In honor of Audiobook Month, today we’re giving away 5 copies of the audio of Restless in the Grave!
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In the comments below, tell me why you want one. Simple as that.
Comment submissions end tonight at midnight Alaska time.
I will choose my five favorite comments tomorrow, and the five people who wrote them will win an audio copy, sent to them personally (and if I know her, immediately) by Samantha the Sensational down at Macmillan Audio.
Let your inner audio geek off the chain. Write hard and win!
After remembering how I had dropped a book (thankfully not one of yours Dana!) into the bath a couple of months ago, I thought to myself that’s how I would like to listen to the Restless in the Grave audio book… while relaxing in a long hot bath! Plus, do I get extra points this time for working out the time difference correctly and posting on the right day? (New Zealand is about 20 hours ahead of Alaska!) Thanks Dana
Well I’d like a copy of Restless in the Grave because as any red blooded & still breathing male is naturally in love with Kate. Also to be considered is the fact that in my mind Marguerite Gavin is the voice of Kate. So to warm the winter we are presently having here in the Southern Hemisphere (or as we prefer it The Top of the World unlike the way the maps you people print in that other Hemisphere which show the Earth the wrong way up (& I have a map to prove it, thanks Wizard of Christchurch) – in space there is no up as a SF writer this you should know) anyway I want to hear more of Kate’s voice so thanks for the opportunity to dream.
I’m living in a small town in central France. Bookstores abound, but as my French vocabulary is limited to about 100 words, I find myself reading far too little while I wait for guests to visit bringing suitcases of goodies. Since the airlines prefer luggage to be under a certain weight (and the hardcover new releases wreak havoc on those limits) and shipping from the US is just so expensive, I will be rereading “Though Not Dead” for the third time eagerly awaiting word if I might possibly expect the newest title in an audiobook format par la poste française anytime soon…
Dana, you’re killing me! I used all my best stuff the first week and still didn’t win. At least I know I got your attention with humor. Congratulations to those who won an audio version of Restless In The Grave.
The office saga continues as to why I need an audio book as a distraction from the noise. Yesterday afternoon the phase of the day was “Time travel is possible”, don’t ask, I have no clue where some of this stuff comes from. The guys love movies, old and new and they quote lines from all types of movies. They would get all your movie references from Local Hero to Star Wars and Princess Bride. And here I thought I was one of very few people who had ever seen Local Hero.
My office of IT techs enjoy movies. They quote from Sling Blade and Forrest Grump, yes they can do the voices of Carl and Forrest. Something will happen in the office and I’ll hear “stupid is as stupid does”. It cracks me up when suddenly Larry says “ain’t got no gas” and he does the voice of Carl perfectly. You’d enjoy my strange group of co-workers, they can be fun, but it can get a bit old. So there you have it, in order to drown out the craziness I plug in my headphones. What better place to go than into Kate’s world.
It would be great to listen to this audiobook and then be able to hand it to the two young men who will be couchsurfing at our place on their way to Anchorage…I figure that might make up for my constant warbling of Johnny Horton to them…
Being a ‘lost Alaskan found in Texas’ I LOVE Kate and Mutt and the whole gang. I have read most of the books but because hubs is too busy he doesn’t pick up a print book these days, just plugs in his audio book. I’d love to have Kate to listen to instead of his current fare.
We are having to make many trips between home and Drs for our son’s recovery. Kate would warm the cockles of my heart and let me dream of ‘home’ and pretend I’m there instead of on the flat plains of Texas.
I would really like to win one of your audiobooks. I enjoying reading, love your books. Having one of your books in audio would give me an opportunity to continuing while I’m cooking, cleaning or driving the kids around.
It’s just this simple!
I want one because I don’t yet have one!
Boy, would I love to win your audio book! I’m going to be traveling across country in a couple of weeks and NOTHING would give me greater pleasure than to listen to one of your wonderful books. Well, okay, nibbling on kettle corn would be pretty pleasurable. No, no, I’m positive listening to your books would even top that!
Dana, It’s been years since I listened to an audio book, and I can’t imagine a better place to start again other than with Kate Shugak.
One of my main reasons for being such a fan of hers is because she is one terrific “kick ass” woman. I love stories about strong women. I love, even more, stories about “short, kick ass” women (being short myself). I’m also very fond of the way she “tames” (so to speak) the men in her life. Watching her seduce Jim Chopin was fabulous.
I would love to hear someone bring Kate to life, and from what I have heard, Marguerite Gavin is terrific as the voice of Kate.
It would be a huge thrill to begin the audio journey again with Kate in Restless in the Grave.
Thanks for the chance!
Linda in VA
I love listening to audiobooks and then narrator makes all the difference. I listen to them when I’m knitting, because I can’t hold a book and knit at the same time. What a great way to multi-task! And if I’m listening to Kate chase the bad guys, all the better.
