Comments on: Snerts: File down your fingernails. http://www.stabenow.com/2006/08/03/file-down-your-fingernails The Official Dana Stabenow Web Site Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:30:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Sue Browne http://www.stabenow.com/2006/08/03/file-down-your-fingernails#comment-48028 Sue Browne Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:18:07 +0000 http://localhost:8888/stabenow_wp/?p=33#comment-48028 Hi Dana, Thank you for your reply and so quickly too. Also thanks for the information about the bookstore, I'll do just as you suggest. You're so right about people trying to see Alaska in 2 days! This is our second 2 week trip and even then we shall only have scratched the surface. Most people think they've seen Alaska when they've done the cruise from Vancouver and we've been nowhere near that yet. If I spot you around Homer I'll give you a wave as I know what you look like from your book jacket photo, I'm likely to be around the bookstore and the Seams to Bee quilt shop when we're not out being adventurous. Thanks for all the pleasure your books have given me and keep up the good work! Sue Hi Dana, Thank you for your reply and so quickly too. Also thanks for the information about the bookstore, I’ll do just as you suggest. You’re so right about people trying to see Alaska in 2 days! This is our second 2 week trip and even then we shall only have scratched the surface. Most people think they’ve seen Alaska when they’ve done the cruise from Vancouver and we’ve been nowhere near that yet. If I spot you around Homer I’ll give you a wave as I know what you look like from your book jacket photo, I’m likely to be around the bookstore and the Seams to Bee quilt shop when we’re not out being adventurous. Thanks for all the pleasure your books have given me and keep up the good work! Sue

]]> By: Dana http://www.stabenow.com/2006/08/03/file-down-your-fingernails#comment-48013 Dana Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:57:49 +0000 http://localhost:8888/stabenow_wp/?p=33#comment-48013 Hello backatcha, Sue! Sounds like a fabulous trip. So many people have no idea how big Alaska is and think they can see everything in two days. Glad you're taking some time. Homer has a very nice bookstore, the Homer Bookstore on Pioneer Avenue, they keep my titles in stock. Their website is http://www.homerbookstore.com/. Call or write them before you get to Homer and tell them you want a copy of the book. They'll call me to come down and sign it, and it'll be ready for you to pick up. Don't have any public appearances scheduled until next year. Hello backatcha, Sue! Sounds like a fabulous trip. So many people have no idea how big Alaska is and think they can see everything in two days. Glad you’re taking some time.

Homer has a very nice bookstore, the Homer Bookstore on Pioneer Avenue, they keep my titles in stock. Their website is http://www.homerbookstore.com/. Call or write them before you get to Homer and tell them you want a copy of the book. They’ll call me to come down and sign it, and it’ll be ready for you to pick up. Don’t have any public appearances scheduled until next year.

]]> By: Sue Browne http://www.stabenow.com/2006/08/03/file-down-your-fingernails#comment-47973 Sue Browne Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:42:17 +0000 http://localhost:8888/stabenow_wp/?p=33#comment-47973 Dana, Hi from the UK! Hope this is the right place to post this. I'm just re-reading my Kate books before a trip to Alaska coming up soon. I really enjoy the books and the memories they stir up from my last trip in 2001. I've always enjoyed good murder mysteries and yours have the added dimension of the wonderful atmosphere and ambience of Alaska! We shall be taking the train from Anchorage up to Fairbanks stopping at Denali on the way then driving around including visits to Valdez, Seward and Homer with whale watching and grizzly bears at Brooks River included. I'm buzzing with excitement. We arrive in Anchorage on the 22nd June and will be in Homer from the 2nd to the 5th July. I'm planning buying 'Prepared for Rage' whilst I'm there and wondered whether you'll be around anywhere for book signings whilst we're there. Oh, and a couple of little things to finish - I really liked little Stephanie in 'Midnight Come Again' - do you have any plans to bring her into Kate's life again, and please, please stop people hurting Mutt! Looking forward to the next Kate book, Sue Dana, Hi from the UK! Hope this is the right place to post this. I’m just re-reading my Kate books before a trip to Alaska coming up soon. I really enjoy the books and the memories they stir up from my last trip in 2001. I’ve always enjoyed good murder mysteries and yours have the added dimension of the wonderful atmosphere and ambience of Alaska! We shall be taking the train from Anchorage up to Fairbanks stopping at Denali on the way then driving around including visits to Valdez, Seward and Homer with whale watching and grizzly bears at Brooks River included. I’m buzzing with excitement. We arrive in Anchorage on the 22nd June and will be in Homer from the 2nd to the 5th July. I’m planning buying ‘Prepared for Rage’ whilst I’m there and wondered whether you’ll be around anywhere for book signings whilst we’re there. Oh, and a couple of little things to finish - I really liked little Stephanie in ‘Midnight Come Again’ - do you have any plans to bring her into Kate’s life again, and please, please stop people hurting Mutt! Looking forward to the next Kate book, Sue

