June 2010

On Fact-Checking and Inaccuracies: a guest post by Anne Coray

Anne Coray’s poetry collections include Bone Strings and the forthcoming A Measure’s Hush. She is coeditor of Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment, and coauthor of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. Sometimes we get lucky. Someone points out an inaccuracy in our writing and we come up with a clever way of justifying our

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eBook Wars (Has Print Been Vanquished?): Guest-post by Ben Summit

The significant digital giants have donned their armor and are preparing for battle with their favorite eBook readers. Amazon boasts Kindle, Barnes and Noble claims Nook, and Apple unveiled iPad with a flourish. Now Google is wielding Editions and Borders is beginning its campaign with Kobo. The eBook wars are upon us and given the

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Andromeda and Deb : Raven Place update and potential sale of 415 L Street

Raven Place, our Anchorage writing center/guesthouse, has been up and running for almost a month. By all standards, we feel great about the guesthouse bookings and budget. We’d hoped for 60% occupancy and $8000 in gross income through August, and we’ve almost reached that in bookings – thanks to the hard work of many volunteers

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News too good to wait: Eowyn Ivey’s debut novel sells to Little, Brown imprint

Publisher’s Weekly has broken the news, and our own Eowyn Ivey (blog contributor, 49 Alaska Writing Center volunteer, bookseller, and all-around wonderful person) has confirmed the deal: “Frontiersman reporter who now works at Fireside Books, an independent bookstore in Palmer, Alaska Eowyn Ivey’s THE SNOW CHILD, a saga set in 1920s Alaska, where one evening

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