I haven’t tried an audiobook yet. I commute 3 hours a day by bus and I would love to try one out. Dana’s books have been enjoyable in paperback, hardcover and kindle so I suspect that an audiobook version would be great as well.
Like Peggy above, I used my best story last week. I’ve read all your books and eagerly await the next. I prefer Kate Shugak to Liam Campbell and both of them to the others. I have a couple of your books on audio but not all. I need something to keep me in the car on long trips as I don’t enjoy driving but my granddaughters live an hour away and Na’ama will do anything for the grand girls. Your books keep me on the road….or in the driveway listening to the end of the chapter before going in.
I don’t have a great story today, but I know that winning Restless Grave and listening to it will significantly improve my mood as I commute to work on I-95 in Miami-Dade county. The story will help me find some calm in the midst of traffic mayhem and delay (or at least let me imagine living somewhere that doesn’t include a 10-lane highway).
I would adore having the audio book because I’ve been up for ages, fed the hounds (okay, cats. Jack Shugak is still here), turned the compost (a grand job to do here in Wales because it stayes so wet and heavy), hauled brush that didn’t want to be hauled, tried my damndest to dig up the roots of a huge bush that refused to budge, scooped poop, did laundry, cleaned out trash cans (rubbish day don’t ‘cha know) sanded a chair, ‘tidyed’ my husbands work bench (that was great fun!), painted, all while on my second, read it again, SECOND day of my detox totally raw food diet (such a joy). I am a force to be reconded with and probably not the nicest person in the world today. I want nothing more than a soft horizontal surface and the melodious tones of Marguerite Gavin reading the brilliant words of Dana Stabnow in my future. That’s not too much to ask now is it? Really?
I admit, I prefer “real” books because I’m old and I’ve been reading for decades now, and I just like the feel and smell of a paper book. However, I may be old, but I’m not averse to trying something new…plus, I have a vacation coming up and reading while driving can be hazardous, so listening to a book about a favorite character is the next best thing to reading.
I have only recently discovered the joy of audio books. The best thing, I think is being able to just lose yourself in the book, because it is actively in you, playing. The second best thing is that listening to a book is so much safer than reading one when I go for my daily, good long walk. Much less chance of getting run over, as my head is not in the book, the book is in my head. It’s almost like absorbing the book. It’s great.
Hi, Dana! I have read and loved all of the Kate books, and have my FOM sticker on my Jeep.
I am a caretaker for my folks, who at 92 are both in very good health but suffering from dementia. Mom always comments on my FOM sticker, and I tell her stories about Kate and Mutt in Alaska. Both have always been voracious readers, and now have a difficult time concentrating on the written word. Mom is very bored, as most of the things she enjoyed are beyond her now; we still have jigsaw puzzles and Lawrence Welk, lol, but she really misses escaping in a book. I’m hoping that for a little while each day they might be whisked away to revel in the adventures of our Kate on audio, like the old radio shows.
Since I love your books I re-read them each summer. By the way I understand Dead in the Water even more since watching the Deadliest Catch. This would be my first audio book which everyone tells me I need to do. If I have an audio book I could listen to it while my husband undergoes his chemo treatments. Of course this could morf into an obsession with audio books.
I would love a copy to give to my local library. I work there one day a week, and the audio books are very popular. I love your Kate series, but I can’t do audio books. I have to see the print – I can’t follow a book on tape – just my learning style, I guess. I haven’t read Restless in the Grave yet, but I have requested it in our library system, and I will be asking our director to purchase a copy for our branch. We lived in the PacNorthWest for a while, but I never made it up to Alaska. When I read your books, I can pretend I did. Keep writing!!
One of the Road Ragers here, still hoping to get to listen to Marguerite’s sexy Kate-voice (well, it IS sexy!). Besides the other crazy drivers I need something to take my mind off of the fact that the audio book I just finished (The Lost Gate) is the first one in a series & the next one won’t be out until sometime next year!
