Comments on: silk and song

By: Dana

Dana — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:00:23 +0000

From your mouth to New York’s ear, Sally. Even if I sez it who shouldn’t, I think it’s pretty good, too, and I really want to write it.

By: Sally Cecil

Sally Cecil — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:23:04 +0000

I love the strong women whom you create. I have just finished reading the 6 chapters of Silk & Song and I can’t wait to read more and learn more. From my mouth to your publisher’s ear: are you crazy that there’s not a contract already signed? There’s a lot more money which will flow into your pockets when this is published. Isn’t that your bottom line? My bottom line is that it’s a fascinating tale that I want to read and I’m ready to pay my money.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:14:53 +0000

Thanks. You comfort me.

By: mlsmith67

mlsmith67 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:54:07 +0000

Wow! Someone needs to camp out on your publisher’s doorstep until he/she agrees to read - and publish! - this. It is crazy for a publisher to insist on an author staying with his/her “tried and true” subject/ genre / characters, when that author is as talented and has as great an imagination as you are and do.
When word comes out that the book will be published, I’ll be standing in line with my money (or at least ordering it online, since there aren’t any bookstores near me).

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:47:39 +0000

Thank you so much, Penny, and will do!

By: Penny

Penny — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:22:35 +0000

Dana,
Just finished the first 4 chapters of Silk & Song. You’ve done it again - created a new group of characters I MUST get to know better. I hope you batch up every one of these comments and send them to your publisher. This may be a new genre for you, but I predict it will be at least as successful as Kate, the Coasties, & Liam. I am looking forward to the new Kate mystery, but also now NEED to have more of Silk & Song!!
Please continue!!!

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:40:43 +0000

Deee-lighted to hear it, Kate, and thanks! Please do keep checking back, I’ll be posting more excerpts.

By: Kate L.

Kate L. — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:21:34 +0000

Dana,

You have excellent timing! I just read From Venice to Xanadu, Laurence Bergreen’s take on Marco Polo’s travels (which was good, though not as engrossing as his book about Magellan, Over the Edge of the World). So I was ready to ‘visit’ that part of the world again, vicariously until I can do so for myself. Tell your publisher that these chapters merely whet my reading appetite for more. And I have friends who aren’t mystery readers (which I find inexplicable, she said with a grin) but who love historical fiction, so I’d be happy to push copies on them.

Meanwhile, I’ll keep checking back here for more on the Silk Road ….

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:23:13 +0000

Thanks, Erma! Although I should warn you, there will be a certain amount of grimness in Silk and Song, too. The medival world was not kind to the weak or the poor.

By: Erma Lawton

Erma Lawton — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:29:31 +0000

P.S.

Took Prepared for Rage out of the box and started it before I fed the cat and finished it (the first reading) before I could go to bed.

It was sooo grim in parts;I hope you have more fun writing Silk and Song.

Meanwhile, there will be more Kate….