Being a sometime dive down the rabbit hole of the craft and business of writing. I wrote a piece about research rabbit holes a minute ago (in Internet time, anyway) when researching Abduction of a Slave (Isis4, publishing in January 2025), and it crystalized a realization that has been coming on slowly over, oh, say…
Spoiler free, so fear not. Jessikah was fun to talk to, but then, she’s a librarian, so what else would you expect? Click here to listen. the 23rd Kate Shugak novelpublished April 11, 2023order your signed hardcover hereKindle USKindle UK Excerpt… “She took an associates’ degree in maintenance while she was at it.” “Why didn’t she…
Read more Me on Turn the Page podcast, talking about “Not the Ones Dead”
the 23rd Kate Shugak novelpublished April 11, 2023order your signed hardcover hereKindle USKindle UK an excerpt… The sign on the wall next to the door was in plain brass letters, Pletnikof Investigations. The door opened into a reception area furnished with seating. Copies of PI Magazine were arranged in a meticulous row on the coffee table.…
the 23rd Kate Shugak novelpublished April 11, 2023order your signed hardcover hereKindle USKindle UK At long last, the 23rd Kate Shugak novel is in print! An amuse bouche to whet your appetite… Jim took the other side of the couch and picked up a thick book in an orange and red cover. “You buying books by…
Read more And of course the sexual tension between Kate and Jim continues…with books.
the 23rd Kate Shugak novelpublished April 11, 2023order your signed hardcover hereKindle USKindle UK Ta dah!–allow me introduce you to the three winners of “The History of Kate Shugak in 22 Objects” contest! Top left is Liene from Greenville, South Carolina (those are her son’s feet in the Mutt socks).Top right Laura from Roanoke, Virginia sent…
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At long last, the 23rd Kate Shugak novel is available for your reading pleasure! An excerpt– And emerged onto a riot, albeit a small one. It appeared to be being adequately handled by a joint Grosdidier–Balluta task force. Their ire was concentrated on four men—Bernie squinted—strangers to him. Hunters, probably, as they were dressed in…
Read more What self-respecting Kate Shugak novel doesn’t start with a rumble at the Roadhouse?
Kindle USKindle UK Today is pub day for the 23rd Kate Shugak novel. I know, I can’t believe it, either. Hope to see you at the Poisoned Pen at 7pm tonight. If you can’t make it in person the event will be broadcast on the PP’s YouTube channel, on Facebook Live, and as a podcast on Podbean. Order…
Rerunning my Goodreads review of John Sandford’s Escape Clause here… Any book that begins with Virgil Flowers skinny dipping in a swimming hole works for me. Add in two catnapped Amur tigers, immigrant workers being exploited in a pickle factory, a homicidal animal rights activist, Frankie the farmer girlfriend who is, reluctantly I say it,…
Read more Letty and the Peace-Makers is the name of my next band.
Monday, New Year’s Eve Canyon Hot Springs “Need a refill?” “Well, sure. But who’s going to go get it?” A good question. The wind was howling, the snow was swirling, and on New Year’s Eve it was already as dark as it got in Alaska to begin with. Which made cuddling with your honey in…
For the Object for the 22rd Kate Shugak novel, the winners are (drum roll, please)… Third Place goes to Marla for the thumb drive. I hadn’t even thought of the thumb drive, but of course she’s right, and who couldn’t love that last line? Second place goes to Laura Spafford, for the plane. I love…
