Anchorage Glacier Pilots: Mike’s favorite ballclub, former team of Chris Chambliss, Mark McGwire and 18 current major leaguers

The Anchorage Daily News: Mike’s old employer, and even without him the best single source of Alaska news

Anchorage: Alaska’s largest city and Mike’s current home

Bouchercon: The nation’s largest mystery convention, in Anchorage Sept. 27-30

Dana Stabenow: Writer of mysteries, thrillers, science fiction and fantasy, and organizer of the world and everything in it

Epicenter Press: The publisher of Mike’s books of nonsense about Alaska

The Exit interview: What Mike wrote when he quit newspapering

Fairbanks: Mike’s boyhood home, even though there are people there who will deny it

Friends of Mystery: A Portland group gives Mike a Spotted Owl Award for Lost Angel

John Straley: Poet, private eye, Shamus Award winner and, currently, Alaska’s state writer

LitSite Alaska: All about reading, writing and living in Alaska

Mystery Writers of America: National group that gave Mike the Robert L. Fish Award for his first mystery short story, “War Can Be Murder"

Penguin: The publisher of Mike’s mysteries, and the works of such minor writers as Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Dashiell Hammett

Private Eye Writers of America: National group that nominated Mike’s first novel, Lost Angel, for a 2007 Shamus Award

Rep. Mike Doogan: Mike’s legislative page, home to his political rants