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Also, for fans of Jean Auel, there is another author who is similar. (Some readers think she is better!) Sue Harrison has written a trilogy that takes place in the Aleutian Islands: Mother Earth Father Sky, My Sister the Moon, and Brother Wind. These are excellent books to keep Jean's fans busy while impatiently waiting for her new book.
Kerri Smith
Cedarville, Michigan
Kerri, every once in a great while we can actually answer a BQ properly. Not a "Well, just tell her about Laurence Shames, it's close enough." Not our usual "Gee, what a good question. Let's make up some likely-sounding answer." No, Kerri. Oh, no. When that right question comes sailing in, it's a beautiful thing, a kind of harmonic convergence of question and answer. We live for such moments. This is one.
We won't assume that when you say "authors similar to Carl Hiaasen" that you mean writers of antic, profound/flaky mystery novels. In that category he is a lone wolf. (Actually, Laurence Shames is vaguely Hiaasenesque.) But if you mean authors who live in Florida, well, that's where the harmonic convergence happens.
The book you seek isn't even here yet, but it's coming in February from Putnam: Naked Came the Manatee. It's a serial novel written by 13 Florida writers. Dave Barry started the thing with a chapter about a manatee named Booger, then passed it to Les Standiford, and it kept moving, one week per writer, all the way to Carl Hiaasen who wrote the final chapter.
The book serves as a Luby's cafeteria of Florida writers.
P.S. Thanks very much for the Sue Harrison tip for all those hungry Auel fans. These folks need another book, and soon -- they're starting rumors that Auel has had a stroke, which is not the case at all, according to her literary agent's office.
Nay, the fellows will march no more. The Revolutionary War is finished for them. But Bernard Cornwell's current series, the Starbuck Chronicles, is alive and well and in its fourth volume. If you crave more Cornwell, and you are a Civil War fan, then the adventures of Nate Starbuck may be for you. The four volumes so far are: Battle Flag, Copperhead, Rebel, and The Bloody Ground, which will be coming in paperback from Harper next month.
Our pleasure. The Cajun detective is more popular than ever, providing lots of catch-up reading for new fans: Neon Rain, Black Cherry Blues, Morning for Flamingos, Heaven's Prisoners, Burning Angel, In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead, A Stained White Radiance, Dixie City Jam, Cadillac Jukebox.
Wondering why your favorite writer doesn't call, doesn't write anymore? Inquire with us, and we'll try to find out what's up: Burning Questions, 2501 21st Ave. South, Suite 5, Nashville, TN 37212. Or better yet, e-mail us at Burning_Questions@bookpage.com.
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