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June 2009

“Warm and getting warmer”: conference report from Nancy Lord, back from Victoria B.C.

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Thanks to Nancy for this; continuing reports from all conferences still welcome! Quite a number of Alaska writers address, in one way or another, the Alaskan environment. We’re not all conventional “nature writers”—whatever that label implies—but it’s hard to ignore the influence of big spaces and wildlife on our experiences and imaginations. A number of […]

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Alaska Book Festival Highlights

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UAF’s third annual Alaska Book Festival got off to a great start with an authors reception, complete with wine, tasty appetizers, and live music in a section of the Rasmuson Library. Plenty of authors, both local and festival invitees, were in attendance. I caught up with Jane Haigh, Elyse Guttenberg, Yelena Matusevich, and Nicole Stellon

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49 writers weekly roundup

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As we speak, the Kachemak Bay Writers conference, Alaska Book Festival in Fairbanks, and Valdez Theater Conference are all underway, so non-conference happenings are quiet out there. Or maybe I’m just not as talented as Deb at digging up end-of-the-week news for you. Deb is the half of 49W who does this Friday feature week

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Your Turn

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I know: the weather is gorgeous, and why should you be at your computer? But if you ARE, let me remind that we’re going to continue to devote the next several Wednesdays to letting readers contribute your own thoughts and comments about writing conference wisdom and other bits of experience or inspiration you’re gathering this

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And these two intriguing tidbits from an FSB Associates book marketing letter I occasionally read: 1. The Web has become an explosive medium for advertising and promoting many things, especially books. As a primary resource for information, “going online” is now second nature to most people, and everything can be found there. Social networks have

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Got advice?

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Maybe it’s getting an eensy-weensy bit better, but overall the economy sucks. Which means it’s not such a great time to be shopping a book. Agent Nathan Bransford, one of the few bloggers I read regularly, recently put it like this: “. . .there are very few sure bets in this business. So editors have

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Living Alaskan

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You’re from Alaska? There’s an upside and a downside to the question, as anyone who has lived here for any length of time will attest. Here, featured author Dana Stabenow weighs in on both. For years I tried to get an agent because “everybody” told me that the way the publishing game worked was you

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