The November 2009 newsletter is out, kicking off the three months and sixteen days to publication day of A Night Too Dark.
Congratulations to Donus D. Roberts of Watertown, South Dakota, whose name fell out of the hopper to win the first of four free advance reading copies.
Donus, it’s in the mail!
The first of four preview excerpts is posted here. Click to read.
The Poisoned Pen Bookstore is throwing a launch party in Scottsdale on the day. Go here to join the Danamaniacs on Facebook so you can participate in their full-scale invasion of the event. Go here to reserve your copy of A Night Too Dark, because last year we ran out of books and ain’t nobody happy when that happens.
What one line would you use to describe the Kate Shugak television series if you were alone in an elevator with a Hollywood producer?
That’s the kind of conversation I’m having these days, but that was also an invitation. What would you say to that producer? Post your answer to the Comments at the bottom of this page. If you come up with something we can use (“There are a thousand ways to kill in Alaska, and Kate Shugak knows them all”) you’ll get, I don’t know, maybe a Friends of Mutt mug? And, of course, eternal glory.
If somehow you missed this week’s blitzkrieg of news on the Kate Shugak television series,
here is the story on KTUU (video upper right),
here is the story on APRN,
here is the story on Alaska Dispatch,
here is the story at the Anchorage Daily News, and
here is Mudflats’ terrific post, with photos.
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Kate and Mutt: sharp noses and round heels.
I wish they’d pick your tagline for the series, Dick. I’m going to be laughing all morning. Thanks!
I know it seems simple but I like it….
“You Can Call Me Kate”
Shugak,her Wolf-dog and Alaska- Enough Said
Kate and Mutt “Niniltna” heart!
(a play on words – “Niniltna” could melt ya)
Don’t ever get on the wrong side of these two ladies from Alaska – Kate and Mutt!
Kate Shugak P.I., Mutt her 140lb wolf/Husky mix and Alaska, the last Frontier who could resist?
With her undaunting spirit, her wolf companion Mutt, Kate tames the wilds of Alaska.
Experience Alaska from its glorious to its goriest through the senses of Native born and bred Kate Shugak and her devoted partner wolf dog Mutt.
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Experience Alaska from its glorious to its goriest through the exploits of Native born and bred Kate Shugak and her devoted partner wolf dog Mutt.
Kate Shugat: brains, balls, bad ass attitude,and that’s just to her friends.
Kate will be a dynamite character in a winner series with a different twist and an instant audience.
From your mouth to Hollywood’s ears, Curt. Thanks!
beuatiful face/kickass attitude and the dog aint much safer
kate is nothing w/o mutt. and she knows it.
@Morgan Oohhh, I don’t know, Morgan, them may be fighting words…
We missed you at the Sat race.
A beautiful day on Kachemak bay.
Enter into a world you have never imagined, seen,or known; enter the wilderness Alaska lives of Kate and Mutt. .
Dana, your hair looks great! (Pix in “Mudflats”) I’m really looking forward to a Kate Shugack TV series. Alaska, Kate & Mutt–what more could we ask for?!? Will Jim be her love interest? It’s really great to see so many strong women’s roles showing up on TV! Kathy Reichs’ Temperance Brennan, Tess Gerritsen’s Rizzoli & Isles & now, Dana Stabenow’s Kate Shugak! It’s about time!
I have come late to the party but am partyin’ hardy now. My late husband was an army optometrist stationed at Ft. Richardson in the mid 70′s and I’ve wanted to return ever since. I have been devouring your books and wish you could write as fast as I read. My only grandchild lives in FL so my travel is in the other direction. He has multiple food allergies including severe ones to shellfish and peanuts so I took a particular interest in Lyda Blue. Where were her epi-pens? If we leave the house without my grandson’s we turn around and go back and get them. If he touches something with as much peanut oil in it as Lyda did, he would have hives on his hands before it ever reached his mouth and the immediate tingle in his mouth would have him spitting out the offending food. He’s only 7 and knows to do this! Please check out FAAN, the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network. While you are there, it would be nice to sponsor a walker or buy some of the Divie’s cookies that are money raisers. My daughter won the recipe contest for these.
I would love to do a ‘Kate Tour”.
I’d love there to be a Kate tour, Nancy! Fingers are crossed that a TV series will make that happen.
Alaskan Detective Kate Shugak: badass, smartass, kickass; and her little dog too.
By the way – my husband and I are HOOKED on the Kate Shugak series, having started listening to the books on CD prior to (and during, and now after..) our first trip to Alaska this year. Thank you, Dana, for making the beauty and mystery that IS Alaska come alive for us!
Love it, Lori, thanks. And glad to hear you’re enjoying the books, too!
Thank you for making Old Sam’s death so beautiful. I’ll be singing Mozart’s Requiem tomorrow and it’ll be for Sam (and Jack). Such a lovely treat reading your books back-to-back, at least from “Midnight Come Again” up to “A Night too Dark.” I might start from the beginning, except I don’t think I can face Jack dying all over again. I must have howled louder than Mutt when I came across that part. I have forgiven you for that, though it’s taken me quite a while. I think my husband’s death last year helped me understand the pain of it all and thank you for preparing my acceptance of it.
Thank you for such a wonderful compliment, Inge. Old Sam and Jack — and Kate — will all be listening.
Tonight was the second performance of Mozart’s Requiem and it was an emotional roller coaster: From “grant them eternal rest” to “day of wrath” to “when the accursed have been confounded” to “mournful” to “we offer the sacrifice of prayer and praise.” Today, while we were singing the final phrase “because you are merciful,” there was an extra frisson. I thought it was because, in the end, all judgment depends on the mercy of the judge. Old Sam and Jack are safely past that stage. It’s the living who hope for mercy. It’s a tribute to your genius that I consider characters in your books neighbors whom I’ve not yet been formally introduced to.