Everything you ever wanted to know about talent, and about — ahem — “coupling” as the subtitle of “Bonk” puts it. In two books. (Well that covers almost everything, doesn’t it?) These fascinating books, by authors Dan Coyle and Mary Roach, just came to my p.o. box as donations to our Book Bag fundraiser. For […]
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Turkeys are cooking, but here at 49writers, we’re launching our next online experiment and we’re hoping you’ll take part and help spread the word. On Black Friday, we’ll begin our first ONLINE HOLIDAY LITERARY AUCTION, which will run for 10 days at ebay. This is the second part of our paired online fundraisers which support
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“… short stories telling of the life in the northernmost state … unique and original … a sign that Ravicz is an author to look out for in the future.” — Midwest Book Review Two of our favorite things about being part of this collaborative blog: The chance to interview and read about writers we
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What do Anne Coray, Anne Caston, Peggy Shumaker, Mike Burwell, Derek Burleson, Sandy Kleven, and Elizabeth Bradfield all have in common? They’re all Alaska poets or poets with strong AK connections and they all have books in our Fundraiser Book Bags, either donated directly by the poets or their colleagues. (A huge thanks to Peggy
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I could spend the weekend with any one of these six books that just arrived and are being added randomly to our book bag shipments heading out the door or next in line for lucky orderers. The donations are all thanks to Miranda Weiss of Homer, who reached out to these great writers for help
Credit where credit is due: We stole our Book Bag 2010 Fundraiser idea from Ayelet Waldman, the Berkeley author who also happens to be married to Pulitzer prize-winner Michael Chabon. Waldman used a grab bag idea — set number of randomly assembled books, seeded with signed or special editions, sold in a tote bag —
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Jodi Picoult is on board. So are Ayelet Waldman, Michael Chabon, and David Shields. These four renowned Outside authors confirmed just yesterday that they are willing to donate signed books in support of our first fall fundraiser! They join dozens of talented and generous Alaska authors (Anne Coray, Rich Chiappone, and Dana Stabenow are just
