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maps galore

Click here to go to my Flickr page and look at three maps of Kate Shugak’s world. I love maps, and it is my invariable habit always to begin my novels with a clear vision of the place I’m writing about (Ellfive, the asteroid belt, Mars, interior Alaska, southwest Alaska, Mnemosynea). Then I […]

Snerts: File down your fingernails.

Folks have asked for instructions on how to play Snerts.
Snerts is a multiple-player Solitaire game. Yes, really. You need at least four players to make it really fun.
Each player must have a deck of cards, each deck with a back different from all the others so the cards can be returned to each player.
Each player […]

Kate’s Cookbook

The most frequent request I get from you ‘maniacs is for the recipe for Kate’s fry bread. So here you go — and a couple bonus recipes.
Photo is me eating king crab in Nome. Eat your hearts out.
Fry Bread Recipe
Make one batch of white bread. Try the classic on the Fleishmann Yeast website here.
Let rise, […]