For December this year, we’ve decided to run the top four most popular posts from our annual lineup of guest authors. Coming in at number 4 is November writer, Sara Loewen from Kodiak, with her final post. If you missed this the first time around, it’s well worth reading. Thank you, Sara, for your thoughtful […]
Most Viewed Featured Author Posts of 2013: #4 Sara Loewen Read More »
Southeastern Alaska. 1898 Ellie stood on the foredeck and watched the lush green coast pass by as the steamship chugged along. The fresh, cool breeze filled her lungs. A pod of killer whales broke the surface of the water in the distance, black and white bodies rolling, tall fins arcing toward the sky, then back
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Years ago, I woke with a vivid image in my head: a large black wolf. I have no idea how that wolf got into my dreams. I didn’t even know at the time that wolves might be black. The image haunted me. I wanted to write about that wolf. Fast forward several years. I opened
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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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