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Recent news & announcements from Epicenter Press:
November, 2012, for immediate release
Former bookstore manager named marketing
director for Epicenter Press, Aftershocks Media
JUNEAU, Alaska--Katrina Pearson, a former manager of independent bookstores in Juneau and Fairbanks,
has been named director of marketing for the regional book publisher, Epicenter Press, and
its book-distribution company, Aftershocks Media.
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April, 2012, for immediate release
New baseball book reflects Seattle Mariner
fans' frustration awaiting a World Series
SEATTLE--In Seattle, where politeness is in the DNA, jay-walking is frowned
upon, and booing at the ballpark is a fairly recent phenomenon, long-suffering
baseball fans are losing their patience waiting for a winner.
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April, 2012, for immediate release
Editor's memoir traces career from green
cub reporter to general in Alaska's newspaper war
ANCHORAGE, Alaska-Howard Weaver, a 21-year old hometown boy from a blue-collar
neighborhood in Alaska's largest city, knew he had come to the right place
when he landed a job as cub reporter at the Anchorage Daily News in 1972.
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April, 2012, for immediate release
Memoir reveals adventures, hardship, love,
and heartache of an arctic geological explorer
FAIRBANKS, Alaska--As a young geological explorer in Alaska, Mary Albanese often
traveled literally to the edge of the map, taking her shotgun named "Sally" with
her, though she knew that stopping a charging bear would be easier said
than done--even with a firearm.
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April, 2012, for immediate release
Author's family research reveals cultural
disconnect between past and present
ANCHORAGE, Alaska-When Jan Harper-Haines delved into her family's history, she
discovered powerful conflicts between the distant past and a more recent time
as her family struggled to survive in two worlds.
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December 10, 2011, for immediate release
Memoirs, true crime, and sports highlight Epicenter's spring list
Epicenter Press has announced plans to publish five new books about Alaska and the Pacific Northwest
for spring 2012, including a no-holds-barred memoir from the former editor of the Anchorage Daily
News and a true-crime story about convicted murder accomplice Mechele Linehan.
The five titles, all due for spring release, are:
December 10, 2011, for immediate release
Aftershocks Media adds health, travel, mystery, science fiction, history, and children's titles
Aftershocks Media, a book distributor affiliated with Epicenter Press,
has added six diverse new titles for distribution in 2012. They are:
Sept. 20, 2011, for immediate release
Anthology of authentic stories about life
in rural Alaska wins three national awards
KOTZEBUE, Alaska-An anthology penned by writers from rural Alaska recently won
three national book awards while its co-editors were honored for their long-running
cultural journalism project that has published hundreds of University of Alaska
students in newspapers and on websites over the past quarter-century.
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Sept. 8, 2011, for immediate release
New book about the lives of Alaska's
commercial fishing men and women
goes beyond TV stereotypes
KODIAK, Alaska-Most people know that commercial fishing in Alaska is ranked as one of the
most dangerous occupations in the world. Through reality TV, millions are transfixed by
the drama of life-threatening conditions faced by the crabbers in the Bering Sea.
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March 1, 2011, for immediate release
Ray Mala Film Festival to feature historic films,
release of new biography of Inupiat movie star
ANCHORAGE, Alaska-Publication of ESKIMO STAR: From the Tundra to Tinseltown, the Ray Mala Story,
by Lael Morgan, a biography of Alaska's first and only movie star, will kick off the Ray Mala Film
Festival this spring with screenings planned in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau,
Kotzebue, Nome, Point Hope, and Bethel.
The festival is part of a statewide celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Alaska
Native land claims settlement and recognizes emergence of an Alaska movie industry.
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August 15, 2010
Publisher of first Sarah Palin biography releases
new edition of Alaska classic by Joe McGinniss
WASILLA, Alaska-In his prologue for a new edition of GOING TO EXTREMES, author Joe McGinniss, who is living next door
this summer to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, observes that the first time he came to Alaska in 1975, the new
state was sixteen years old and Sarah Palin was thirteen.
"To look back on the Alaska of then-when the oil pipeline was being built and when Palin was playing basketball
in Wasilla-from the vantage point of 2010, is to gaze, somewhat nostalgically, at the romantic optimism, rough
edges, and energy of youth," McGinniss writes.
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July 10, 2010
Ex-journalist's coming-of-age memoir recalls wild
World War II boom in once-remote interior of Alaska
FAIRBANKS, Alaska--When Jack de Yonge was born here in 1934, Fairbanks was a once-thriving mining
town in the remote center of Alaska. As Jack's dad liked to say, no matter what direction you went
out of town, you soon arrived in Nowhere. But now the town was dying, the population draining away.
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June 1, 2010
New anthology offers a rich collection of true
stories written in most remote corners of Alaska
KOTZEBUE, Alaska-Two university professors have published a diverse anthology of true stories
touching on the love, adventure, hopes, and dreams of people who live, work, and play on
the immense land and sea of America's most remote state.
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April 3, 2010
Best-selling author Lew Freedman reveals colorful
history of Far North's "other" marathon sled dog race
The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race is an annual 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) race between
Fairbanks, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon, run in the shadow of the older, more established
Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Yet, the Quest claims to be "the world's toughest sled dog race,"
and with some justification.
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February 10, 2010
Cookbook combines seafood, Pacific Rim flavors,
salty stories from Alaska's commercial fisherwomen
Sisters Kiyo and Tomi Marsh were fishing in the Bering Sea on Tomi's 78-foot commercial fishing boat,
the Savage, when they dreamed up the idea of publishing a cookbook combining seafood recipes and
personal stories from other fisherwomen they had met and worked with in Alaska.
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March 1, 2009
Anguish, anger, and a hope for the future
found in new book on oil spill anniversary
VALDEZ, Alaska--Twenty years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef,
sixty-two men and women recall what they saw, how they reacted, and how they coped
with North America's worst tanker oil spill...
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