Source: Hugh Howey, “The 7K Report,” authorearnings.com Recently, I read an Associated Press story about how changes in health care laws have given workers a new sense of freedom, a way out of jobs they’ve stuck with primarily because they feared losing insurance benefits. Two American workers were held up as examples of this phenomenon. Both plan […]
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Dana Stabenow & Deb Vanasse It was great to see a classroom full of writers at the Anchorage Museum on Wednesday night, all eager to learn more about Independent Publishing Options for Writers with Dana Stabenow and Deb Vanasse. Dana shared the wisdom she’s gleaned from more than 20 years of traditional and now epublishing;
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If you’ve spent any time at all researching agents, publishers, and submissions guidelines, you’ve no doubt encountered one phrase that appears more than most: high concept. What does that mean, exactly? Let’s start with an example that I recently came across in, of all places, the thirty-second thumb-through I give the Costco magazine before I
“Brevity, brevity, brevity,” Mrs. Jovanovich said to me in high school senior English. “What’s wrong with brevity, brevity, brevity?” “I dunno,” I replied. “It needs to be said only once.” “Oh, yeah… ” Man, was I stupid. Bless her heart, Mrs. J. must have seen something in me nobody else did: a break in my
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Evan gulped his coffee and waved his cup at two fishermen walking by. He stretched his arms above his head, one at a time, groaning. “Lots of people here get by off the grid. They barter for food, work in exchange for getting what they need, no records, no government, no Big Brother. They hunt
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Following my post on “The Way In: Where to Publish,” a reader wrote with questions so well-articulated that I asked if I might answer in a more public forum. Here, our Q & A: Q: I am so disappointed I can’t be there for your self-publishing seminar. I just read your piece on what happened with Dana (Stabenow) after
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This is the time of year when we shift gears and start looking ahead to the next year of programming and beyond. It’s time to plan a whole new fall season, and we’re considering a variety of ways to provide a strong program of creative writing classes and author events in Anchorage and also in
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Olga Alvord For understandable reasons, cold-blooded slithery snakes are not very common pets. Naturally, Lydia was upset when her son Dima, a college freshman, brought home a small ball python one day. “Here, Mom, meet Vladimir, Vova, for short.” Dima was working on a class assignment about different types of phobias. His project partner, an
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Kim Heacox On a cold November morning distant in my past yet vivid in my mind, I walk across London’s Abbey Road. It takes less than a minute, the same as I imagine it took the Beatles when photographed for their famous album cover. The sun shines bright in a blue cloudless sky. A woman
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It’s spring again on the Cook Inlet. We feel more a part of the seasons, the rhythm of growing and dying. Now snow is dying and black currant buds are plump, waiting to open. Seagulls have returned – their raucous cries punctuate the soft sounds of waves. The ice berm is pocked and rotted, uneven
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