Our readers have spoken: the next selection for our 49 Writers online book club discussion is Nancy Lord’s Rock, Water, Wild. Pick up your copy soon, in preparation for our online discussion March 1 and 2. In the meantime, we’ll apply the old arm twist – it shouldn’t be hard – for an interview and […]
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Wait a minute — Title Wave, Anchorage’s biggest indie bookstore, isn’t having author signings? Or just fewer of them? And what kind of books, exactly, will they be stocking? Admittedly, there are changes underfoot and I asked Angela Libal, store manager, to help us sort it out. I think (hope!) the news really isn’t so
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There’s a tight race underway for our next 49 Writers online book club choice. It’s great to see all the interest, with lots of fans for each book. If you haven’t already voted, you can weigh in (once) at our sidebar poll before 5 p.m. Sunday. The online discussion will be March 1 and 2,
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Ed. note from Andromeda: I hadn’t realized Title Wave had made this apparent policy change! I’m still a big supporter of TW and want to find out more. Today, we have Joan Kane’s take on the matter; we invite booksellers and other authors to weigh in… Could it be that Title Wave’s decision to stop
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Thom Chambliss, executive director of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, provided some very quick answers to our questions yesterday about Alaska representation among PNBA nominees. While there are no Alaska books in the 2010 shortlist, there were some in the longlist of nominees. (And congrats to those Alaska writers!) Thom writes, “Yes, every year a
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If genies granted wishes for books, we’d first ask for quality. Right behind we’d want readers, and for that you need buzz. In today’s mega-marketing culture, most buzz comes from money dumped on celeb authors or books that don’t need it. But there’s a back door to buzz: book clubs and awards. Book clubs pack a double wallop.
I never aspired to plankton. But on occasion I suppose we have something in common, in that writers – for good reason – sometimes feel we’re at the bottom of the food chain. Traditional publishing layers agents, editors, marketing departments, sales staff, jobbers, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers between us and our readers. Our advances and royalties
Now that the new year’s well underway, we’ve opened nominations for our next 49 Writers online book club discussion. We’ve got a nice list going (Blonde Indian; The Yiddish Policemen’s Union; Rock, Water, Wild; The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife; A Land Gone Lonesome) but if you have another title to add, there’s still time before I
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Have you checked out the inaugural issue of Cirque? First, there is substantial content by a veritable who’s-who list that includes nonfiction by Jeff Fair, Sandra Kleven, Bill Sherwonit; plays by Nancy Lord and Peter Porco; poetry by the recently departed Marjorie Kowalski Cole, plus Ann Dixon, Ernestine Hayes, Cinthia Ritchie … and that’s just
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Having finished one book and one play while working full time, exclusively nursing an infant through 19 months, and expecting my second baby (due next month), shortcuts to writing space/time have assumed a critical role for me. The ability to get anything written tends to hinge on three things: location, resources, and writing prompts. If
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