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As an author, one of the best parts of my job is hearing how much readers like my books. I just got this review from About.com’s birding specialist, Melissa Mayntz, and it really has me smiling!  Her conclusion especially warms my heart:

“Fans of the Bob White Birder Murder mysteries will be happy to know that Falcon Finale is not a finale to the successful series, but as one of the book’s character’s notes, “we all want to be important, to claim a little bit of time and space – history – for ourselves.” With Bob White and her other memorable characters, tangled storylines and conscientious treatment of birding issues, Jan Dunlap has certainly done that, and this book is one more delightful insight… ...more...

I can’t believe it. It looks like a Scott’s Oriole has been sighted in Duluth, MN, just three hours from my home. What’s unusual about that is that a Scott’s Oriole is a bird native to the southwest. What’s even odder (is that an oxymoron?) is that my Bob White characters see a Scott’s Oriole in my most recent release, Falcon Finale, when they go to Arizona. And now they could have stayed home and seen one right here in Minnesota!

This has happened to me before with these books: bird events that echo my book events. For the first book, it was an influx of Boreal Owls (normally very hard to find) in northern Minnesota the winter after the book The Boreal Owl Murder debuted in September 2008… ...more...

The Raven itself will be at Jan’s book launch party for “Falcon Finale”.