Our Reading & Craft Talk season winds up on Thursday, Dec. 5, 7pm at Great Harvest Bread Company, with “How a Book Found Me,” a presentation by Anchorage author Marybeth Holleman about the experience of writing Among Wolves: Gordon Haber’s Insights into Alaska’s Most Misunderstood Animal. Marybeth will discuss the process of crafting what one reviewer […]
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Happy Thanksgiving! If you write to publish, you know it’s not easy. To create a book that shines can take years. For it to get noticed among the thousands of titles published each day is no small challenge, either. Even so, I wouldn’t want to do anything else, and I’ll bet you wouldn’t either. Here,
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I’ve been setting my alarm an hour or two earlier every day to carve out more writing time. Five days into my new habit, it’s hard to say whether I’m motivated more by word count or by the promise of coffee. As Iris Murdoch said, “One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous
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You know the importance of the first few pages. You’ve been told over and over. If your first few pages don’t captivate agents and editors, they won’t read on. If your book is published, readers won’t buy it unless they love what they read in the sample. Secretly, you think this is unfair. You’ve got
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“Most of this happened when I was a young man and very naive. I really was a member of a rescue team that searched for seven missing climbers on top of Mt. McKinley in the summer of 1967. One man on our team nearly drowned while crossing the frigid waters of the McKinley River. A
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The last 49 writers author event of 2013 will be held on Thursday, Dec. 5, 7pm at Great Harvest Bread Company, when Marybeth Holleman will give a Reading & Craft talk entitled “How a Book Found Me.” The book in question is Among Wolves: Gordon Haber’s Insights into Alaska’s Most Misunderstood Animal, and Marybeth will discuss
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He wandered around the edge of the barn looking for someplace dry. It’d rained eight days without any let and the damp earth had begun to swell and crawl up the base of the building’s walls. His wrist throbbed and stiffened in the cold and his brace did nothing. The pour was endless. Lead falling
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Lost teeth like little pearls, pockets full of rocks and a forgotten butterscotch, smudged handprints on the windows, knee-high hugs—all of this smallness I will miss, certainly, when my wild little boys one day bend down to hug me, mornings their knees bang table legs as they pour gallons of milk into cereal bowls. Navigating
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Parts of Speech The cloud speaks all in sibilance to the moon. To the mountain, it clanks together consonants like old cowbells. All day I have tried to hold still long enough to listen. There is a story in the way my skin unfurls when I’ve locked away industry. It has some of the same
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Rich Chiappone and a writing companion A few days ago, I got an email from Tom Kizzia, saying he was back in Homer after an extended trip that, in part, included events promoting his recent book, Pilgrim’s Wilderness. I live fifteen miles north of town, on the Anchor River, and Tom was checking in to
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