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Here's a sneak peek at some of the illustrations in our new book MeNow: The Adventures of Mickey the Mushing Cat, book 1 from Leon Mensch. Releasing February 2020 just in time for the Iditarod!
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 ReadAlaska will host their 26th annual book fair on the second floor of the Anchorage Museum November 29th and 30th, 2019. As in years past, the event showcases many local Alaskan authors and publishers. Sharon Aubrey of Relevant Publishers LLC will be there with many of our titles to help you find that special Christmas present for your hard-to-buy for friends and family. Stop by on Black Friday or Small Business Saturday from 10am-6pm and buy local! Additionally, there is a large craft show featuring local artists on the first level of the museum. A percentage of proceeds benefit the museum.  Image courtesy of Anchorage Museum 
This year Relevant Publishers LLC is proud to sponsor the first Alaskan Book Booth, where Alaskan authors, illustrators, and publishers will be displaying unique books. Come out August 22nd -September 2nd to meet your favorite authors. We are located on the Red Trail between the Red Gate and the Don Sheldon Event Center (the large, green metal building). A schedule of current author signings is listed below.
We are so excited to receive our booth location on the Red Trail for next year's fair. At the fair you will find not only our books for sale, but many other books from Alaskan authors and publishers. Details of all the authors in the booth will be forthcoming, so plan on visiting our booth next August.  Found Forms in Fiction: Letters, Tweets, & Beyond Thurs nights in October, 2018 | Oct 4, 11, 18, 25 | 6-9 pm / 12 hours total Members or full time students: $139 | General enrollment: $159 Cap: 12 | All experience levels Location: Anchorage, 421 W. 1st Ave, Suite 200 (Alaska Humanities Forum office) In this four-week class, we’ll study pieces of fiction that borrow formal structures from elsewhere in culture. We’ll study a classic epistolary work, innovative contemporary pieces like Rick Moody’s short story-in-tweets, and more. From there, we’ll identify forms that might be interesting to experiment with (as well as their respective formal possibilities and constraints). Students will write and workshop new stories utilizing borrowed forms. Instructor bio: Shane Castle is a UAA writing instructor and reader/proofreader forAlaska Quarterly Review. He has worked as a journalist and his short fiction has appeared in venues including Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, Salamander, Electric Literature, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Iron Horse Literary Review recently selected one of his stories for its 20th anniversary “best of” issue, and his agent is currently trying to sell his debut novel.  We are still accepting Alaskan authors or Alaskan themed books for the 2019 State Fair Booth in Palmer, Alaska. If you are interested in having your books available to the 300,000 participants that attend the State Fair, then see our partner webpage for more information. www.akbooksandmusic.com   Author Hilda Luster-Lindner is currently available for fans to meet her and obtain autographed copies of her latest book, Small Moccasin Tracks, at the Cantwell Lodge located in Cantwell, Alaska. If you are traveling between Fairbanks and Anchorage or Wasilla, be sure to stop and say hello to Hilda!  The Alaska Writer's Guild writers and illustrators conference will be held September 21-22, 2018. There will be many opportunities for authors and illustrators to expand their skills and meet other professionals in the field. Friday, August 10th is the last day to receive the early bird special. For more information please contact the conference website.
Alaskan author, Mary A. Havens, will be at the Wasilla Public Library on August 17th for book signings to meet & greet her fans. Her book, The Shadows in My Heart, deals with the hidden trauma of abuse.
Mary A. Havens, author of The Shadows in My Heart will be at the Writer's Block Cafe July 31st
 Small Moccasin Tracks: Memories of an Alaskan Mountain Family is the first book of memories from Hilda Luster-Lindner of growing up in Alaska during and after Territorial Days. Johnny Luster, the famous hunting guide and mountain man, was Hilda’s father. Her mother, Lillie, lived primarily alone in the wilderness, giving birth to most of her children in very primitive conditions, some under trees, and raised them in the wilds of the Last Frontier. Through hardships and tragedy, blizzards and summer flooding, the Luster family lived in the great outdoors or in small trapper cabins, surviving on what was gathered from the land. While life was extreme and often difficult, they found love and happiness. Learn their secret as you journey back in time to a simpler life, wild and rugged where each day was a battle for survival. This newly revised book has more pictures and memories! Available July 19th.
 Hilda has approved the new cover for Small Moccasin Tracks: Memories of an Alaskan Mountain Family. This second newly revised, edition of her classic memoir is filled with more pictures and whimsical tales. Schedule for release July 19, 2018. Don't you just love the aerial photo of these snow covered trees?
 Next year, Relevant Publishers LLC is hosting a new booth promoting Alaskan authors, illustrators, publishers, musicians and bands at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer. This booth was created to help Alaskans artists bring their work to the general public on a larger scale without too much of a financial burden. With approximately 300,000 participants attending the Alaska State Fairgrounds in Palmer, the AK Books & Music Booth is a great way to
Authors will have more opportunities to promote their titles with 2-hour time slots available for author/album signings. In addition to the booth in August, each author/musician will have their name and work featured on the AK Books and Music website and social media links. There will also be a Christmas newsletter sent out to Fair customers who signed up at our booth, giving even more potential opportunities for sales. Authors who are out-of-state residents that have written books on Alaska or Alaskan topics are eligible for consideration to join the Alaska Books & Music booth in 2019. Sign up early to reserve your Title Space. 
