Continued from part II. THE FINAL UPLOAD Only a few more steps and my 2002 out-of-print travel narrative, Searching for Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez, would be available to e-readers. I did not use the “Kindle Create” feature, now available at Amazon’s KDP, for example, so I can’t speak to its ability to ease the chore […]
My lifelong obsession with Russia was about to be realized: the book I’d been contemplating for decades and to which I devoted almost three years full-time researching and writing was nearly in hand. My publisher, the University of Alaska Press, announced the release date: June 1, 2017. To accommodate the frenzied demand I was certain
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Spritzing vodka on an Alaska Airlines jet when de-icing fluid couldn’t be found in the Russian Far East. Alaska’s First Lady forgetting her passport on the first high-profile visit to the USSR in 40 years. Launching notes of friendship across the Bering Strait tied to weather balloons instead of messages in a bottle to
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Susan McBeth is part of a group of authors who will visit Anchorage Sept. 24-28, 2016 through an author exchange program sponsored by Adventures by the Book. In partnership with the Alaska Writers Guild, 49 Writers is featuring these visiting authors in workshops at the AWGconference on Saturday, Sept. 24 and also at a members-only salon event on Sunday,
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Dani Haviland writes with this tip, a good opener to invite all blog regulars to submit any of their own latest marketing tips. Dani says:Everyone looks forward to having his or her book autographed by the author. But with the cost of self-publishing and reluctance of agents to sign on and promote new writers, I
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Wouldn’t you be thrilled if your publisher paid for a mailing to one of the nation’s largest target audiences of readers with the tag line THE BEST FIRST CHAPTER YOU’LL EVER READ? The question mark’s mine. The tag line, with “Publishers Weekly” as the sender, comes not as a question, but an assertion. Note that
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