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ALASKA BOOK WEEK: Anchorage Events
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A statewide celebration of Alaska's authors and books. READ LOCAL: A CELEBRATION. October 10, 7-9 pm, UAA/APU Consortium Library, LIB 307. Come join us on the last day of Alaska Book Week for a celebration of statewide writing contest winners, author readings, and a special announcement from Alaska Writer Laureate Frank Soos. There will also be a silent auction, as well as light refreshments. This event is free and open to the public. THE GREAT ALASKA BOOK FAIR. Barnes and Noble is pleased to announce it...
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ALASKA BOOK WEEK: Save the Date: Alaska Book Week 2015!
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A statewide celebration of Alaska's authors and books. Monday, February 9, 2015. Save the Date: Alaska Book Week 2015! On behalf of 49 Writers and the Alaska Center for the Book, we would like to thank everyone once again for participating in and supporting last year's Alaska Book Week. Without your support, the event would not have been successful, and we would not have been able to expand as we did. Thank you! We would also like to thank everyone for liking our Facebook page! About ABW and Contact Info.
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The Self-Made Writer: February 2015
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A teaching series for writers. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Free Books: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. A scam: don't fall for it! Let’s keep this simple. Everyone likes to get things for free. (Whether they value them is another matter; mostly, they don’t.). Say you want free books. There are good ways to get them. Libraries, for certain. If they don’t have the book you’re looking for, ask them to order it. Piracy of intellectual property, like everything else in the economic realm, is fundamentally abo...
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The Self-Made Writer: April 2015
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A teaching series for writers. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Four Tips for Beginning Your Book. If you’re a regular reader here, you know I’m returning from a couple of weeks off—productive time, in terms of author events and family gatherings, and also for my novel in progress, though I worked on it only during the first leg of my journey (when you fly to and from Alaska, there’s plenty of flight time). But something felt off. Here, four tips for beginning your book:. Develop an instinct for false starts:.
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The Self-Made Writer: January 2015
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A teaching series for writers. Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Creative Mistakes: Five Ways Authors Box Themselves In. As an author, you’re a creative type. That goes without saying. But in your approach to your craft, your publishing, and your promotion, are you actually as creative as you might be? Writing is a scary business, any way you cut it. In Write Your Best Book. The companion volume to What Every Author Should Know. A focus on the wrong kind of being:. In any uncertain enterprise, the natural tende...
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The Self-Made Writer: Sell That Book!
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A teaching series for writers. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Image source: wikihow.com. Do you dream of selling your book to a big New York publisher? I’ve done that, but the market is ever-changing, and so it’s always nice to get an update on what counts most in today’s acquisition decisions. Here, a few items of note from a recent session on the subject with literary agent Jeff Kleinman:. A manuscript must deliver. That means an agent or editor can’t put it down. It’s gush-worthy. When your book goes before ...
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