The person who points out to a business owner that an apostrophe is misused on a sign? That’s me: former English teacher, grammar geek. So it’s no surprise that proofreading matters to me. A lot. Does it matter to anyone else? Absolutely. Most of us spent at least twelve years in school with teachers who […]
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The summer season of literary gatherings is officially underway with the North Words Writers Symposium in beautiful Skagway, Alaska, May 28-31! We look forward to reports from faculty and attendees but early posts on Facebook suggest a good time is being had by all. If you’re there, say hello to 49 Writers board members Katrina
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Mike Doogan At the time of our interview back in 2008, Mike Doogan was a former newspaperman, a current State Legislator, and a novelist with a third mystery released. SKELETON LAKE : A NIK KANE ALASKA MYSTERY is a police procedural woven with three chronological strands, in the 1960s, 1980s, and today. In a starred
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Clouds, rain, wind. Time to go. I hoist my pack. It must weight fifty pounds. Too much stuff. I hike north along the spine of Divide Mountain, in Denali (formerly Mount McKinley) National Park, and begin a steep descent. Ahead and directly below, veiled in wisps of cloud, is Melanie, my wife. A bandana swings
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We stood on top of the Arctic Divide amidst a jumble of sheer cliffs and broken peaks. The wind blew in cold rain squalls and roared across the barren rocks. Bob was excited, but I was uneasy; the mountains were black and cold. The south side of the ridge fell away to a high plateau
After sixteen years and twelve books traditionally published, plus another year of independent and hybrid publishing (two re-released titles, two originals), you’d think that an author like me would be savvy enough not to make many mistakes. You’d think. Sadly, I have so much material for a post like this that I hardly know where
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Our latest literary season comes to a formal close on June 2 with the last spring class, in Juneau, taught by 49 Writers co-founder Deb Vanasse. If you’re in the area and interested in learning more about exploring point of view in your writing, don’t miss “Perspectives and Viewpoints.” Click here for more information and to register.
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Debby Dahl Edwardson Way back in 2008, before Debby Dahl Edwardson’s My Name is Not Easy was nominated for the National Book Award, we interviewed her about her writing process and her passion for “Alaska’s Books for Alaska’s Kids,” now taking shape as an initiative to be piloted in several Alaska school districts next year.
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The VW hippie van smelled of incense and insurrection. Neil Young sang on the tape deck. Issues of Rolling Stone lay about, dog-eared, coffee-stained. The heater blasted on full. The woman driver snapped gum with her big teeth as we rolled south into Utah. In military fatigues and wire-rim glasses, the guy who looked
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It’s a favorite among critique partners: the gotcha game of point of view. To play, you need only a sharp eye for inadvertent shifts in point of view. Top players earn bonus points by tossing around terms like first person peripheral, first person colloquial, authorial omniscience, limited omniscience, free indirect, and free direct. But beyond
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