Cyber shopping is tough. Last night I spent two hours spinning from website to website, pouring through reviews, weighing options and prices, adding and deleting items from carts at various vendor sites. Result: I’ve bought nothing yet. But today is Cyber Monday, the web’s response to Black Friday, and I’ve got almost sixteen hours left. […]
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Back in business after a 48-hour internet/cable outage, with a reminder that we’re now opening slots for our 2010 featured authors. We’d like one featured author each month, responsible for four posts per month. You can write about anything that would be of interest to our readers. We also run an author photo plus a
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Dear 49W Friends, I’ve been back from Italy for well over a month, so this second postcard is pretty late in arriving. But I thought it might have a Thanksgiving feel. Hopefully these photos will add to your appetite over the next two days. One of my aims in conducting in-country research for my novel-in-progress,
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Anyone who knows me—-and I assume there are a few of you in that category reading 49 Writers—-also knows that for most of the past decade I’ve been an absentee Alaska resident. When I started freelancing out of Juneau in 1995, I rarely worked in town, which meant that for virtually every job I’d board
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Poet Emily Wall lives in Juneau, where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Southeast. She will join the faculty at the 2010 Kachemak Bay Writers Conference. Salmon Poetry, an Irish publisher, has produced Freshly Rooted, an artful collection of your poems. I understand they’re publishing another poet with
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Tired of all the press on Sarah’s new book? We got some nice press of our own this week at 49 Writers. This month’s Alaska Magazine has a nice large write-up on our Ode to a Dead Salmon contest, including a big ugly picture and a quote from the winning entry, with a link to
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Bill Sherwonit will be joining us as featured author next month, but in the meanwhile, he’s keeping the news coming — and this item is timely and important. Thanks to Bill for allowing us to crosspost this, which originally appeared on Bill’s Anchorage Daily News community blog. I was sitting in a favorite café this
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Thanks to Bill Sherwonit for passing on this news item from the Associated Press:“An independent bookseller in Sarah Palin’s home state is donating the proceeds he makes off her book to a group that is among the biggest critics of the former Republican vice presidential candidate. Don Muller owns Old Harbor Books in Sitka. He’s
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Two weeks ago, in my first post, I mentioned that in 1996 I attended a conference where I met John Crawford, of West End Press, which started a process that led him four years later to publish my first full-length collection, Nome Poems. I also mentioned that prior to that meeting, I’d self-published a chapbook
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Continuing our series of 49 Writers Publisher Interviews, we check in with Kent Sturgis, president and publisher of Epicenter Press, Inc. Sturgis is a two-term former president of the Independent Book Publishers Association, a national trade organization. He was born and raised in Fairbanks, where he edited the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner during the pipeline boom.
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