JUST ONE BOOK
What if you could write only one book? One shot at your best story? What would it be? What if’s can be silly, but this one’s worth pondering. Heart-driven books are the ones worth writing. And reading.
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Endure
The long-term view — that’s what I’m getting from this week’s announcement of Peter Matthiessen as winner of the National Book Award for fiction. I know little about his prize-winning novel, except that it is a hefty reworking and synthesis of three previous novels. I also just read that the author was nominated twice for
MTS “Words and Pictures” exhibit opens Friday
Whoa, that’s a lot of names — all part of the Words and Pictures exhibit being unveiled this Friday, 5-7 pm, at the MTS Gallery in Mountain View. The exhibit, curated by Hal Gage and Bruce Farnsworth, is an interesting juxtaposition of words that paint mental pictures and pictures that tell stories (darn — I’ve
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WITH A WHIMPER
Poet T.S. Eliot postulated that the world would go out not with a bang but with a whimper. That’s how Alaska Senator Ted Stevens’ political world ended two full weeks after the election, when Anchorage absentee ballots gave Democrat Mark Begich an insurmountable lead over the longest serving Republican in today’s Senate. To whimper is
15 Kate Shugak synopses in under 4 minutes — wow!
Give it to Dana Stabenow — this lady knows how to pitch. The say you should be able to summarize your novel in the time it takes to ride an elevator. Dana can summarize her entire SERIES in that time, and with gentle humor. Watch the Youtube video. The 16th Kate Shugak mystery, WHISPER TO
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This Sarah book has a much bigger advance…
For those of us who thought we might get a break from Sarah on this and other blogs … and for those of us who thought it was too late to make book money off the Sarah phenomenon: Galleycat reports the rumor (emphasis on rumor) that Sarah Palin is being offered $7 million to write
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THE AUDACITY OF ALASKA
Seven million is a big chunk of change for an Alaskan author. Really big. I’d wager it’s bigger than the sum total of every advance paid to every Alaskan author, ever. According to the Canberra Times, seven million is the figure being tossed about as a possible advance by publishers and agents clamoring for Sarah
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Poetry, Prose, Pataky: A Review of Leaving Resurrection by Eva Saulitis
Today we welcome Jeremy Pataky, a new guest blogger who has agreed to supply us with three winter blogposts in addition to this book review. Jeremy Pataky directs the Wrangell Mountains Center, and lives in Anchorage and McCarthy, Alaska. He earned an MFA from the University of Montana. We are very happy to have him
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ALASGLISH
Remember all the flap a couple of decades ago about non-standard English – Spanglish, Ebonics, Yinglish, and the like? In her article “English Die Soon,” Annalee Newitz notes that although 2 billion people speak English worldwide, only 300 million of those speak what could be called “standard English.” Between techno-acronyms and dialectal speakers, what we
ALASKAN AUTHORS WEEKLY ROUND-UP
I love visiting Sasquatch Books in Seattle. They’re always upbeat, positive, and focused on the market. Alaskan titles debut in the spring, but the fall list includes plenty of books of interest to Alaskan readers, including a re-release of The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Bretz’s Flood (what Alaskan can resist a subtitle that includes the
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