My publisher, Minotaur, has put up a blog called Moments in Crime for their authors to post to near the publication date of our novels. I’ll be blogging there daily for a week an anticipation of the February 5th publication of Prepared for Rage.
Blog entries as follows:
Sunday: Have I Reached The Party to Whom I Am Speaking?
Monday: My Worst Day at Work Since Jack Died
Tuesday: Where Kenai Munro Comes From
Wednesday: Cal Schuyler, Coastie rock star
Thursday: Patrick Chisum, the CIA, and me
Friday: an itty-bitty excerpt from Prepared for Rage
Saturday: author sightings
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Dana,
Thanks for the Danamaniacs plug on the Minotaur blog, I love it! I am looking forward to visiting with you on Feb. 12th with the rest of the maniacs.
CathyO
You’re welcome, and see you then!
Hi Dana,
Just got an email from Amazon that my pre-order for Prepared for Rage has been shipped…. several days ahead of the 5th! Can’t wait for the book’s arrival.
I got to visit my son and daughter-in-law in Kodiak over Christmas (He’s been assigned to the Munro.) Had developed a strong desire to see Alaska after reading as many of your books that I could get ahold of. Alaska is as beautiful as everything you had expressed. Minor thing I noticed, that contractors who do exterior door hanging in Alaska, at least at my son’s house, have mastered that art far better than in Seattle. The doors closed perfectly, completely snugly, no binding and no air gaps. Very necessary with the winds on Kodiak, but we could still benefit from the same talents down here.
It was also interesting reading the daily Kodiak and Anchorage newspapers. Found that they were very in touch with what is going on in the rest of the United States, much more so than some of the towns in eastern Washington state. The papers also evidence an awareness of being Alaskan, not necessarily in pride, but a certain spirit in being Alaskan. Have never seen that type of attitude elsewhere.
Beautiful country. You have a good homeland.
Hey, Carol, great to hear from you! Delighted to hear you enjoyed your visit, but then Alaska never disappoints. Hope you like the book as much.
Just finished “Prepared for Rage” and it was just great. I noted 3 references to Heinlein and wondered what that was all about. I grew up with Heinlein and my personal library even now includes all of his books from the juvies to the sex saturated late books. But be it all as it may you should find a great deal of satisfaction in my, and many others, willingness to suspend belief and submerge in what is a “great read”. Thanks for this one.
Thanks, Eric! In re Heinlein, Between Planets was the first sf I ever read, and I was hooked. The juveniles he wrote for serialization in Boys Life are still my favorites. Everyone I went to college with was grokking over Stranger in a Strange Land, and I’d go, “No, no, go get Farmer in the Sky!”
Ithink you were right . The simpler earlier books were more “true ” . Read Frank Herbert’s oft retitled ” Twentyfirst Century Sub ” about the time of ” stranger ‘ still think it i9s one of the best.
The juveniles were more action-oriented than his later stuff, which increasingly seemed to be more and more about sex (like Frank Herbert’s later stuff, like the 5th Dune in which the Bene Gesserits invent a spectacular new sexual technique with which to take over the world–are you kidding me?). I would like to go on record has having nothing against sex, no indeed, but it shouldn’t subsume the narrative. I’ll take their early works, thanks. I’m still rereading Space Cadet and Have Spacesuit Will Travel and Red Planet. I don’t think I own a copy of Stranger.
Heinlein’s Starship Troopers posits politics unlike ours. Want to vote? Serve. I often think that the illegal immigrant issues could, simplistically, be dealt with by mandating service in exchange for citizenship. Esp since I was a draftee in the 60’s serving 20 months and 17 days. And Moon is a Harsh Mistress rehashes the Revolutionary War tweaking the same issues and same answers with a twist. Your Cal’s view of the illegal issue was too much like our politicians. He didn’t know what to do but I sense that the immorality of the “feet dry” answer affects him. I do know that Heinlein made me and still makes me think. Your first chapter of Rage I compare with the best of Heinlein. I was not offended so much as I was caused to think. I put the book down for a time while I thought about the implications. I think we, as a nation, have failed to understand the mind that can believe in the necessity for Honor killing at whatever cost. I find that acceptance of women as possessions is so contrary to the core of our values that it is political correctness gone corrupt. He/She who fails to learn from history/experience is doomed to repeat it and fail again and again.
I love Moon and I revere Starship Troopers. “Men are not potatoes!”
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