[reposted from February 11, 2008] I was interviewed about Prepared for Rage this morning by a very nice woman named Diana from Westwood One. Diana asked me a question I’ve been thinking about off and on all day: What did I want the reader to take from the book, what did I want the book to accomplish? I…
Excerpt… October 22, 2004Slime Banks, north of the Alaska Peninsula “I say we use him to troll for orcas.” “That’s a little harsh, PO, don’t you think?” Sara said, trying not to laugh. “Already tasked anyway,” Chief Mark Edelen said from the conn. “Tasked how?” PO Barnette said, raising one skeptical eyebrow. Or so Sara…
Read more “They duct taped his bunk shut, poked a hole in it, and sprayed it full of Right Guard.”
Excerpt… Arlene settled herself in the chair across from his desk. “Thanks for seeing me without an appointment.” “Anytime, Arlene, you know that.” He smiled at her. Bad mood or not, he was always very nice to Arlene. A plump, comfortably sized blonde in jeans and blazer over a white turtleneck, she looked like someone’s…
Excerpt… Langley, VirginiaOctober 19, 2004 Hugh’s temper was not improved by the sight of his overflowing mailbox or by the stack of message slips held down on his desk by the soapstone bear paperweight. The bear had been a gift from Sara the last Christmas they were in high school together. He looked at it,…
excerpt… The Chinese saw the waiter looking and returned a flat, unblinking stare. There was something reptilian in that stare, without fear or feeling. For all his experience and sangfroid, the waiter had to make a conscious effort not to take a step back. He had to clear his throat before he could summon enough…
Excerpt… October 5, 2004Pattaya Beach, Thailand Much later, when the glass had stopped flying and the screams of pain and fear had died to moans and whimpers and the hoarse rattles of death, when the bodies had been taken to the morgue and the injured to the hospitals, when the television cameras had gone and…
Read more The world waited for someone to take responsibility for the bomb.
On the importance of setting. Can’t remember who I wrote this for. The US Coast Guard invited me to do a ridealong on cutter Alex Haley in the Bering Sea in February of 2004. I was invited to write a daily blog from the ship so the shorebound families of the crew could eyewitness as…
[from the stabenow.com archives, February 10, 2008, with present-day commentary also in bold] Okaaaaay, five days after publication of Prepared for Rage, I have received the first email wanting to know when the next Kate novel will be out. Laurie King and I were talking about this yesterday. We’re pleased and flattered that you “Just…
[for the Poisoned Pen Conference at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, July 13, 2012] Sometimes research is easy. When I lived in Anchorage my house was right under the traffic pattern to the seaplane base of Lake Hood. One day my father was helping me with something in my back yard and a Cessna 206…
In honor of the June 1st publication of Silk and Song in trade paperback, here’s a post from the Silk and Song blog tour in January. Between Two Continents with Dana Stabenow From James Joyce’s Dublin to Bram Stoker’s Transylvania, readers everywhere have traveled to regions far and wide. All from the comforts of their…
