The History of Kate Shugak in 22 Objects – 3
WARNING: Spoilers spoken here.
Paperback reissue of Kates 1-3 today!
Thanks to Nic Cheetham and all the wonderful people at Aries Fiction, today sees the return of the first three Kate Shugak novels in paperback! [There is a buy link beneath each of the cover art images above. In case you were interested.] It’s been about twenty years since Kates 2-9 dematerialized from paperback existence.…
from the third Kate Shugak novel
Excerpt: The pot was seven feet tall and seven feet wide and three feet deep, a steel frame covered in metal netting, 750 pounds of dead weight empty. Kate was five feet tall, weighed just over 120 pounds and was mere flesh and bone, but she had Newton on her side, and she waited. She…
#thiswritinglife
One question every writer gets at every public event is what is our process, as in how do we write our books. For example, how many words do I write every day? I always answer in pages, lately five pages a day. I’m aware that that is an oblique answer, but there is a reason.…
She wondered why she had never noticed before how so many ballads were written on horseback.
From Dead in the Water, the third Kate Shugak novel: She wondered why she had never noticed before how so many ballads were written on horseback. The bat was coming down steadily now, in its own asymmetrical rhythm, batting out a tattoo of endurance, a measure of survival. When she got home, if she got…