Thank you to the twenty-five wonderful writers and readers who joined us at our inaugural reading and craft talk at Great Harvest Bread Company on Tuesday, on what turned out the be the perfect spring evening. Writer Mary Albanese read from her memoir, Midnight Sun, Arctic Moon, and entertained and informed us with her story of writing the book […]
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Literary experiments (and the tale of a psychology-inspired novel-in-progress) Yesterday, David Marusek gave us a final post on e-books that touched on future publishing models, distinguishing between the scarcity model of yesteryear and the abundance model (to put things in an optimistic light) of e-publishing to come. Today, I’m inviting you to think with me about literary
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I started this series of guest posts about self-pubbing ebooks by citing the statistic that over a million new book titles, most of them ebooks, are published in the U.S. each year. The inevitable question follows—how can my hopeful little ebook stand out in this crowd? I’m still searching for the answer, but I’ve gained
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“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.” Longfellow Whoever came up with that bit about the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow was a writer. I know this for certain because I’ve searched certain craft books only to find that their advice about endings is, and
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A HUGE thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of our 2012 Write-a-thon! We are profoundly grateful to our writers and fundraisers, our donors, our business sponsors, and the wonderful volunteers who came together to stage this event. Altogether 75 people registered this year, with 45 writers raising $7,499 from 219 donors –
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Originally planned for posting tomorrow, we bumped this up because it relates to a special event taking place tonight, April 18. Thanks to Nancy Lord for the review. The University of Alaska Anchorage at the the Alaska Humanities Forum celebrate 30 years of Alaska Quarterly Review’s excellence with a special program Wednesday, April 18, at
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The German edition of Fairbanks author David Marusek’s story collection, ‘Wir waren außer uns vor Glück,’ is a finalist for the Kurd Lasswitz Preis. Wunderbar!A few weeks ago Andromeda wrote an excellent post on the topic of book covers. Publishers, especially the big houses, seem to hold the opinion that cover design is an esoteric
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I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose. Stephen King We all know how characters are revealed: by what they do, by what they say, and by what others say about them. Not a bad place to start, but for the writer it’s not enough. Compelling characters also have self-regard.
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In her memoir Midnight Sun, Arctic Moon, former Alaskan Mary Albanese recalls her journey as a transplant from upstate New York to Fairbanks, Alaska in the late 70’s. Then, just in her twenties and fresh out of college, Albanese responded to her internal longing to move to Alaska. While teaching appeared to be the most
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There’s only one thing on our mind today here at 49 Writers…WRITE-A-THON WRITE-A-THON WRITE-A-THON! Fundraising has really gained momentum in the last few days and we stand a good chance of meeting and exceeding our goal of $6,000. As Friday dawns, we have 44 participants registered for the event and several planning to register on
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