SEPTEMBER 2004 NEWSLETTER
This issue's photo is of my friend Kathy in her natural habitat. This
is the price you pay when you fish too late, you wind up cleaning them
by moonlight. That's Cook Inlet in the background and the southern end
of the Kenai Mountains on the left horizon, if you squint.
The author tour for A Taint in the Blood, the fourteenth Kate Shugak novel, follows below. For additional events, check "Author Sightings" on the website.
September 11, Anchorage
Twice Told Tales, 2pm-4pm
September 24, Seattle
Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 12Noon-1:30pm
October 6, Old Greenwich, Connecticut
Just Books, Too, 7pm
This is a ticketed event, and I'll be appearing with Lea Wait.
October 7, Boston, Massachusetts
Kate’s Mystery Books
October 9, Washington DC
National Book Festival
Mysteries and Thrillers Pavilion on the Mall, 10:45am-11:25am
I'm between Robert Parker and Clive Cussler, and no, I'm not making this up.
October 9, Baltimore
Mystery Loves Company, 7pm
October 26, Scottsdale
Poisoned Pen, 7pm
It's the return of the Dana-and-Diana Show! Yes, I will be appearing with Diana Gabaldon.
October 28-30, Tempe
World Fantasy Conference
I'll be on a panel discussion with Diana Gabaldon and Laurie King
called "From Aragorn to Buffy: the twentieth-century transmogrification
of the fantasy hero."
October 30, Phoenix
NAMI Mystery Authors Luncheon, with Michael Connelly and Nevada Barr
Kierland Westin Resort
This is a benefit luncheon for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Email from Known Reader Jinny Ayers of Portland, Oregon: "I have a
quote to share with you. It perfectly fits Kate. Unfortunately I don't
know who said it. It was sent to me by an artist friend who is
embarking on a new venture at age 60+. "Life's journey is not to arrive
at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "Holy shit! What a ride!"
To which I replied, "The hell with Kate, that's my motto!"
(But thanks anyway, Jinny.)
How my mother and Josephine Tey led me into a life of crime
is an essay explaining how I came to write crime fiction, written at
St. Martin's Minotaur's request and posted on their website.
Click here to look at cool pictures of Seldovia, my home town.
Go here to join the Danamaniacs, a fun bunch, if not entirely sane...
To read the June newsletter, go here.
If you are unable to get to any of the events listed above, you may
order copies of Kate14 and the two anthologies I edited this year
through these links:
Powers of Detection
A Taint in the Blood
Wild Crimes