Kate Shugak, Alaskan PI television series

This special edition of the Roadhouse Report is to let you all in on a secret I've been keeping for what feels like years but is really only months. 

Evergreen Films of Anchorage and Los Angeles has acquired the screen rights to the Kate Shugak novels, with the intention of making a television series.

As you have all heard me say too many times to count, I was determined to sell the screen rights only to someone who would shoot the series in Alaska. Specifically, to someone who would put Alaska, not British Columbia or central Washington state, right up there next to Kate and Mutt.

Well, that someone found me.  Mike Devlin made his bones in Silicon Valley software, came north and fell in love with Alaska, and is now pursuing a second life in film production. I don't know him that well yet, but my gut says he's got a good heart and a hard head, along with the muscle and the determination to make this happen. He says, and I'm quoting verbatim, "There's no reason we can't film the whole series in Alaska."

Read more about Evergreen in Alaska in the Anchorage Daily News story here.

The press conference announcing the deal was this morning at 11am, and Mike and I will be on Hour 3 (aka 4pm) of Dan Fagan's radio show today.

A Night Too Dark news

Given the above, I'm a little behind on A Night Too Dark activities. 

Go here to read an excerpt. 

Go here to join the Danamaniacs, who are descending en masse on Scottsdale on February 16th to attend the pub day party in the Grand Ballroom of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel (I just love saying that).  If you're coming, don't forget to reserve a copy of the book here.  We ran out of books last year and I don't want to send anyone home disappointed.

I'll be posting the first chapters and giving away ARCs beginning November 1st, as posted to my website and announced in future editions of the Roadhouse Report.  Stay tuned!