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Andromeda: Quick answers from the PNBA — Alaska longlist nominees

January 20, 2010 / By 49 Writers

Thom Chambliss, executive director of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, provided some very quick answers to our questions yesterday about Alaska representation among PNBA nominees. While there are no Alaska books in the 2010 shortlist, there were some in the longlist of nominees. (And congrats to those Alaska writers!) Thom writes, “Yes, every year a […]

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Deb: Winners

January 19, 2010 / By 49 Writers

If genies granted wishes for books, we’d first ask for quality. Right behind we’d want readers, and for that you need buzz. In today’s mega-marketing culture, most buzz comes from money dumped on celeb authors or books that don’t need it. But there’s a back door to buzz: book clubs and awards. Book clubs pack a double wallop.

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Still thinking about that Chinooker idea…

October 28, 2008 / By 49 Writers

A few other awards with which to compare my/our “Chinooker” idea for a Pacific Northwest regional award, or an Alaska-specific book award: The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Assocation presented six awards in January (none of them to an Alaskan, unfortunately). There were 200 nominees. A quick scroll through past winners reveals that Seth Kantner won one

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Do we need a “Chinooker”? (About literary prizes…)

October 25, 2008 / By 49 Writers

I haven’t yet read the recently announced Booker prize-winning WHITE TIGER, by debut novelist Aravind Adiga. (Have you?) But I have appreciated other recent Booker winners and nominees, which I probably wouldn’t have read except for the publicity and international distribution made possible by the 40-year-old award. I enjoyed Anne Enright’s 2007 winner, THE GATHERING

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