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July 1, 2009

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A Night Too Dark, the 17th Kate Shugak novel (I know, I can’t believe it, either) is now in the clutches of my editor in New York City.
Kelley says her favorite laugh-out-loud line is, “There is supposed to be a dog.”
It will be published in February 2010, and the Danamaniacs are making plans to attend launch day festivities at the Poisoned Pen.
Friend them on Facebook (friend me, too!) and start making plans. I don’t know about you but Scottsdale in February sounds pretty good to me.

I’ve posted a little taste just to drive you crazy. Click here to read it.

And the July 2009 Roadhouse Report is away! Click here to read it.

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guest blogging on 49 Writers, No Moose

June 10, 2009

49 writers
I’m blogging on 49 Writers, No Moose every Monday this month. It’s a great website about all things Alaskan and literary, written by Alaskan writers Deb Vanasse and Andromeda Romano-Lax. I’ll post links here as each goes up.

June 8 - Living Alaskan
June 15 - Loving Coasties
June 22 - Writing History
June 29 - Confessing Geekdom

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what happens next to Kate Shugak?

June 2, 2009

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What do you want to happen?
What don’t you want to happen?
You’ve been hanging with Kate for sixteen novels now, you’ve got ideas, and you know you’ve got opinions.

So, use your webcam to record a one-minute video telling everyone what you think!

Be serious, funny, smart, smart-assed, frightened, furious! Use props, recruit a cast, find a stand-in for the Roadhouse and use it for a backdrop! Stare at the camera bug-eyed for sixty seconds! Everything goes here!

Then send me the clips, which will be edited together by a Certified Professional Filmmaker to make a video, which I will post to YouTube prior to the publication of A Night Too Dark (February 2010).

Dana’s Laws, Guidelines and Ukases:

1. There is no guarantee that all videos will be used.
2. There is no guarantee that more than a second or two of any video will be used. The full video will be about 4 minutes in length total, so there will be editing to fit.
3. Humor will be the guiding factor in the editing process. See the “Kate Shugak series (abridged)” video as an example.
4. Please keep the videos to one minute in length.
5. Please send digital video clips to anighttoodarkvideo@live.com.
6. All videos must be received by September 1, 2009.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your webcams! Make ‘em laugh, cringe, weep, scream! Let’s go viral!

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odeo logoGo here to listen to my guest of honor interview at this year’s Mayhem in the Midlands crime fiction conference. Jan Burke was my interviewer and she was terrific, smart, funny and she really did her homework.

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