Dana Stabenow
Dana Stabenow
Dana Stabenowis an American author of science fiction, mystery, suspense/thriller, and historical adventure novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 March 1952
CountryUnited States of America
principles essentials stories
Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.
rejection way embrace
To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.
organization matter waste
Why was it that the instant you sent someone a check, no matter how worthy the organization, the first thing they did was ask you for more? Irritating, and a waste of the money she had just sent them.
jobs stupidity population
Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.
rewards
The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.
agents literature fiction
Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.
cyberspace screws ifs
If cyberspace can screw with you, it will.
library steps apes
The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.
mean oklahoma iowa
Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?
needs body lasts
We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin
party divorce political
When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.
dollars inclined million people
I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
alaska cabin ecstatic foot native step woman writer
I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
maybe signing unless
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.