A few concluding thoughts (with no promise I won’t return to the topic) on the medium we’re sharing at this very moment – blogs, and more generally, the internet. Fascinating especially to Alaskans, who like others in far-flung corners of the world, stand most to gain – and lose – from the medium that has […]
Sara Juday is associate publisher for Alaska Northwest Books, an imprint of Graphic Arts Center Publishing, and the Alaska sales representative for Ingram Book Company. She has worked for Alaska Northwest Books since 1986. I was eager to hear from Sara about the future of regional publishing, the long history of Alaska Northwest Books, and
A couple of weeks ago, I trashed a book. Don’t worry – it was my own. It had a long life in draft form, spanning several years, but it had a fatal flaw that I was never able to fix. I knew it and editors knew it and then a respected agent pointed it out
In a recent LA Times blog post, Carolyn Kennedy quotes two writers who say they physically remove themselves from internet temptations in order to get down to the serious, concentrated effort required to write their novels. One of my theories about Alaskan authors is that we are, in general, folks who are happy being several
IS THE INTERNET BAD FOR WRITERS? Read More »
Thanks to Suzanne Bishop of Homer for entering our most recent contest about favorite or memorable Alaska books. Her guest-post was selected as 1st runner up. I loved what she had to say about finding a less-than-perfect book at the perfect time. Have you ever read a great book at the wrong time? You know,
ARCTIC DAUGHTER by Jean Aspen, as remembered by Suzanne Bishop Read More »
Today Anchorage will be hosting what may be the biggest local Obama rally yet, and today I’m letting you know that by a wide margin, you chose Seth Kantner’s ORDINARY WOLVES as the book we’d like to send Obama. I bought an autographed hardcover copy (at Title Wave, of course) and my weekend to-do list
Ordinary Wolves on its way to Obama! Read More »
“Sarah and Aristotle” by Dan Henry Aside from being shocked at her buffed-up conservative cred, I am wallowing in the rhetorical compost Sarah Palin produced in the vice-presidential debate. The debate coach in me is turning somersaults. I imagine the practice sessions, the feedback, the script, the coaching strategy. Concerning the speaker, Aristotle says, the
Frontier Rhetorician Dan Henry of Haines grades the debate Read More »
Amanda Coyne is an Alaska freelancer, a blogger at Huffington Post, and an APU writing teacher. She has been published in Harper’s, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Anchorage Press, where she was an editor until 2005. She also happens to be a friend. So when word got out that the Palin biography by
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What do book bloggers do all day? Former Alaskan (but still with Alaskan connections) book blogger and reviewer Colleen Mondor posts an enlightening explanation at Chasing Ray . Don’t get any ideas – my day is not at all like hers. When I posted yesterday on style vs. substance, I pointed to Sarah Palin’s convoluted
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