I grew up on an Alaskan island in a logging camp- no tv or newspapers, only comic books passes from house to house and picking up and reading castoff books my parents and neughbors discarded. Teachers came and went- outside teachers who were in search of their Alaskan Adventure- teachers who discovered that the long winters and cool, cold and colder weather, rain and snow was not what they were looking for. In a school with 12-15 students at any time (6 of these were madd up of me and my siblings), we finally got THE TEACHER. The One-Mrs. Rhodes – who nutured and inspired us. Her greatest deed tho was that she read to us daily. We’d be dismissed for lunch (walking home to eat of course) and upon our return, she’d build a fire in the stove and get out a book. For the next hour, she read to us: Kidnapped, Johnny Tremain, Jane Eyre- westerns, history, anything she could find. And with much whining and fretting from her audience, after an hour and a half, she’d close the book and bring us back to real time. My love of hearing a story is evident today, born of those experiences and manifested in investments of audiobooks- so I never have to be without a story. My heart is there in AK still yet. Dana Stabenow, your stories transport me back home- it helps me cover my time in the Midwest and in between my quarterly visits- until I can go home. That is all.
hi there Dana
personally, an audio copy of your novel would be icing on the cake. I would just like to say that i got a used kindle for Christmas and was using my gift card from one of my beautiful daughters to buy novels. as my gift card ran out I started looking at the free and cheap stuff and your first Kate Shugak novel caught my eye. I started reading and in the first chapter you referenced John Macdonalds “Pale Grey for guilt” and I thought Wow one of my favorite authors, along with Tony Hillerman and Robert Parker. As I read on…Well I was hooked, now I have another favorite author!! the good news is I am new to your work. So I got the Liam Campbell novel and Second Star novel and liked them both so now I am working my way thru your novels in order and the pleasure is all mine. Your characters are well fleshed out and I feel as if i know them after all who dosnt have a crazy cousin. so i haunt my library and use my monthly “kindle allowance” on your novels. I just want to say thanks and hope you lived a very long life so I can selfishly enjoy your work and learn about Alaska.
Thank you
george
p.s. please forgive spelling and i hope this goes to the right place, i was dragged kicking and screaming by my daughters to the 20th century and now its the 21st century, I do pretty good typing with my forefingers.
I’ve just bought my plane ticket to attend a gathering of cousins in my mother’s clan, some of whom I have not seen or contacted since 1965. One of the proposed events is a trip to see our 98 year old aunt on the other side of the state (3 1/2 hours each way). The audio book could be great for bonding on the car trip, or, if we find we can’t stand one another, I could use it to disappear behind my headphones into another world.
I am helping a couple of my friends by sitting with their father/father-in-law as he is in hospice with days to live. Last week he smiled when I tried to read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” as she fell down the rabbit hole. My voice is not geared to entertain like Marguerite’s is. Am trying to find an audio book of one of your stories to play for him as he is now sleeping almost the entire day. I sit with him during the day and would leave the audio for Kit to play while she is with her father in the evening. This would also be a balm for her.
Living in Southern California, I spend a lot more time driving than I would care to, but when I listen to an audiobook, I can be in China, on an alien planet, several hundred years in the past or inside someone else’s head instead of being stuck on the I-5! Having a great audiobook waiting for me in the van gives me the courage to get out there and face another day of traffic.
I have several reasons for wanting to win a copy of Restless in the Grave specifically: 1) I started reading the Kate Shugak novels in preparation for our first trip to Alaska last year and didn’t stop until I had read them all, 2) I have not read any of the Liam Campbell novels and 3) I really enjoy it when authors bring two of their characters together (think Leaphorn and Chee), because you gain insights into each of the characters that you don’t get when they’re “on their own.” I am hopeful that this will be the start of, if not a Bogie & Bacall relationship (I certainly hope not, for Jim’s sake!), at least a professional collaboration of the same caliber as Astaire & Rogers.
Yipes! I’m really not trying to stuff the ballot box, but when I entered earlier this morning, I saw that there was a note saying that “Your comment is awaiting moderation” and when I just went in to see what other comments had been posted, my comment was gone and so, I tried to recreate what I had written and now I see both of them, still “awaiting moderation.” Sorry about this. Please just delete one of them. Thanks!
P.S. I am curious, though, what does “Your comment is awaiting moderation” mean? Was it too long? Did I use some unacceptable phrase? Too many proper nouns? Sorry to be such a pain. . .
I would love to hear the voice interpretation of RESTLESS IN THE GTAVE, in part to hear a different take on this book I have enjoyed so much. Do I get extra consideration for having purchases, and read, downloads of your Star Svensdaughter book because I remembered reading and lovin them.
I attended your book signing at Powells in Beaverton, Oregon. Was very sad that the “mutt cup” was not given away. I later found out that it did not arrive in time for the signing. So, I bought two on line. Since I missed out on the cup, I am trying for the audio book. You never know, sometimes even a blind squirrel finds an acorn. This just might be my acorn!