]]> By: Freda Henderson http://www.stabenow.com/2006/08/03/file-down-your-fingernails#comment-43499 Freda Henderson Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:14:25 +0000 http://localhost:8888/stabenow_wp/?p=33#comment-43499 I can't wait for the next Kate book. I have them all and have read all of them at least 3 times. Some of them I have read more than that. Dana can you by any chance write 2 kate books a year? Just kidding. I can’t wait for the next Kate book. I have them all and have read all of them at least 3 times. Some of them I have read more than that. Dana can you by any chance write 2 kate books a year? Just kidding.

]]> By: Dana http://www.stabenow.com/2006/08/03/file-down-your-fingernails#comment-22709 Dana Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:55:33 +0000 http://localhost:8888/stabenow_wp/?p=33#comment-22709 More than a few, Bob. And thanks! More than a few, Bob. And thanks!

]]> By: Bob Lindley http://www.stabenow.com/2006/08/03/file-down-your-fingernails#comment-22572 Bob Lindley Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:36:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/stabenow_wp/?p=33#comment-22572 Dana, Ive got to say I have thoroughly enjoyed every book in the Kate Shugak series, and now I am delving into the life of Liam Campbell. Are you planning on adding more books to the Kate series? As for the formentioned comments on the rednecks, as a recent transplant to Kentucky, your description of the rednecks is right on for a portion of the population. I have lived all over the country and you find rednecks in every state from coast to coast, i'm sure there are a few in Alaska as well. Thanks for the many hours of enjoyment you have provided. Dana, Ive got to say I have thoroughly enjoyed every book in the Kate Shugak series, and now I am delving into the life of Liam Campbell. Are you planning on adding more books to the Kate series? As for the formentioned comments on the rednecks, as a recent transplant to Kentucky, your description of the rednecks is right on for a portion of the population. I have lived all over the country and you find rednecks in every state from coast to coast, i’m sure there are a few in Alaska as well. Thanks for the many hours of enjoyment you have provided.

]]> By: Lindig Harris http://www.stabenow.com/2006/08/03/file-down-your-fingernails#comment-21695 Lindig Harris Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:55:25 +0000 http://localhost:8888/stabenow_wp/?p=33#comment-21695 I thought the eagle-dog scene was hilarious, and Kate did try to warn the woman. There's idiots everywhere -- France, Tennessee, Alabama, Alaska -- so your redneck reader should learn to lighten up. I can say that as I am a hillbilly in the North Carolina mountains (y'all) and spent a lot of time as a swamp-stomper in Brunswick County NC (the Green Swamp where Cape Fear was filmed). I've liked all your books, esp. the SF ones. Thanks. I thought the eagle-dog scene was hilarious, and Kate did try to warn the woman. There’s idiots everywhere — France, Tennessee, Alabama, Alaska — so your redneck reader should learn to lighten up. I can say that as I am a hillbilly in the North Carolina mountains (y’all) and spent a lot of time as a swamp-stomper in Brunswick County NC (the Green Swamp where Cape Fear was filmed). I’ve liked all your books, esp. the SF ones. Thanks.

