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Dana Cameron

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born

January 01, 1965 in The United States

gender

female

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http://www.danacameron.com/

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genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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I was born and raised in New England and I live in Massachusetts now, with my husband and benevolent feline overlords. Mine is a quiet, fairly ordinary life. I love that because it's what saves me from an overdeveloped sense of paranoia and a tendency to expect the worst. Combined with an eye for detail and a quirky take on life, these traits give me a vivid internal life, one that's sometimes a little nerve-wracking, but very useful for writing mystery and suspense.

My interest in archaeology stems from childhood, where my interest in books and the opportunities I had to travel made me begin to think about cultural differences. The thing I like best about this work is that it is a real opportunity to try and r...more [From the author's own website]

I was born and raised in New England and I live in Massachusetts now, with my husband and benevolent feline overlords. Mine is a quiet, fairly ordinary life. I love that because it's what saves me from an overdeveloped sense of paranoia and a tendency to expect the worst. Combined with an eye for detail and a quirky take on life, these traits give me a vivid internal life, one that's sometimes a little nerve-wracking, but very useful for writing mystery and suspense.

My interest in archaeology stems from childhood, where my interest in books and the opportunities I had to travel made me begin to think about cultural differences. The thing I like best about this work is that it is a real opportunity to try and resurrect individuals from the monolith of history. I've worked on prehistoric and historical sites in the U.S. and in Europe, and like to teach, in the field, in museums, in the classroom, and through writing.

In my first book, Site Unseen, my protagonist Emma Fielding discovers that archaeologists are trained to ask the same questions that detectives ask: who, what, where, when, how, and why. When I started on these books, I realized that archaeology is also good training for writing because research, logic, and persistence are so important to both endeavors.

Naturally, that training worked with the archaeology mysteries--and it also helped with my first short story, "The Lords of Misrule," a historical mystery which appeared in the anthology, Sugarplums and Scandal. But how has it worked when I've tackled subjects as seemingly diverse as werewolves ("The Night Things Changed" in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and "Swing Shift" in Crimes By Moonlight) and noir ("Femme Sole," in Boston Noir)? Easy: it's all about getting into someone else's shoes and walking around for a while. Preferably, getting into (fictional) trouble while you do it. Asking "what if?" and thinking about how culture and subcultures--in addition to personality--shape behavior.(less)

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Average rating: 3.65 · 6,034 ratings · 451 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Site Unseen (An Emma Fielding Mystery, #1) 3.49 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Grave Consequences (An Emma Fielding Mystery #2) 3.46 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Past Malice (An Emma Fielding Mystery #3) 3.70 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Fugitive Truth (An Emma Fielding Mystery #4) 3.75 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	More Bitter than Death (An Emma Fielding Mystery #5) 3.71 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Ashes and Bones (An Emma Fielding Mystery, #6) 3.45 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sugarplums and Scandal (Includes: Love at Stake, #2.5) by Lori Avocato, Dana Cameron, Mary Dahiem 3.78 avg rating — 559 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Wolfsbane and Mistletoe by Charlaine Harris (Editor / Contributor), Toni L.P. Kelner (Editor), Kat Richardson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 4,419 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side by Charlaine Harris (Editor), Steve Brewer (Goodreads Author), Dana Cameron 3.48 avg rating — 687 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Wild Side by Mark L. Van Name, Diana Rowland (Goodreads Author), Tanya Huff 3.00 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“There are days when you wonder why these wretched old tatters of paper run my life. It's just leftover scraps from vanished lives, right? And they seem to control your every waking thought, all of your movements, even how you breathe, sometimes, with the fragile stuff. Your whole life. But then something comes along, a clue or sometimes the solution to a puzzle, and it sets you on fire!”
― Dana Cameron, A Fugitive Truth

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“She was wearing her T-shirt with the bull’s-eye printed over her heart, the one that says, GO AHEAD AND TRY IT, BUFFY.”
― Dana Cameron, Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

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“Gerry, you peed on Weems’s car!” I shrugged. It seemed like the thing to do at the time.”
― Dana Cameron, Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

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