Cindy Dyson

Those Who Can, Teach

I’ll admit that I never really nailed all of the grammar rules until I became a high school English teacher.  I firmly believe that the best way to learn something deeply is to teach it to someone else. Good teachers spend time considering their subject from all angles, pulling it apart, and putting it back […]

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Deb: The Good Query

“It should make you panic and ask yourself if the book can live up to this awesome query.” ~Cindy Dyson The Good Query My first book or two had already been published before I began to study in any real depth how a query letter should work. I was lucky – a friend’s editor picked up my

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Deb: And now for a word from one of our instructors…

Wondering what to expect from a class called “Writer v. Grinch:  The Fine Art of Micro-Editing,” with instructor Cindy Dyson (And She Was)?  Dyson, pictured here in her best Grinch get-up, stopped by with a clarification that’s too good to leave buried in our comments section: …I’m thigh deep in my yarn and macramé Christmas projects at the

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Deb: Take Two, Cindy Dyson

Dyson shooting a black powder rifle at Bannock, a Montana ghost town. “If everybody loves you, then you probably aren’t that interesting.” That’s some of the best author advice I’ve heard. It comes from Sharpie-art wearer, code-lover, Marmalade Sunlover, Alaskan-at-heart Cindy Dyson. On September 21, 2009, we first ran this interview with Dyson, whose novel

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Ela: 49 Writers Weekly Round-up

Andromeda Romano-Lax and Deb Vanasse will be talking about the 49 Alaska Writing Center at the next Alaska Professional Communicators’ Luncheon, Thursday November 4 at 11:30, at Kinley’s Restaurant. Lunch is $19 for guests, $25 for members. The APC website has details. If you read us regularly, you may recognize our upcoming courses: Flash Fiction

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49 Writers weekly round-up

Thanks to all who participated in this week’s 49 writers online book club discussion of And She Was, and especially to author Cindy Dyson for joining in. We batted around some fascinating ideas. Andromeda will take charge of our final book club discussion for the year; watch here for details in the weeks ahead. And

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