JUNE 2004 NEWSLETTER
You'll notice the newsletter has a new name, thanks to
name-the-newsletter contest winner Kymm Stokke. Kymm, email me your
snailmail address and I'll get your prizes out to you, which include an
Alex Haley T-shirt. Everybody else, thanks so much for joining in.
There were over 50 entries, including "The Stabenews," "The Stabenow
Milepost," and "All You Need to Stabenow." I enjoyed reading them all,
but I really loved the idea of everybody standing around the bar with a
beer, talking. Why, that might even be something people actually do,
and not only in Alaska.
The paperback of A Grave Denied
should be in a bookstore near you soon any minute now, which of course
is only the opening act for the main event, which is the hardcover
publication of A Taint in the Blood, the 14th Kate Shugak novel. The magnificent (modest cough) cover is reproduced in this newsletter. To read an excerpt, go here. The release date is August 18th. If you would like a personalized copy, as always you may write to Rachel Dorris at Twice Told Tales here in Anchorage.
Here is Le Tour '04 thus far:
Wed, October 6
Just Books, Too
Greenwich, Connecticut
Thursday, October 7
Kate's Mystery Books
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Saturday, October 9
National Book Festival on the Mall
Washington, DC
Tuesday, October 26
Poisoned Pen
Scottsdale, Arizona
More appearances will be scheduled nearer the date, and I will send out a newsletter with an updated list in September.
If you're coming to Alaska and you want to go flightseeing, go with Bald Mountain Air out of Homer. It's an air charter run by Gary and Jeannie Porter, personal friends of mine. I wrote an Alaska magazine column about going bear watching with Gary.
The Danamaniacs will be chatting on June 29th at 5pm Alaska time about Our Alaska,
the collection of essays by and about Alaskans which includes "A Son of
Martha," the one I wrote about my dad. You must be a member of the
Danamaniacs to join in the chat.
My thriller, BLINDFOLD GAME, is in the hands of my agent. This is the
one for which I temporarily joined the Coast Guard, and to read more
about that and see photos from the trip go here.
This is the first book I've written on spec as opposed to on contract,
which means I'm speculating that a publisher will want to buy it. A
thriller, since you asked, is a mystery novel on steroids. In a mystery
novel, Aunt Matilda is at risk. In a thriller, Aunt Matilda's entire
nation is at risk.
