Tele Aadsen

writer - fisherman - listener

You’re Invited: Alaska Book Week 2012

by | Oct 10, 2012 | Alaska, Culture, Reading & Writing | 6 comments

It’s Day Five of Alas­ka Book Week, bud­dies! I’m quite late in giv­ing you the heads-up (apolo­gies), but you can still join this annu­al cel­e­bra­tion of Alaskan authors and books: ABW 2012 is Octo­ber 6 ‑13.

In its sec­ond year, ABW is host­ed by the good folks at 49 Writers/49 Alas­ka Writ­ing Cen­ter. Thanks to gen­er­ous dona­tions by Epi­cen­ter Press and indi­vid­ual authors, they’re giv­ing away two books each day — just leave your answer to the dai­ly ques­tion on the ABW web­site or Face­book page, and you’ll be eli­gi­ble to win.

(I was delight­ed to win a copy of Fish­es & Dish­es last year. Not only is this a fan­tas­tic cook­book with great sea sto­ries, a few months ear­li­er a nasty wave had thrown a poor­ly closed bot­tle of mouth­wash all over the Nerka’s gal­ley — and all over my copy of the Marsh sis­ters’ beau­ti­ful work. Just as the song goes, some­times you do get what you need!)

It’s not too late to join the vir­tu­al fes­tiv­i­ties! Thanks for help­ing to spread the word, and best of luck to you in the give­aways. Much grat­i­tude to the lit­er­a­ture-lov­ing vol­un­teers who make this event an Octo­ber tradition.

My bed­side read­ing mate­r­i­al isn’t tow­er­ing quite per­ilous­ly enough yet… Which Alaskan authors/books would you put on a “must-read” list?

6 Comments

  1. Tanis S'eiltin
    Tanis S'eiltin on October 10, 2012 at 7:59 am

    Hi Tele, it was great see­ing you the oth­er day, and what a coin­ci­dence, I read the sto­ry about the young man you and your hus­band found in a fish­ing tote the next day! Nice to be a sub­scriber of your site, I look for­ward to fol­low­ing your sto­ries and a new con­nec­tion to home. 

    Cheers!
    Tanis

    • Tele
      Tele on October 10, 2012 at 9:43 pm

      Thanks for stop­ping by, Tanis! It was real­ly good to see you, and I so under­stand the hunger for north­ern-home con­nec­tion. I hope you get some of that South­east salve here. 

      Do you know, the first time I ever had seal oil was with you? 🙂

  2. patriciasands
    patriciasands on October 10, 2012 at 7:38 pm

    Thanks for the invi­ta­tion, Tele. Sounds like a good time! I’m off to tweet.

    • Tele
      Tele on October 10, 2012 at 9:43 pm

      You’re such a pow­er­ful role mod­el connector/facilitator, Patri­cia! Thank you.

  3. Gordy Garrett
    Gordy Garrett on October 10, 2012 at 8:32 pm

    Please con­sid­er a safe­ty fol­low up on your excel­lent account on Mr. Har­ris and the fish tote. 

    Thank you. You might make a real difference. 

    Gordy Gar­rett

    571 291 5469

    • Tele
      Tele on October 10, 2012 at 9:47 pm

      That’s a great sug­ges­tion, Gordy — thank you for tak­ing the time to leave it. I have had a fol­low up in mind, but it’s more about how the fleet expe­ri­enced the after­shocks of this event. Hmm… Might be worth invit­ing some­one from Alas­ka Marine Safe­ty Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion to con­tribute a piece more direct­ly relat­ed to what you’re speak­ing of…

      You’ve giv­en me stuff to think on, Gordy! Many thanks, and be safe, yourself.