Ah, those resolutions. Love them or hate them, there’s no denying that the new year is a chance to start fresh, to make good on a thing or two. In the second of our “Your Turn” year-end features, we want to know one thing you aspire to, as a writer, in 2015. Maybe it’s something […]
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Since we’re first and foremost a community here at 49 Writers, we thought we’d end the year with two “Your Turn” features. Today: As a writer, which particular success has been most meaningful for you this year? Maybe it’s something big, like finishing a book or signing with an agent or publishing a project. But
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Imagine: You write a book. It receives an exceptional top honor. And still, you can’t find it in bookstores across the nation. This is the problem plaguing Barrow writer Debby Dahl Edwardson, whose YA book, My Name Is Not Easy, was a National Book Award nominee. Perhaps you already read the details in the March
She didn’t walk away with the top honor yesterday, but that matters not at all. We are amazed and proud of Debby Dahl Edwardson’s National Book Award nomination for My Name is Not Easy. The winners were:FICTION: Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA) NONFICTION: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern(W. W.
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If you’re like me, you already have your PFD mentally spent on necessities, long before it arrives on October 6. But let’s pretend. If you were to receive an Alaska PFD payment of $1174+ and had to spend it only on writing and/or reading splurges, what would they be?Here’s how I’d parcel it out. I’d
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A day off work, hallelujah. There are family calls to make, a checkbook to balance, unfinished books waiting to be read and a sad and dusty cello sitting in the corner. But a quick post first, for those who might come looking over the holidays… Bill’s mention of Facebook (“Wastebook” as bikegirl called it) and
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Art is worthless unless it plants a measure of splendor in people’s hearts. ~ Taha Muhammad Ali ~ This quote, excerpted from a poem, is my latest inspiration when I write. What’s yours?
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Andromeda is trekking through new territory for me, and I’m excited to be tagging along. There was a little talk – nothing came of it in the end – of a film option for my first novel. But even the talk was exciting. There’s something about projecting a story, about seeing it come to life,
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