by Tele | Jan 9, 2016 | Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
On December 15th, six hours after submitting Hooked’s final revision, I lost my voice. Literally. All these years a devoted disciple of the “tell your story” gospel, and, upon surrendering that story for my editor’s review,...
by Tele | Oct 19, 2015 | Culture, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
Last June, my editor’s response to Draft #2 arrived on our doorstep just as we were preparing to head north. If there can be a good time or place to face the fact that your book needs major revisions, I found mine in the Nerka’s pilot seat, alone on my...
by Tele | Jun 25, 2014 | Commercial Fishing, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
53⁰23.596’ N 129⁰52.095’ W 11:15 pm, Principe Channel, British Columbia Dusk tames the ocean. Dims it to liquid mercury, a silver sheet with yellow threads peeking from the folds. My favorite kind of ocean. The hillsides bracketing this two-mile...
by Tele | Feb 1, 2014 | Commercial Fishing, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
We spend all summer moving through the salmon season, yet September always sneaks up on me. It lunges out from where it’s been hiding, hunched behind the corner of August. I jump every time. The end of my residency with the North Cascades...
by Tele | Nov 8, 2013 | Alaska, Commercial Fishing, Family, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
For the most part, I’ve been relying on my Facebook page to promote the books I’m currently loving, the writers who inspire me, the paragraphs so fist-to-my-mouth moving that I want to pass them along to you like the gifts they are. An easy, immediate...
by Tele | Oct 16, 2013 | Culture, Reading & Writing, Women in Fishing
You know when you have news to share, and maybe it’s nothing huge, but still you decide just to sit on it until a better time and place? And as you’re waiting, your originally not-such-a-big-deal news unfolds to reveal a new layer, and another, until...