Relevant author, Sharon Aubrey, has received her first 5 star book review rating from the Christian website Interviews & Reviews from reviewer Hanna Olson. Ms. Olson writes:
"Sharon Aubrey's, Redemption's Secret: Understanding the Mystery of Nisan 17, The Most Important Date in History is full of intrigue and biblical history that many of us tend to overlook. She breaks down our Lord's calendar and discusses important historic events that all occurred on Nisan 17 and what that means for us today. I found this book an exciting and a fast-paced read. I enjoyed the ease in which this story flows and its meaningful content. Ms. Aubrey has successfully tackled a potentially confusing subject and explains it in an easily understandable way. Not only does this work explain the significance of Nisan 17 but it also touches on the Hebrew language, numbers, and word meanings, all of which I find fascinating. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Bible or in the way God reveals His ways to us. This makes for a great Bible study and introduction into God's calendar. I'm looking forward to more from this author."  Sharon Aubrey teaches the first group of K-2 students.
This weekend author Sharon Aubrey from Relevant Publishers LLC participated in the Young Writers' Conference in Palmer, Alaska. This conference was open to all school age children between Kindergarten and 5th Grade in the Matanuska-Susitina Borough School District. There were approximately 300 children that attended the conference.
Ms. Aubrey taught three different groups of students, totaling 54 children in grades K-2 about the writing process. She also shared with them the story of Mimsy Mouse Searches for a New Home by Linda N. Walz and Stephan Linton. All the children loved Ms. Walz's story and many were excited to learn Ms. Walz was a grandmother writing new books. Many kids hope to read the entire series of Mimsy's adventures on Farmer Brown's farm. After learning about the parts of a story, Ms. Aubrey challenged students to write their own stories about a moose who had a dream or talent that the other moose didn't understand. These moose were not "normal." Students had to come up with a problem for their moose and a solution. The stories the children created were so imaginative that there was one moose who landed on the moon. A different moose went ice skating. Another moose wanted to operate an ice cream truck but was too big to fit through the truck doors. A magic shrinking potion helped him accomplish his goal to fit through the doors and sell ice cream cones to children. We also had a moose that got lost accidentally boarding a barge and went to the city. And there was a moose named Bruce with a loose tooth who couldn't eat his regular food, so he had to drink milkshakes. There were even a few moose that were like Mimsy Mouse and lived on a farm and needed help from their friends to find a new home. Overall, it was a wonderful and educational day!   
Released today, Redemption's Secret: Understanding the Mystery of Nisan 17 the Most Important Date in History is Sharon Aubrey's second book Christian, nonfiction book.
 There is the potential for artists to combine their efforts to produce the images required to complete an entire book. Please contact us for more details if you are interested.
 The 49 Writers Reading and Craft Talk Series presents Kathleen W. Tarr presenting On the Literary Road with Thomas Merton: Writing As a Pilgrimage. Held at the Indigo Tea Lounge on 530 E Benson Blvd #8 on Thursday, March 1, 2018 at 7 PM. This series will discuss how writers must often dance in the “clarity of perfect contradiction,” as the famous Trappist monk and bestselling writer,Thomas Merton observed. Writers work in quiet isolation, and yet confront and answer the impulse to hit the road, turning themselves into wanderers and explorers. Whether physically or metaphorically, writers become pilgrims. In this 49 Writers Reading & Craft Talk Series event, author Kathleen Witkowska Tarr discusses her newly-released book, part-memoir, part-biography, We Are All Poets Here (VPD House, January 2018), a shared story about spiritual seeking, and a surprising literary pilgrimage.”  Martha Amore is currently a professor at the University of Alaska, Anchorage where she teaches English. Her latest release: In the Quiet Season & Other Stories explores the human landscape of Alaska. While the stories take place in modern-day towns, each is laced with a timelessness that comes from their roots in ageless issues: broken trust and heartbreak, hope and rebirth. The expansive Alaska landscape infuses the stories with a unique chill, as tears freeze on eyelashes and mountain ranges form the backdrop for breakups. Although the people in Amore’s stories know how to survive Alaska’s cold terrain, these characters stumble when trying to navigate through their own lives and lost dreams. “The characters in Amore's debut collection, In the Quiet Season and Other Stories, grapple with issues of trust and love—and sometimes in direct opposition to the expectations of the people in their lives. At their best, these wise and engaging stories radiate a surprising and redemptive light.” Ron Spatz, editor of Alaska Quarterly Review  Hilda's first book Small Moccasin Tracks was published in 2009 by PublishAmerica. Small Moccasin Tracks was the first of her memoirs describing the unique life of mountain folk in the Alaska Wilderness during Territorial Days and early Statehood. The stories filled with adventure and tragedy were the daily life of her family. Written in Hilda's distinctive style of plain language, Small Moccasin Tracks was a very entertaining book that almost seemed like a tall-tale except for the fact she lived it. Readers enjoyed this glimpse of a past lifestyle often forgotten in today's modern world.
The previous publisher placed her first book in nonprint status, and Ms. Lindner sought to revive her book and continue the story with her second book. As a result, Hilda has joined the Relevant Publishers LLC author family to bring these amazing real-life stories back to life. There will be a revised second edition of Small Moccasin Tracks: Memories of an Alaskan Mountain Family coming in 2018. This new edition will have more pictures from Hilda's family life in the 1950s and 1960s and will also contain additional reading material. Hilda's second book, Johnny and Me: The Story of Two Alaskan Children Growing Up Wild is also scheduled for release in 2018. We are very excited to bring you these two new books. |
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