February 2018 Newsletter
The Great Alone is On Sale Today!
I am so excited to finally be able to share The Great Alone with you. Thank you for your patience as you waited for “the next book” after The Nightingale. I am looking forward to reading your comments about it, so please share them on my Facebook and Goodreads pages.
BREAKING MOVIE NEWS! Newsletter readers, you’re the first of my readers to know that Sony’s TriStar Pictures has preemptively purchased movie rights to The Great Alone. Elizabeth Cantillon of the Cantillon Company and Laura Quicksilver will produce the movie.This is the duo that is producing “The Nightingale.” You can read more about it here.
I am on the road for a very limited book tour, with my first stop in New York City tonight. For humor, above you can see a photo of me traveling with my family when we left California years ago, on our family adventure to find a new home in the Pacific Northwest. That is me in the middle with a book in my hand. Prescient, right?
The first portion of the tour also has me in Massachusetts, Toronto, Washington, DC, North Carolina, Florida and Washington this month. And then there will be a second leg of the tour in March with one event in Arizona and four in California. The complete schedule is on my website. I hope to see you there!
Surrounding the tour, there is a lot more going on. I am doing a radio interview tomorrow on WNYC, from 1:00-1:20pm ET. You can listen here.
An Exclusive Giveaway
for My Newsletter Readers!
I am happy to share a very special giveaway, exclusively for my newsletter subscribers. Want a chance to win a basket of Alaskan goodies in an Alaskan Homesteader Basket, as well as an audiobook of The Great Alone? Enter by Tuesday, February 20th at 11:59pm EST.
Alaskan homesteaders accepted the challenge of clearing and improving 160-acre parcels of wild Alaskan land. With no neighbors or roads, they had to pack in their own supplies. The Homesteader’s Basket includes two dozen different Alaskan items, so even the hungriest homesteading family would have no trouble making it through the winter. It includes eight pounds of goodies,
including smoked salmon and halibut, Siberian and Buffalo sausages, reindeer meat and much more!
After you finish listening to the audiobook, I would love for you to share your comments on Goodreads and my Facebook page.
Click here to enter the contest.
And congratulations to winners of the signed advanced reading copies in my last newsletter: Jessica from Springfield, PA; Marla from Castle Rock, CO; Anne from Calais, ME; Katie from Lexington, KY; and Leia from Canaan, NH.
My Family History With Alaska
As I mentioned in my last newsletter, my family has had a long history in Alaska, which I talk about here in this video. I was interviewed by my editor, who never is seen on screen, which was so tricky and smart of her. My parents joined with a local Alaskan homesteading family to found the Great Alaska Adventure Lodge on the rugged banks of the Kenai River. Three generations of my family
have worked there, and over the last 20 years I have spent a lot of time up there. Every time I land in that majestic, otherworldly landscape, I fall in love all over again.
For Book Groups
The Great Alone is a great book for book groups. Here is a link to a discussion guide to get the conversation started. Note: Do not look at these discussion questions until you have finished the book, as they contain spoilers. In my next newsletter, coming in April, I will share some ideas of what to serve at your book group meetings.
Some of My Personal Alaska Photos
For fun, here are some photos that I took in Alaska that will give you more of a sense of the beauty and grandeur of the place.
At a small airport in Alaska
Salty Dawg Saloon
The gorgeous view of the Kenai River from The Great Alaska Adventure Lodge
Me, pretending to drive my brother’s fishing boat on the river
Order The Great Alone
The Great Alone is available in Hardcover, eBook and Audio CD
from these retailers:
The Great Alone is available as a Digital Audiobook from these retailers:
Signed Books
You can request signed books from many of the stores that I will be visiting on my tour. Signed copies of all my books also are available at Liberty Bay Books.
That Time When You
Were a “Jeopardy!” Clue…
The episode with this clue aired last Friday, and immediately I got Facebook notes from readers. Such fun to see this as I was packing to head on tour!
Until Next Time…
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