Jenna
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Dana Stabenow:
Mutt is one of my favorite recurring characters in your Kate Shugak series, every book of which I have read and re-read multiple times (well, only one re-read for No Fixed Line so far...). What canines, real-life and/or literary, inspired Kate’s wonderful sidekick?
Dana Stabenow
Okay, this is embarrassing to relate--I've never owned a dog, although I've known a bunch of them. All I can tell you is that Mutt bounced out into the middle of the first chapter of the first Kate Shugak novel and has taken over every scene she's been in ever since.
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Mary
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Dana Stabenow:
My husband has spent the last two months reading the Kate canon, with no other books inbetween. He has noticed the increase in the length of the books, and he also wants to know if you acquired a Word of the Day calendar along the way since he's been looking up words in the latter books of the series? He is on #20, and I've kept my mouth shut with "no spoilers" for two months now! I've been reading Kate since '03.
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