AKSINC MEMBER JESSICA SIMON did an outstanding job at the PP WebCon. She was hosting, discussing, moderating panels, and more only a day after her new book (see below) came out! Awesome!

Many of you have heard the news that Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak series has had its rights bought by Evergreen Films (and you can read it on the livestream from Dana's homepage below). Alaska Sisters in Crime is so thrilled for Dana and what this means for Alaska.

VIDEOS of the Alaska Sisters in Crime's NO REST FOR THE WICKED retreat in Seward Sept. 11-13, 2009, are available on request. There are 5 DVDs in the series. They cover the Saturday morning session with Jessica, Kathy, and Diane; Sue Henry; and Sunday's criminal justice panel. We also have photos available on CD if you want them. Send a note to Karen Laubenstein.

ANNOUNCEMENT! ALASKA SISTERS IN CRIME received the "Alaska Contributions to LIteracy" (CLIO) award for 2007 from the Alaska Center for the Book!!! Dana Stabenow received the award for AKSinC on Oct. 13, 2008.
Anchorage's Loussac Library donated books for the Battle of the Books program to remote village schools in Alaska, bought with funds donated by Alaska Sisters in Crime. We have our bookplate on the inside covers. Exciting!!!

2008 AUTHOR TO THE BUSH BLOG -- Check out Donna Moore's incredible blog about her 2008 Authors to the Bush experience in Aniak and the Kuspik School District. Not only did she fly a plane for about 30 minutes, but she wrote about it and has photos to take you along from the beginning to the end of her two week journey. http://alaskanmisadventures.blogspot.com/

Note - if you need a Web page designed, contact Kimberley Gray (see Members) on here.

Here are photos from Bouchercon 2007. The larger album is at the link for Bouchercon Photos (above). Enjoy!

Mystery Writers of America Information on the Edgar Awards and organization for mystery writers, professionals in the crime writing field, aspiring crime writers, and devotees to the genre. MWA provides scholarships for writers, sponsor MWA:Reads (youth literacy program that used to be Kids Love A Mystery), sponsor symposia and conferences, and membership is open to the public.
Mystery Links (posting link to the links page rather than putting all mystery/crime links here)

WHO Dunnit - dedicated to the arts and craft of the mystery lists mystery conferences and events.
The Mystery News Calendar of mystery-related conventions and events, separated for 2008 and 2009.

The Poisoned Pen bookstore has online ordering and also has a listing of crime conferences and other calendars.

Novels (see NEW REVIEW in FORUM)

NEW: Dana's 17th Kate Shugak novel, A NIGHT TOO DARK, is coming Feb. 16, 2010. As she did last year, Dana will have her book launch at 7 pm at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona. sales@poisonedpen.com to pre-order a signed first edition. Dana is working on the rough draft for THOUGH NOT DEAD, her 18th Shugak novel, in the works, which won't likely be out until February 2011.

Dana is also working on SILK AND SONG about Marco Polo's granddaughter traveling the Silk Road west from 1322 to 1327, China to England. Dana visited the area in western China when she was researching THE SINGING OF THE DEAD. She's traveling to Jerusalem, Venice and Nottingham this winter (2009-2010) and working on SILK.


* Prepared for Rage
* Blindfold Game

* Kate Shugak Series
o Whisper to the Blood
o A Cold Day for Murder
o A Fatal Thaw
o Dead in the Water
o A Cold-Blooded Business
o Play With Fire
o Blood Will Tell
o Breakup
o Killing Grounds
o Hunter’s Moon
o Midnight Come Again
o The Singing of the Dead
o A Fine and Bitter Snow
o A Grave Denied
o A Taint in the Blood
o A Deeper Sleep
* Liam Campbell Series
o Fire and Ice
o So Sure of Death
o Nothing Gold Can Stay
o Better to Rest
* Star Svensdotter Series
o Second Star
o A Handful of Stars
o Red Planet Run

Dana's edited or contributed to many anthologies and as guest author for magazines and journals. She writes monthly columns in Alaska Magazine.

SUE HENRY


Jessie Arnold series

* Degrees of Separation (2008 hardcover)(April 2009 paperback)
* Murder on the Iditarod Trail (1991)
* Termination Dust (1995)
* Sleeping Lady (1996)
* Death Takes Passage (1997)
* Deadfall (1998)
* Murder on the Yukon Quest (1999)
* Beneath the Ashes (2000)
* Dead North (2001)
* Cold Company (2002)
* Death Trap (2003)
* Murder At Five Finger Light (2005)

Maxie and Stretch series
* The End of the Road (Nov. 2009)
* The Refuge (2007)
* The Tooth of Time (2006)
* The Serpents Trail (2004)

Sue also publishes short stories in anthologies, most recently SISTERS ON THE CASE: CELEBRATING TWENTY YEARS OF SISTERS IN CRIME edited by Sara Paretsky.

KATHY HUGHES, LINDA BILLINGTON, MEGAN RUST, DANA STABENOW, BETTY MONTHEI, and Others - foreword by Libby Riddles.
* Alaska Women Write: Living, Loving, and Laughing on the Last Frontier.

DEB VANASSE

NEW: o Picture This, Alaska - Historic Photographs from the Last Frontier 2009
o Off the Beaten Path Alaska with Melissa DeVaughn 2008
o A Totem Tale
o Alaska Animal Babies
o Under Alaska's Midnight Sun
o A Distant Enemy (now back in print!)
o Insider's Guide-ANCHORAGE and Southcentral Alaska 2009

JESSICA SIMON
From Ice to Ashes - A Yukon Mystery

MEGAN RUST
Taylor Morgan Series
o Dead Stick
o Coffin Corner
o Red Line

SANDI SUMNER
o Women Pilots of Alaska: 36 Interviews and Profiles

DONNA FREEDMAN
o Foxy's Tale: The True Story of a Champion Alaskan Sled dog (with Edward White)
o City Smart: Anchorage

Donna was a very active AKSinC member and reporter for the Anchorage Daily News until she moved Outside. She's still at AKSinC when she visits Alaska.


KAREN J. LAUBENSTEIN
Project Archaeology Intrigue of the Past Series
o Discovering Archaeology in Alaska
o Discovering Archaeology in Idaho (pending publication)
o Discovering Archaeology in Mississippi
o Discovering Archaeology in Northern California
edited and rewrote to grade level:
o Discovering Archaeology in New Mexico
o Discovering Archaeology in Idaho
o Discovering Archaeology in Wyoming
o Discovering Archaeology in Oregon
o Discovering Archaeology in Arizona
Princeton Review Smart Junior Series (Random House)
o Archaeology Smart Junior (6-8 grades)
2007 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention program book
Ghostwrote several nonfiction and fictional books. Managing editor for Federal agency quarterly news journal.