It’s official! Our totally cool and totally free “Your Alaska Online Travel ‘Zine” workshop for writers ages 12-15 will be held at the equally cool Teen Underground center at the Anchorage Loussac Library. Our thanks to the Loussac Youth Services library staff and to East Coast travel writer Jenna Schnuer for this great opportunity, as […]
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Author Kaylene Johnson, a long-time Alaskan who lives in Eagle River, Alaska, will be featured at the 49 Writers First Friday book signing tonight at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 427 D. St. in Anchorage from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. She has written several books about Alaska including A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My
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Happy holidays! In the sidebar to the right, we’ve left a couple of electronic gifts for you: a link to a podcast of Deb’s “Crash Course: Characters” (powerpoint slides included) and a link to a post by Dana Stabenow about online book promotion. Last-minute shopping? You might consider a writing center gift certificate, or membership for a
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Our fundraiser book bags (five books, logo tote, $80) will continue to be on sale through the holidays, and the next two people who order will receive, as part of their surprise mix of books, one guaranteed addition: The Winterlake Lodge cookbook by Alaska chef Kirsten Dixon, signed. If that sounds like a great book to keep or help
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July 1 is a big day at 49 Writers. First, it marks the end of our members-only registration for the 49 Writers Tutka Bay Retreat featuring David Vann. This retreat is an incredible value – two nights at a lodge where rates normally run $800 per night plus four instructional sessions with one of the
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Thanks to all who participated in our 49 Writers online book club discussion this week of Nancy Lord’s Rock, Water, Wild. We enjoyed an engaging dialogue with one another and with the author. Looking ahead, the next online book club discussion will feature David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide. Thanks also to all the children’s
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“I am sorry to say that ordinary scientific books are in nearly every case written by men who have no capacity to explain anything.” Anchorage author Bill Streever set out in part to defy this assertion by Thomas Edison, writing a book on ordinary topic that has proved to be anything but ordinary. In fact,
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There’s still time to pick up a copy of Cindy Dyson’s And She Was so you can participate in our online book club discussion September 28 and 29. We’ll be running an interview with Dyson next week. And speaking of interviews, we’ve got plenty of good ones coming up: Bill Streever, author of Cold; Mattox
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Nancy Lord’s review of Bill Streever’s Cold — with its hint of understandable envy about the general subject, which so many of us would have enjoyed writing about — reminded me of all those books we think of authoring, but don’t. My favorite unwritten book taught me some important lessons. In the summer of 1993,
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What brilliant marketing–to publish a book that celebrates cold, in the middle of a hot summer. In those parts of the world where people actually vacation (as in relax with a book) in summer, as opposed to Alaska where we do the opposite during our all-too-brief go-for-it season, what could be more pleasurable than reading
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