From Bad Blood, the twentieth Kate Shugak novel: It was a beautiful morning, clear and cool. Mist smoked up from the surface of the water, broken temporarily by the bow of the skiff moving upriver, closing in again behind its stern. Night, in summer only a suggestion of twilight between midnight and two a.m., gave…
Warning: Spoilers spoken here. Upon returning home from New York City in 1994, clutching A Cold Day for Murder‘s Edgar in a sweaty fist, almost the very first thing to appear in my mailbox was a letter from Tony Hillerman, requesting a short story for the collection he was editing, The Mysterious West (now included…
Booklist Issue: June 1, 2013 Bad Blood. Stabenow, Dana (Author) and Gavin, Marguerite (Reader) Feb 2013. Macmillan, CD, $29.99. (9781427229144). In this twentieth Kate Shugak mystery, part-time private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Jim Chopin find themselves in the middle of a feud between neighboring Alaska villages while trying to solve the murder…
Sunday before last, April 7th, thanks to Kate Shugak being the Kindle Daily Deal, this is what the Amazon.UK e-bestseller lists looked like: Kate was holding down #1, #4 and #5 on the paid list and #5 on the free list. Thank you, Amazon.UK, and thank you, UK readers!
I’m home now, after a series of blowout events for Bad Blood in Scottsdale, Tempe, Cave Creek, Prescott, Denver, Portland, Mesa, Tucson and Palmer, Alaska. I heard this question almost everywhere I went, at bookstores, libraries, the ASU writers conference, the Tucson book festival: How would I rather you read my novels, in print or…
Read more I’ll always be there for you in e. I’d like to always be there for you in print, too.
Here it is, in Sunday’s print edition of the New York Times: The asterisk means I’m tied for 13, with no less than George R.R. Martin. Listen hard, and you can hear my editor chanting, “Printed list! Printed list!” Again, this would not have happened without you, the people who bellied up to the bookstore…
*The asterisk means that Bad Blood is tied for 13. With George R.R. Martin, no less. For all those who bellied up to the bookstore counter and plunked down your hard-earned cash not only for Bad Blood but for all twenty books in the Kate Shugak series: You made this happen, and this blog post…
Read more Bad Blood is #14 on this week’s NYT bestseller list!
I posted to the Danamaniacs page yesterday morning as follows: And to everyone who has already zoooooomed through Bad Blood: A) learn to read more slowly, please B) outrage, anguish, a prayer that I die a painful death, these are fine, but no spoilers, and C) take a breath. As I said last night (click…
Remember last Tuesday’s Audiobook Giveaway on Facebook? Where those amazingly generous people at Macmillan Audio gave give you the chance to win a bundle of Kate Shugak audiobooks? Can’t believe they included the new book in that, but they did. Without further ado, here’s the lucky five who won: Angelique Graham from Florence, Arizona Diana…
That would be one of these: Note: If you can’t see the form below, click here. Do these two things: Change your Facebook profile photo to the cover of Bad Blood (download it here) and fill out this form: FYI, this is where I put mine: It’s fun to see the doubletakes in airport lounges when…
