Calling all Buffy fans, the First Evil's blog is a riot. Great way to start a week no matter how much crap you've got on your Monday plate. All credit to M'e at Mysterious Galaxy for the heads up.

Here's the column I wrote for Alaska magazine a year after 9/11.

Wreck Rights, a Kate Shugak short story that takes place between A Grave Denied and A Taint in the Blood, has just been republished in The Widow of Slane, a collection of novellas edited by Ed Gorman and Marty Greenberg. I didn't know it was a novella until today.

The Danamaniacs will be chatting on Tuesday, September 19th, 9pm Eastern/5pm Alaskan. You have to be a member to log in to the chat room, don't forget.

Photo is of the sweet ship Gwylan, the sailboat I've been crewing on this summer. I'm in the stern. Actually, we're all in the stern, except for the captain, whom we have banished below.

This will be one of the last updates to this blog in its current format, because the resident geniusi up at Gere/Donovan are busy on a redesign that is going to knock your eyes out. Watch this space!

Go to the Iditarod website or Susan Butcher's website to read about the legendary Alaskan musher who died in August.
Go here to read Mitch Albom's obituary.

Check out the Dana Review of Books if you've run out of Kate Shugak novels.

Go here for instructions on how to play Snerts. You'll need a minimum of four players and a tube of Neosporin.

Later,
Dana

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People keep asking me to design a quick and dirty tour of Alaska to hang their vacation on. Go here to read my February 2003 Alaska itinerary column in Alaska magazine, and start planning your trip.

Signed copies of Blindfold Game are still available at these stores:

Minneapolis
Once Upon a Crime

Seattle
Seattle Mystery Bookshop

Saturday, September 30, 1pm
Jumping Genres
Nevada Barr, Laurie King, Val McDermid, Dana Stabenow (M)
The thrill of the stand-alone and the agony of the series. How to make the break from series fiction to stand-alones, and why on earth would you?

You heard it here first: Register for Left Coast Crime 2007, February 1-4 in wonderful Seattle. See you there!

And don't forget to register for Bouchercon 2007 in Anchorage, Alaska, September 27-30, 2007. Oh quit whining, it's after tourists and before snow, and the bears will still be up.

Download the podcast of my January interview with David Leisure.

Go here for an article about me and Blindfold Game in the Homer News.

Go here for the webcast of my January 10th presentation at the Library of Congress.

Go here for the cybercast of my presentation at the National Book Festival in October 2004.

For the full blog of my trip on the USCG cutter Alex Haley, go here.

Check out the Alaska Sisters in Crime monthly newsletter from the links on the Bouchercon 2007 website.