A great friend and fellow bibliophile introduced me to Kate during my second winter in North Pole, Alaska. An arctic char chomping a cheez-egg at the end of an ice fishing jig would have been in less trouble than me! Hooked isn’t the half of it! Kate, Mutt, Emaa, Jack, Jim, the Aunties, Old Sam, Bobby & Dinah, the many Parkrats and Anchoragerats and Alaska itself are more than a little addictive. I so thoughroughly enjoy reading their adventures, I would love, LOVE to hear them too! Greedy? Nah! Just insatiable for fully fleshed, flawed-but-fantastic characters placed in intriguing, harrowing, uncomfortable but always interesting situations
Friends of Mutt forever! Even if the cat sulks now and then…
I love your books! I have everything you’ve written in Ebooks on my IPad2, except SciFi, read and reread them while awaiting the next one. I’m a frequent traveler to and in Alaska, and your books are so realistic I feel I know the fictional areas, and have driven some of the roads!
I would love to have “Restless in the Grave” in audio to live in my car and be my constant travel companion. Yes, I prepurchased it in Ebook, and couldn’t put my IP2 down until I read it all when it was down loaded, but it would be so wonderful to be able to listen to it while I drive. Please consider me, I’d be so honored!
Dana, I’ll bet money that you are the owner of the white clay Storyteller figurines from the Hopi people. I’ve got a few on my shelf because I love the kind storyteller whose patience lets tiny children climb all over her, dangle from her sleeves and tiny black hair bun, and tugging on her Barbie sized turquoise jewelry. I think this Hopi lady has been loaned a village of kids, and she has become the climbing rock. A fitness ascent. Jackie in the beanstock. Her figure encompasses storytelling of all kinds.
My mom and grandma, and I, three gens of Alaska Native women, can agree that kids we knew didn’t sit quietly while being taught legends or beaded handwork, they were busy little minds and hands. There were exceptions…I wasn’t one of the listeners until my thirties, then I wanted to hear more stories, learn more basketry. At one time, similar to Kate, I had 11 great aunties to learn from. Most of them are gone now, the stories quieted. In the family photos I see a row of 11 fearless native women who gracefully brought their lives through the changes of Alaska, mostly without resentment. I look through the eyes of the Hopi storyteller, and see a familiar look of hope for the future. A closer look….my brows furrow hard….she is painted with no mouth, but seeing eyes. Simple, she is speachless and searching until one child will sit and listen to her story.
Of the five senses, hearing is one that will foster survival.
On a less serious note, I adore the story of the toys…or, as it is more properly called, TOY STORY. My favorite scenes are from a rescue, when Mrs. Potato Head is looking for her lips and ears, as one hand reaches out around her as she squeals out (in a voice that only a potato could project) “HONEY, I CAN’T FIND MY EYE! ”
I have a set of plastic ears that my witty sister gave me. I put them on, and shout “I AM ALL EARS!”. I want to win this audio book, so I can hear more about Alaska and the aunties, from “Cousin Kate” as I call her around my kitchen table.
I stumbled upon one of your books on Audio CD in the library. I checked it out and really wasn’t sure If I was going to like it or not. Now I am Officially hooked on Kate S. and Mutt and the entire village and characters in this series. I have rented every single one that has been available on Audio CD. I love Audio CD’s because I am disabled and suffer from chronic pain and it is hard from me to concentrate on reading a book. When I’m in pain, your books take me away to the amazing world of Kate S. and Mutt. I also enjoy the person who reads the books on CD too. Its like watching a movie…I’m taken into another world and lifestyle which is so utterly amazing, that I can’t get enough of Kate S. mystery/adventures. Restless in the Grave is not available yet at my Library. Not sure if the library has the funds to purchase it or when they will purchase it. I would really appreciate and love a copy of Restless in The Grave. It would make my day. Also, if you requested it, I would donate this copy to the library for others in my community to enjoy. But only if you allow this. Otherwise I would greatly appreciate a copy. I feel like I’m on pause until I can see the next Kate S. and Mutt mystery adventure. Also, I would like to thank you for your amazing Kate S. stories. You have become one of my favorite authors. Thanks for sharing your amazing talent. I also am so amazed with the Alaskan Wilderness. Your descriptions take me right there.. I also love listen to your books every year too. Hope there will be many more Kate S. novels to come. Thanks,. Aloha and Hugs N.
I feel like Kate & Mutt are old friends. They’re both brave and facinating critters (yes, I know Kate’s not a critter!) I was browsing along a library aisle more than 12 years ago when I siscovered A Cold Day for Murder – quite by accident. Now I often wish I could flee Arizona’s hot summers to live in Niniltna
Looking forward to reading or hearing Restless …!!
All set for a Tuesday comment when my husband was rushed to hospital in an ambulance with a suspected heart attack. Fortunately all is well, and after 30 odd hours of tests it’s an itis not a heart attack, but I’m totally out of the ability to ask for anything that isn’t good health.
So, have fun choosing your audio book giveaways for this week, and whilst of course I love Kate and her adventures, let me wish all your commenters good health and happiness this week.
Comments on this post are now closed. Thanks for the great responses, and if you don’t win, try again next Tuesday!