Greg, my editor at HoZ, asked me to write a letter to enclose with the advance reading copies of The Harvey Girl. Here you go, I said. Hi! I’m Dana Stabenow, author of forty-ish novels so you’d think I’d done enough to be going on with but nooooo, as in I just wrote the first…
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Narrated by your favorite narrator and mine, the one and only Marguerite Gavin! Launching from the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona,at 4pm on February 28th. in e onKindle.USandKindle.UK
Here endeth Tanya Huff’s Torin Kerr series (5 books beginning with Valor’s Choice and continuing with her Peacekeeper trilogy, this one are being the last one (if you’ve read the books you’ll see what I did there). I envy you if you haven’t yet read them because you’re in for a real treat—these books are…
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A Little Freeze Library in Petoskey, Michigan. (h/t Laughing Squid) “You’ve heard of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault – did you know Chile has one too?In the Atacama Desert, one of the world’s driest regions, the Initihuasi Seed Bank is freezing thousands of native plant species to safeguard them against climate change, extinction and disaster.…
This is how research works for writers. Pay attention, writers. (Literally and figuratively.) In preparation for writing The Harvey Girl, I read a bunch of books to do with Gilded Age America and the American Southwest in the 1890s, which must perforce include reading about Mexico during that same time. One very useful book was…
The final draft of the map for The Harvey Girl! Courtesy of Cartographers Extraordinaire (yes, that is their official title) Cherie and Thom Northon at mapmakers.com. You will have seen their website on all of the maps in all my books from the Kate Shugak series on. This long-term professional relationship came about by way…
The New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe had a small but choice Fred Harvey exhibit in October 2024, which is where I saw this portrait of Fred Harvey. Since the portrait was painted in 1890, I used it to inspire the way I wrote him in The Harvey Girl. Signed first edition hardcovers available…
My editor had me write a letter to be included with the advanced reading copies he was sending out, and Emily (aka She Who Must Be Obeyed at Bloomsbury Marketing) rewarded the sweat of my fevered brow by gussying it up. Check it out. The obverse: And the reverse: Not too shabby, eh? (channelling my…
Ruth, Dora, Alyce and Hank, four teens in Fairbanks and Southeast Alaska in 1965, are each stumbling through the aftermath of the loss of a parent or parents through death or divorce or negligence. The story is told in their alternating viewpoints, and the thing I liked most was the wealth of detail that comes…
