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February 19, 2026

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 of a fan comment Cherie left on stabenow.com, and then she sent me a photo of her holding Blindfold Game in front of an iceberg in Antarctica where she and Thom were on a cruise.

At some point I said, just making conversation, “What do you do, Cherie?”

And she said, “I’m a cartographer.”

I often say that books are the gifts that keep on giving.
You could say that about the writing profession, too.

Launching from the Poisoned Pen Bookstore at 4pm on February 28, 2026.

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