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Andromeda Romano-Lax | All the Colors We Will See: Interview with Patrice Gopo

October 4, 2018 / By 49 Writers

In a review in the Anchorage Daily News, Nancy Lord called Patrice Gopo’s new essay collection, All the Colors We Will See, “a very welcome addition to the open-hearted discussion we all should be having.” When I read the book last month, some essays made me teary, while others sparked family conversations or sent me online, […]

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Are you on an agent hunt or an agent “glimpse”?

September 11, 2018 / By 49 Writers

With few exceptions, nearly all authors and would-be authors are better off with an agent. But getting an agent is notoriously hard—in many cases, as hard as getting published. The problem isn’t the system. And it’s not that writers are lazy. The problem is that many of us are so tired after writing and revising

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Back in Print, Part III: Re-publishing your out-of-print book in digital format, a series

April 11, 2018 / By 49 Writers

Continued from part II. THE FINAL UPLOAD Only a few more steps and my 2002 out-of-print travel narrative, Searching for Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez, would be available to e-readers. I did not use the “Kindle Create” feature, now available at Amazon’s KDP, for example, so I can’t speak to its ability to ease the chore

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Back in Print, Part II: Re-publishing your out-of-print book in digital format, a series

March 28, 2018 / By 49 Writers

Continued from part I Assured, thanks to a simple phone call to my publisher, that the basic rights for my 2002 book, Searching for Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez, had reverted to me, I had other things to consider, like interior design or any other artwork. Unlike the text, I discovered, those weren’t mine to use.

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Andromeda Romano-Lax | Back in Print, Part I: Re-publishing your out-of-print book in digital format, a series

March 20, 2018 / By 49 Writers

Part 1 of 3 My favorite book is the one I’m writing, or even better, the one I plan to write after that. There is nothing more artfully conceived and less commercially sullied than the book that has existed only in one’s mind. Given that I prefer to dwell on my future books, you might

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Andromeda Romano-Lax | Forgiveness, redux

April 6, 2017 / By 49 Writers

We originally published this post on March 7, 2012 It’s about 11 am, and I already have several things to forgive myself for. I intended to get cracking on a novel revision by 9 am. (First draft completed on Dec 31, and two months later, I still haven’t finished even the first round of editing

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Andromeda Romano-Lax | Investing In Yourself as a Writer

October 6, 2016 / By 49 Writers

The wonderful new web design here at 49 Writers prompted me to wonder what Deb and I were blogging about way back when it started, to see whether thoughts from 2008 still ring true today. As it happens, one of my first dips into the memory pool took me to a post during dividend time

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Andromeda: The U-Bend of Happiness for Writers

August 4, 2016 / By 49 Writers

This blogpost is an updated version of a post that originally ran in 2010. With time to kill at various airport newstands this week, my eye was drawn to the current Economist lead story about what they’ve tagged “the U-bend of happiness” — the fact, noticed by economists only since the 1990s, that happiness drops around middle age and

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Andromeda: Illness, Terrorism, and Telling Stories

December 3, 2015 / By 49 Writers

How and why do we tell the stories of our lives? I am currently visiting my mother who is dying from brain cancer, and who is now reduced to short sentences, not all of them coherent. Life is pretty simple now: eating, watching t.v. including news of the latest San Bernardino shooting and the terrorist

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Andromeda/Alaska Writer on the Road: 4.9 Lessons from Isabel Allende

November 5, 2015 / By 49 Writers

I’ve been living a life in Spanish for the last year, and that includes most of my reading. The last book I finished was Isabel Allende’s fascinating, well-structured, and ultimately heart-rending Paula, which wove the tragic story of her comatose adult daughter’s slow deterioration with Allende’s own life story in politically volatile Chile, as well

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