Having published a dozen books, I’ll let you in on a little secret: I don’t love them all equally. Don’t get me wrong. I worked hard on each of my books, and I’m not ashamed of any of them. But some are real labors of love, including a book I just finished drafting, a nonfiction […]
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“What do you mean you put the house up for sale?” Sam set down his briefcase. “I listed it with the realtors.” He turned to me with his brightest smile. “I handed in my resignation today.” My mouth gaped open. I stared at my husband as if he’d grown a second head. Before I could
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The board of 49 Writers is delighted to welcome two new members from Juneau, Joan Pardes and Katrina Pearson. Board president Don Rearden speaks for all of us when he says, “We’re excited to add Joan and Katrina to our ranks for so many reasons, including the incredible breadth of experience and knowledge they’ll bring
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Whatever your opinion about the online giant Amazon, it’s hard to dispute this recent statement by founder Jeff Bezos: “Amazon is not happening to book selling. The future is happening to book selling.” As the future happens, discoverability and social proof are two words you hear a lot. These concepts have always been part of
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Continuing our December series of the most popular guest author posts of 2013, we are pleased to share one of Amy O’Neill Houck’s October posts that struck a chord with our blog followers. On Deadlines and Risk Taking This past weekend, I participated in the Juneau Douglas Little Theatre’s 24-Hour Miracle. It’s a mini theatre festival
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Requiem for the Kuskokwim It is cold and windows rattle with razors and hooks. Dread permeates light moments like a mean dog tied to a stove. Foreign to the territories, with tendered immunity, you walked through wild like a wraith. Jingling coins, coining jingles, sure to find another word for snow. Happy, you floundered there,
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Still Life With Vegetables Not a tradition. Yet. Or is it a one-time shot where initial conditions of dirt (a continuous factor) and H – 2 – O from the sky combine to produce magnificent roots that achieve colors like vermilion, creamy buckskin, and opaque amber. Colors that I cannot shake, the firmness of flesh
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Invictus BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this
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Thank you to Marybeth Holleman for her absorbing reading and craft talk last night at Great Harvest Bread Company–and for bringing the important life’s work of Gordon Haber to a wider audience, when it could have so easily been consigned to obscurity. The research of this determined and passionate scientist found its way to an
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My daughter was in the shower last week when I heard the sounds of whistles and beeping on a nearby road, just down from our very basic budget hotel in Phuket Town, Thailand. From the third floor I peered through a door out onto the cluttered rooftop, and could make out the stream of traffic,
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