Welcome to David Marusek, our April featured author! David writes science fiction in Fairbanks. His second novel, Mind Over Ship, won the Endeavour Award in 2010, and he is currently working on his third, Camp Tribulation.I’ve spent a lot of time exploring ebooks lately. I’m not exactly an ebook proselytizer, but I thought I’d share […]
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Regular 49 Writers contributor and noted sci-fi author David Marusek sent us this post (note the rapidly approaching deadlines for the giveaway), with more details on e-publishing to come when he is a featured author in April. This week marks not only the launch of three ebooks of mine, but the launch of my own
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Book Bag Fundraiser: New titles are being added each day as new donations continue to roll in. We’re halfway to our goal of selling fifty bags. $80 for a great bag of four to five books. Please order soon and thanks if you’ve already done so! http://www.49fundraiser.blogspot.com/. Coming in less than one week: our online
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On Friday November 5th from 5:30 – 7:30 pm, Steve Kahn, The Hard Way Home and Anne Coray, Violet Transparent, will be signing for Raven’s Place First Friday series at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art, new home of the 49 Writers First Friday book signings. See Steve Kahn’s interview with Mariah Oxford right here
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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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David Marusek will be coming to the 49 Alaska Writing Center to teach a two-evening intensive about Flash Fiction, Nov. 9 and 10 (6:30 to 9:30 pm). That’s just under a month away, but we only have five seats left, so if you’re looking for a fun class that will challenge the way you write
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“It is, I hope, more than an adventure novel or a study of an obsessed character. It’s the human personality under every kind of duress, physical, emotional, social and spiritual.” This from author Tanyo Ravicz, who homesteaded in Kodiak and returns every summer, on his novel A Man of His Village, winner of the Eric
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There’s still time to pick up a copy of Nancy Lord’s Rock, Water, Wild and join in our 49 Writers online book club discussion on March 1 and 2. Watch for an interview with Nancy next week. Looking ahead, David Vann, whose Legend of a Suicide we’ll be discussing (with input from the author) here
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“Flash fiction offers me the equivalent of instant gratification,” says Fairbanks author David Marusek. “Also, the shorter the length, the more puzzle-like the writing becomes, and I find that rewarding as well.” Knowing Marusek will present on flash fiction at a retreat in Fairbanks next month, we asked him to tell us about the genre.
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Now that the new year’s well underway, we’ve opened nominations for our next 49 Writers online book club discussion. We’ve got a nice list going (Blonde Indian; The Yiddish Policemen’s Union; Rock, Water, Wild; The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife; A Land Gone Lonesome) but if you have another title to add, there’s still time before I
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