It’s easy to see why authors compare launching their books to birthing a baby. The gestation period between signing my contract and publishing my memoir, Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters was precisely nine months. The sleepless nights as I tossed and turned before the book’s release were as constant as they were during […]
A few months before publishing my memoir, I was drowning in book-related expenses. And while some of them were discretionary—contests, book marks and cards, shipping of the paperbacks I wanted to sell directly during events, and website upgrades, to name a few—they seemed important to my book’s success. I considered a second job, but didn’t
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A crazy thing happened the other day. When I catch my students writing language similar to the previous sentence, I often ask them to think of the word “thing” as a great opportunity to replace a word with little meaning and instead insert words that reveal specific details, clarity, passion and power. Sometimes, however,
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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Spend a little time around published authors and you’re certain to hear this common lament: Regardless of how you publish, it’s tough to get your book noticed. Once the launch window passes—generally within three months (or less) of the book’s release, reader and publisher interest wanes. Authors are a tenacious bunch, committed to seeing a
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If you’ve published a book, either the traditional way or on your own, you know what I mean by business creep: the way the business side of writing, especially promotion and marketing, can take over your life. For as much as we hear about buzz, there have to be limits to what we’ll do to
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Christine Byl at a reading event; photo by Mollie Foster Near top the list of my greatest riches is the gang of artists I call friends: poets and painters, musicians and quilters, collagists and photographers. Our conversations, across medium and genre, stimulate me to consider the world at angles skew to my default impulses, and
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Miranda Weiss will be appearing at Title Wave Books in Anchorage tomorrow, Thursday May 28, at 7 pm. I’m writing from San Francisco, the third stop on my Tide, Feather, Snow tour. After sunny, balmy days in Seattle and Portland, it is, of course, cool and foggy in the city by the bay. (Did Mark
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Miranda Weiss of Homer is the author of the newly released Tide, Feather, Snow, which Publishers Weekly called “a deeply honest memoir.” She will be appearing at Title Wave in Anchorage on May 28, and we’re very pleased she’s willing to share some of her promotional experiences with 49w, including the making of a YouTube
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When I first moved to village Alaska in 1979, I had no television, no telephone, and of course no internet. Not because I was trying to live pure and simple. The technology just wasn’t available. If those were the good old days, they are gone for good. Will we soon be taking a similar look
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