As many of you know, I took time off from Kate and Liam to write a stand-alone novel, a thriller called Blindfold Game, to be pubished in January 2006. It's about a terrorist attack on the USA by North Koreans, with the only thing standing in their way the US Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth. Allow me to introduce to you one of my favorite characters, Arlene Harte.

Go here to look at the blog and the photos from my trip on board the USCG cutter Alex Haley, without which I could not have written this novel. [Photo is of the Alex Haley's bow about to plow through some of those seas the Bering Sea is famous for.]

I am now writing A Deeper Sleep, the 15th Kate Shugak novel, to be published in November 2006. A very wrong Park rat named Jerry Deem is acquitted of murder when everyone in the Park knows he did it. A few months later the wife of someone you all know is murdered, and everyone in Park knows he did that, too. Didn't he? Go here to revisit excerpts and look at the map showing the locations of the first fourteen novels.

And before you ask, yes, I will be writing another Liam Campbell novel. I've got an idea for a great plot, which involves Wy traveling Outside to pick up a new airplane in Arizona, only to pick up a charge of murder instead. No publication date for it, as I have yet to write it, and, oh yeah, a publisher has yet to buy it. Go here for a list of the previous Liam-Wy novels in order, excerpts, cover art and other stuff.

I never would have written so much about Kate cooking if I'd known how many of you were going to write asking for recipes. I give up, I've created a Kate's Cookbook page. The first recipe is for fry bread and the second is for baked steak. Other recipes will be added upon request.

Author Sightings
April 2-3, 2005
Oregon Writer's Colony '05 Spring Conference
Newport, Oregon

August 4, 2005
Luncheon speaker, 12noon
Pacific Northwest Library Association
Sitka, Alaska

September 1-4, 2005
Bouchercon 36
Sheraton Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

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