It’s time once again to choose a book for the 49 Writers online book club discussion. Here’s how it works: we take nominations through your comments, then poll to select a book. Those who choose to participate have approximately one month to read the book so they can join in an online discussion; this time, […]
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Time’s running out: our Ode to a Dead Salmon contest ends at midnight tomorrow, Saturday, August 15. Check out the great entries we’ve received so far and send yours to debv@gci.net. It’s fun! It’s free! It’s easy! And you’ll have a chance to win an autographed Ray Troll t-shirt of your choice! Finalists will be
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Hey. Ned here. Good to meet you. I’ve hit this blog many times since it was born, and I’m glad for the chance to plant some words into it. First, an intro: I earn all my money from writing. I’m a half-time science writer for the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and
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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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Continuing our series on small and regional publishers, we bring you this interview with Carla Helffrich, editor at McRoy and Blackburn. Tell us about McRoy and Blackburn. Who started it? Why? Which books were among the first you published? What niche do you hold in the marketplace? It’s all my fault…I was the (first real)
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What motivated you to start the Guild? Three things. I belong to the Palm Springs Writers Guild in Palm Springs, California. They have been through startup, turmoil and then success with 200 members. I attended Kachemak Bay Writing Conference in 2007 to see what it was about and realized many of the 165 people they
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The stinky entries for our Ode to a Dead Salmon contest keep rolling in. Remember you’ve got 8 days to submit your entry to debv@gci.net for a chance at an autographed Ray Troll t-shirt of your choice. Also, check out our 49 Writers Northern Favorites shelf in the sidebar to the right. We’ve added several
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Light news day add-on that I had to mention, following our own round of argumentative posts here: Moonrat over at Editorial Ass turned me onto this short JacketCopy post about six famous literary feuds. One example: Although F. Scott Fitzgerald helped Ernest Hemingway get “The Sun Also Rises” published, Hemingway later had no problems criticizing
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I have never blogged before, so forgive me if I’m not good at this. (I sound like an innocent farm boy on his first trip to the brothel. Promise not to laugh at me, please!) Bill Sherwonit’s recent post discussed what seems obvious to everyone around him: the fact that nobody wants to be called
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This week, we’re getting ready to put up a guest post we received via email. It’s sharp, funny, thoughtful, and (in my opinion) a great read. But it has also forced me to consider — make that, learn — our editorial policies. Even I had forgotten what those policies actually were (Deb was the one
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