There’s another Cinderella-in-Alaska story to tell this week, and it doesn’t involve a certain past mayor of Wasilla. Just this weekend, while doing a book-signing in Mat-Su, I met a local aspiring novelist who recently snagged a big agent. I’ve been meaning to write a post about agents but I wanted to share more than […]
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Republican speechwriter Matthew Scully is the Alaskan author of the day. I doubt he’s ever set foot in our state, but the text he prepared for Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s debut at the Party’s convention caught the attention of more Americans than perhaps the last decade of books written in and about Alaska. Never mind
I was writing my own how-to-get-an-agent post when fellow blogger “Moonrat” of Editorial Ass beat me to the punch with a great post called “Why you should never submit unagented to publishing companies.” Counting on the fact that she will convince you that you do need an agent, I’ll follow with my own advice later
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No, I’m not going to discuss how Sarah dumped the state cook or leak the mooseburger recipe of our State Super Mom (aka the “perfect woman,” according to one Republican delegate). Frankly, I’m not sure how much more I can take of people like Wasilla’s current mayor gushing about how running her town and running
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My husband, two children and friends were climbing the unfortunately named South Suicide peak several weeks ago, the day my much-anticipated copy of James Wood’s HOW FICTION WORKS arrived. With a bum knee, I didn’t at all mind waiting in the trailhead parking lot at Falls Trail for the mountaineers to come tumbling out of
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If Alaskans have complained in the past that we’re overlooked by the rest of the nation – the old “Can you use American currency there?” and “Do you need a passport?” routines – we’ve got no business complaining now. Palin as VP pick; Palin as soon-to-be grandma (mom yet unwed); Palin target of legislative investigation;
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S. Bishop of Homer is the winner of the Sept. 1 drawing. Thanks for your comments, S., and please email me at andromeda@romanolax.com so I can send you your prize: Title Wave certificate (which can be used for phone orders or in-store visits), Kaladi gift card, or paperback edition of THE SPANISH BOW. We’ll have
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Sarah Palin, with whom John McCain rocked the political world yesterday, has a story that is quintessentially Alaskan: from hockey mom to VP nominee. (Note to Karl Rove: Hockey moms don’t play hockey; their kids do.) McCain hopes you’ll think Sarah’s just like Obama. She’s living the dream in a country where anything can happen.
My husband Brian reminded me today, a day when we found it impossible to focus on anything else, that Alaska science fiction writer David Marusek (whom I have mentioned in a recent post, shown at left) wrote a short story about an Alaskan vice president, called “Cabbages and Kale or: How we downsized North America”
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In all my excitement over politics this week (late night electioneering and convention watching every night) and now this latest Sarah news, I almost forgot that I’m a writer, too. With a book to sign, tomorrow. If you’re heading north (perhaps for the Alaska State Fair?) stop by Fireside Books in Palmer from 10:30 to
