Fellow writers, are you creative enough in titling your books? I’m not, clearly. The UK Guardian reports that Bookseller Magazine is accepting votes for the overall oddest book title drawn from a list of previous Diagram Prize winners in the 30 years this contest has run. Well, you’ll just have to read the whole article […]
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“All of the great forces that motivate people — love, sex, money, power of all sorts, including political power — can make people noble or venal, and the difference between doing the right thing and doing the wrong thing is often narrow and, in some ways, inexplicable.” Mike Doogan, Novelist and State Legislator on the
About 13 years ago, shortly after I moved to Alaska, I got a call from George Bryson, a local newspaper editor who was having trouble reaching me. I must have been working on my first or second article for “We Alaskans,” that wonderful and now-defunct Sunday magazine of the Anchorage Daily News, a place where
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I’d spent the week ranting, as I often do, about the lack of book review coverage and general promotion opportunities for writers, when out comes the Anchorage Press Summer Books issue with three thoughtfully written reviews. About Kantner’s Shopping for Porcupine, an essay collection accompanied by photos, reviewer Krestia DeGeorge writes: “The writing here rings
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Starting August 25, I’ll be giving away weekly prizes — including Kaladi coffee, Title Wave book certificates, and copies of The Spanish Bow, to people who leave comments at this site.
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It’s somehow appropriate as the huge midnight parties are gearing up for Stephanie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn (2.4 million copies? 4 million copies? I have trouble with these big numbers.), Oprah is kicking off her list of 100 recommended reads for kids. I have nothing personal against Oprah. I like what she did with Eckhart Tolle,
A strange, shiny disk in yesterday’s sky. Not to worry – it slipped away before it caused any permanent damage. Hmmm…maybe that’s what those dark shades are for? Yesterday brought more big news for Alaska. Sarah breathed a big sigh of relief when Uncle Ted got indicted, diverting the pariahs from chewing and re-chewing news
Duly noted – though a bit late – the twelve-day writing intensive at the University of Alaska Anchorage, ending this week. UAA has wisely developed a low-residency MFA program, headed by Sherry Simpson (you’ll recall I’m a fan). The instensive gives students a chance to interact with over a dozen authors, with each author presenting
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Summer’s squeeze-it-in time up North. I’ve covered a lot of ground these last few weeks – 4000 miles, give or take a few. Great adventures in the Yukon, NWT, and of course Alaska. If you get a chance to drive the Dempster, don’t ask – just do it. Incredible wilderness that surpasses the Dalton by
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