godmothers a few years back i had the great honor of doing an advocate conversation with award winning gcls trailblazer lee lynch click here to check it out number of website visitors since 2002 free hit counter don t miss these pages lori s articles publisher resources hall of fame this site last updated on may 18 2026 2001 present all contents of this web site are protected by u s and international copyright laws and may not be reproduced in any manner except in reviews and encyclopedia entries without the written consent of the author please contact lorillake at comcast dot net with questions xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx news xxx xxx please subscribe to my periodic newsletter click here for lori s newsletter lori s books for excerpts click on title time s rainbow writing ourselves back into american history lesbians on the loose crime writers on the lam eight dates jump the gu n buyer s remorse book one in series a very public eye book two in series like lovers do shimmer other stories snow moon rising have gun we ll travel the milk of human kindness stepping out other stories different dress under the gun gun shy ricochet in time x movie trailers for the books with brenda adcock s wizardry there are now movie trailers complete with music for two of my books click below to see make sure you turn on your speakers too shimmer other stories snow moon rising bound printed book s my novels and short story collections can be purchased through any bookseller or online if a store doesn t happen to have copies on hand they will order them for you click here if you want to contact me to get autographed copies e books at bella distribution the team at bella carry books by an enormous variety of authors and they re distributing my ebooks and print books click here to get the books in mobi and epub formats kobo e books kobo ebooks also carries lgbt books by a variety of authors click here to get my books for the kobo ereader kindle e books amazon com carries my books in the kindle e book format click here to purchase novels and short story collections for your kindle ereader b n e books barnes noble bn com carries my books in their nook e book format click here to purchase novels and short story collections for your nook ereader click the image below to friend me on facebook recent interviews a j llewellyn at dark diva s blog did an extensive interview with me click here to find out all my deep dark secrets the interview shows up on the march 4 entry and you will have to scroll down through a couple other interviews to get to it video interview with jody seay the amazing interviewer at oregon pbs s back page program who sat down and talked to me for her weekly tv program with pacific nw writers click here for the interview with author jae who has written so many wonderful novels click here to read an interesting discussion in the spotlight interview section that the gals at ylva have been doing astrid ohletz is a terrific interviewer earl kemp s online zine ei has featured a memoir piece i wrote called there is no reason not to trust that the act of writing will be enough click here if you d like to read it mysterical e featured a long interview with me about writing creativity book themes etc there are several great stories featured in this issue as well as other podcasts and interviews by a variety of terrific authors click here to subscribe to lori s newsletter lori s active memberships and causes to support x