Saturday I run up Flattop with my dog, late in the evening when the sun is setting and the air is filled with that mystery that comes right before dusk. Running up the steep little incline to Blueberry Hill, around the bend and over to the trail leading up to the saddle. The wind so […]
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I happened to be clicking around randomly on just a few of our Alaska writer website sidebar links, and I was pleased to see several exciting Alaska-authored books coming our way. This is not a complete list — in fact, I’m hoping you’ll tell me what I’m missing, whether the forthcoming books are yours or
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Growing up, I read all the time. I read while riding my horse and when I was supposed to be feeding the calves. I read during baling harvest and on the long bus rides to and from school. What I remember more than those books, however, is the first time I connected with an author.
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Are you reading yet? Our 49 Writers online book club discussion begins a mere two weeks from Monday, featuring Cindy Dyson’s And She Was. Mark your calendars and grab a copy if you haven’t already. It’s an exciting time in publishing. Alaskan author Cinthia Richie proved this week that it’s still possible to break into
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This great news just in: Alaska writer and UAA MFA grad Cinthia Ritchie has sold her first novel to Grand Central Publishing, part of the Hachette Book Group USA. Grand Central, formerly Time Warner Books, puts out 275 titles a year, including works by Nicholas Sparks, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Jon Stewart. This has
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First things first: our online discussion of Miranda Weiss’s TIDE, FEATHER, SNOW will open today at about 4 p.m. I’ll start a fresh thread, and all are invited to post comments there through the weekend, until Sunday evening. This is our third online book club, and the way it works as that the moderator (Andromeda,
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Our Mother’s Day Special Concludes. Thanks to participants Eowyn Ivey, Cinthia Ritchie, Marybeth Holleman and Deb Vanasse; full bios are available at the end of Thursday’s Part I post. Having children has given me such a wealth of ideas and emotions to write about. What motherhood has taught me is that there is no perfect
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Our Mother’s Day Special Continues…See Thursday’s Part I for an explanation of how this roundrobin conversation started, and complete bios for Eowyn Ivey, Marybeth Holleman, Cinthia Ritchie, Deb Vanasse, and Andromeda Romano-Lax. I’m afraid I’ll censor myself… I imagined my own son googling me — oh dear Lord! I thought that was a little strange.
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Sometimes I chose the homemade cookies, sometimes I chose the poem. The years following the birth of each of my daughters have been some of my most productive as a writer. By the next year I had no time at all, even for a shower, and everything to say, because I had become a young
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Another installment from the weekend diary of Cinthia Ritchie. 2 p.m. My writing isn’t going well and I know just who to blame: The cats. They perch on my desk, one on either side, like ornery bookends. Their faces wear the expressions of graduate students ready to criticize my work. “Get down!” I order. They
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