]]> By: Dana http://www.stabenow.com/2006/08/03/file-down-your-fingernails#comment-20379 Dana Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:16:19 +0000 http://localhost:8888/stabenow_wp/?p=33#comment-20379 Well, I guess you told me, didn't you, Constance? Sorry you didn't like the book. For what it's worth, the eagle snatching the dog story is true, as reported on the front page of the Anchorage Daily News, and the plot of Play With Fire is based on three true incidents of religious intolerance here in Alaska during the past twenty years, one resulting in destruction of private property, one which resulted in the resignation of an entire school board, and one which resulted in attempted murder. Well, I guess you told me, didn’t you, Constance? Sorry you didn’t like the book. For what it’s worth, the eagle snatching the dog story is true, as reported on the front page of the Anchorage Daily News, and the plot of Play With Fire is based on three true incidents of religious intolerance here in Alaska during the past twenty years, one resulting in destruction of private property, one which resulted in the resignation of an entire school board, and one which resulted in attempted murder.

]]> By: Constance White http://www.stabenow.com/2006/08/03/file-down-your-fingernails#comment-20362 Constance White Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:51:05 +0000 http://localhost:8888/stabenow_wp/?p=33#comment-20362 I have read most of your books & thoroughly enjoyed them, especially the Kate Shugak series. Until now, that is. Somehow "Play With Fire" had escaped my notice & when I saw it at my local bookstore recently, I bought a copy & looked forward to reading it. However, less than halfway through the story, when Kate actually chortles because a little dog is snatched up by an eagle, I stopped liking Kate. Call me a bleeding heart animal lover, but I fail to see the humor in someone's pet being swooped away for a snack. Still, I overcame my newfound distaste for the heroine & forged ahead, determined to enjoy the book. This resolve was short lived when in the next chapter, Kate regales us with a tale of "rednecks" from Alabama & Tennessee who, with their uncouth manners & bad driving, cause an accident. This hackneyed stereotype of anybody who lives below the Mason-Dixon line is too ignorant & worn out to be truly offensive. Nevertheless, it *is* irritating, being as how I are one of them thar rednecks. Do I want to spend my hard earned money lining the coffers of an author who uses her characters to flout her own blanket prejudices against an entire group of people (readers) based on their geographical location? Do I relish paying someone to insult my intelligence? No, I most emphatically do not. Nor will I again. Kate wishes the rednecks were in Dixie, you tell us. Obviously, she's glad she *isn't*. Just as obviously, (not much reading between the lines necessary here, folks) she echoes your sentiments. Well guess what, Ms. Stabenow? You may be glad you aren't in Dixie, too, but not half as glad as we are. :) I have read most of your books & thoroughly enjoyed them, especially the Kate Shugak series. Until now, that is. Somehow “Play With Fire” had escaped my notice & when I saw it at my local bookstore recently, I bought a copy & looked forward to reading it. However, less than halfway through the story, when Kate actually chortles because a little dog is snatched up by an eagle, I stopped liking Kate. Call me a bleeding heart animal lover, but I fail to see the humor in someone’s pet being swooped away for a snack. Still, I overcame my newfound distaste for the heroine & forged ahead, determined to enjoy the book. This resolve was short lived when in the next chapter, Kate regales us with a tale of “rednecks” from Alabama & Tennessee who, with their uncouth manners & bad driving, cause an accident. This hackneyed stereotype of anybody who lives below the Mason-Dixon line is too ignorant & worn out to be truly offensive. Nevertheless, it *is* irritating, being as how I are one of them thar rednecks. Do I want to spend my hard earned money lining the coffers of an author who uses her characters to flout her own blanket prejudices against an entire group of people (readers) based on their geographical location? Do I relish paying someone to insult my intelligence? No, I most emphatically do not. Nor will I again. Kate wishes the rednecks were in Dixie, you tell us. Obviously, she’s glad she *isn’t*. Just as obviously, (not much reading between the lines necessary here, folks) she echoes your sentiments. Well guess what, Ms. Stabenow? You may be glad you aren’t in Dixie, too, but not half as glad as we are. :)

]]> By: Dana http://www.stabenow.com/2006/08/03/file-down-your-fingernails#comment-17675 Dana Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:40:57 +0000 http://localhost:8888/stabenow_wp/?p=33#comment-17675 Really. I never noticed. I will now bring it to the attention of my editor, and thank you, Charles. Really. I never noticed. I will now bring it to the attention of my editor, and thank you, Charles.

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