Comments on: in the Antarctic http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic The Official Dana Stabenow Web Site Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:31:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Jan Schuroll http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-42018 Jan Schuroll Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:13:11 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-42018 You're welcome. Actually, from my advanced perspective (I'll be 65 in June), my belief is the more dimensions each of us has in our personhood, the better, unless too many pop up and make us go over the edge! You’re welcome. Actually, from my advanced perspective (I’ll be 65 in June), my belief is the more dimensions each of us has in our personhood, the better, unless too many pop up and make us go over the edge!

]]> By: Dana http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-41997 Dana Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:59:46 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-41997 Thanks, Jan. At least you're not breathing fire and smoke that I'm veering off from the Kate Shugak series. Again. Thanks, Jan. At least you’re not breathing fire and smoke that I’m veering off from the Kate Shugak series. Again.

]]> By: Jan Schuroll http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-41996 Jan Schuroll Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:15:54 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-41996 Just read the excerpt of Silk and Song. Thanks for making the effort to branch out with a different focus. Historical fiction books are good to read; such as Edward Rutherford and Thomas Costain. Had a short trip to Valdez last fall to visit my Coastie son; will return this year to see more of the vastness that is Alaska. Just read the excerpt of Silk and Song. Thanks for making the effort to branch out with a different focus. Historical fiction books are good to read; such as Edward Rutherford and Thomas Costain. Had a short trip to Valdez last fall to visit my Coastie son; will return this year to see more of the vastness that is Alaska.

]]> By: Dana http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-41562 Dana Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:34:41 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-41562 So am I, Carol! I should have another Silk and Song excerpt up by the end of the month. Stay tuned... So am I, Carol! I should have another Silk and Song excerpt up by the end of the month. Stay tuned…

]]> By: Carol G http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-41556 Carol G Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:44:36 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-41556 Hi Dana, I realize you're in the midst of working on the latest Kate Shugak book, but has any progress developed in publisher receptivity to "Silk and Sand?" The characters were intriguing. I can foresee, as you've laid the story out thus far, a probable final conclusion, but you're pretty good at throwing in a few twists. In any event, the story should be interesting, and, as you have mentioned in previous blogs, there are times the characters take on their own lives and do their own things. Am looking forward to seeing what they will do. Carol G Hi Dana,

I realize you’re in the midst of working on the latest Kate Shugak book, but has any progress developed in publisher receptivity to “Silk and Sand?” The characters were intriguing. I can foresee, as you’ve laid the story out thus far, a probable final conclusion, but you’re pretty good at throwing in a few twists. In any event, the story should be interesting, and, as you have mentioned in previous blogs, there are times the characters take on their own lives and do their own things. Am looking forward to seeing what they will do.

Carol G

]]> By: Dana http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-41492 Dana Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:41:23 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-41492 Great to hear that you're enjoying the work, Lil (I think), and thanks for writing to say so. As to the inconsistencies, I could say "Bad writer! Bad writer!" and leave it at that, but in my own defense after sixteen novels in the same universe, with Liams and sf and short stories and Alaska magazine articles and stand-alone novels in between, sometimes it's hard to keep track of the details. I have been talking to <a href="http://groups.msn.com/DANAMANIACS/" rel="nofollow">the Danamaniacs</a> about creating a Kate data base to alleviate this problem. Watch the website, I'll let you know soonest where you can contribute. Great to hear that you’re enjoying the work, Lil (I think), and thanks for writing to say so. As to the inconsistencies, I could say “Bad writer! Bad writer!” and leave it at that, but in my own defense after sixteen novels in the same universe, with Liams and sf and short stories and Alaska magazine articles and stand-alone novels in between, sometimes it’s hard to keep track of the details. I have been talking to the Danamaniacs about creating a Kate data base to alleviate this problem. Watch the website, I’ll let you know soonest where you can contribute.

