Lessons that Cross Genres from a Writer Who Leaped into Suspense Fiction by Andromeda Romano-Lax
Next week, my first suspense novel, The Deepest Lake, will be published. It’s my sixth novel and a big departure from my previous genres of ...
Andromeda/Your Turn: The purpose and joys of rereading
Yesterday, I wrote about revision. Today, I want to know what you think about rereading. Several times recently I’ve come across this quote: “Curiously enough, ...
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It was practically a three-way tie, so congrats to all three of our write-a-thon participants who were brave enough to share works, including works-in-progress. A ...
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Andromeda: When to burn or bury, when to revise again, with a nod to Jeffrey Eugenides
We all know there is no single way to write a novel. There are quick-drafters and slow-revisers, people who sweat every word but are basically ...
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Leslie Hsu Oh interviews Howard Blum: The Floor of Heaven
In June, best-selling author and two-time Pulitzer nominee, Howard Blum will keynote the second annual writer’s conference in Skagway, North Words Writers Symposium. Scheduled to ...
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My Alaska Home: A Guest Post by Ken Waldman
These days when people ask me where I’m from, I answer by telling a story. The quick version: officially an Anchorage resident, I left in ...
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Say It Ain’t So, Joe: A Guest Post by Cindy Hardy
Eliot says, “April is the cruelest month,” and on Saturday, April 16, long-time Alaskan poet, Joe Enzweiler, died in hospice in Cincinnati, Ohio, surrounded by ...
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Ela: 49 Writers Weekly Round-up
A big thanks to John Morgan and Kelsea Habecker (pictured above) for a wonderful evening of poetry at our April 16 Synergies/Still North Reading and ...
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Andromeda: Tutka Bay, Dani Shapiro, and watching spring arrive
A treat this morning: I gave myself some online blog-reading time to get to know Dani Shapiro, the memoirist and novelist who is leading our ...
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