]]> By: Lil Palmer http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-41429 Lil Palmer Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:19:01 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-41429 I love your books on AK and have read all of the Shugak books, Liam Campbell series as well as Blindfold Game and your latest, Prepared for rage. I would like to see more Campbell books but please stick with one description for Jim Chopin. I have read in your books that he is almost 7 feet tall, dark blond hair, then a few inches over 6 feet and dark hair. I hate it when I read a series and a character keeps appearing and looking different in each book. Also in your book The Singing Dead, you named one of the main characters, Anne Gordaoff married to Doug Gordaoff, but Angel was supposedly her gr.grandmother, not his. Yet at the end of the story Kate finds the old grave and marker and it lists Angel's granddaughters as Leonie Halvorsen Gordaoff and Angelique Halvorsen Shugak. Unless Anne married a cousin or other relative and her maiden name was also Gordaoff, this doesn't jibe with Angel being her gr.grandmother. Nitpicking I know, but I like my people to make sense when I read about them, not read one time they are cousins, the next the cousin is an aunt or uncle. Happens in too many books but must say your stories are wonderful and having visited Alaska many times, I do love reading about it and it's people. Kate and Mutt are wonderful too but I do miss Jack and Kate together. Would like Jim better with her if you hadn't called him "father of the park" so many times and inferred he had strewn illegitmate children from one end of Alaska to another. Kind gives me the yuck factor with him! You have toned that down a lot so that he isn't quite such a jerk so maybe the relationship has a chance after all and he does haul Kate out of a lot of scrapes so have to credit him for that. I love your books on AK and have read all of the Shugak books, Liam Campbell series as well as Blindfold Game and your latest, Prepared for rage. I would like to see more Campbell books but please stick with one description for Jim Chopin. I have read in your books that he is almost 7 feet tall, dark blond hair, then a few inches over 6 feet and dark hair. I hate it when I read a series and a character keeps appearing and looking different in each book. Also in your book The Singing Dead, you named one of the main characters, Anne Gordaoff married to Doug Gordaoff, but Angel was supposedly her gr.grandmother, not his. Yet at the end of the story Kate finds the old grave and marker and it lists Angel’s granddaughters as Leonie Halvorsen Gordaoff and Angelique Halvorsen Shugak. Unless Anne married a cousin or other relative and her maiden name was also Gordaoff, this doesn’t jibe with Angel being her gr.grandmother. Nitpicking I know, but I like my people to make sense when I read about them, not read one time they are cousins, the next the cousin is an aunt or uncle. Happens in too many books but must say your stories are wonderful and having visited Alaska many times, I do love reading about it and it’s people. Kate and Mutt are wonderful too but I do miss Jack and Kate together. Would like Jim better with her if you hadn’t called him “father of the park” so many times and inferred he had strewn illegitmate children from one end of Alaska to another. Kind gives me the yuck factor with him! You have toned that down a lot so that he isn’t quite such a jerk so maybe the relationship has a chance after all and he does haul Kate out of a lot of scrapes so have to credit him for that.

]]> By: Dana http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-40806 Dana Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:54:54 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-40806 I can't help you, Ed, I'm swamped in my own to-read shelf, and I can't even get to it until I get the next Kate done and in. You're on your own! I can’t help you, Ed, I’m swamped in my own to-read shelf, and I can’t even get to it until I get the next Kate done and in. You’re on your own!

]]> By: Ed King http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-40789 Ed King Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:33:21 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/02/28/in-the-antarctic#comment-40789 Alright finish 2nd Star - Started A Handful of Stars - Finished E. Moon Vatta series and got current on Hendee " Damphir " series . . . ." Bourne Identity " has jumped into the mix . . . HELP I'M LOSING GROUND ! Alright finish 2nd Star - Started A Handful of Stars - Finished E. Moon Vatta series and got current on Hendee ” Damphir ” series . . . .” Bourne Identity ” has jumped into the mix . . . HELP I’M LOSING GROUND !

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