The Spaces Between: Stories From the Kenai Mountains to the Kenai Fjords By Doug Capra

This entertaining Alaska gold nugget packed with Seward's colorful history makes you feel like you live there. Besides an excellent author and historian, Doug Capra is a storytelling educator whose attention to historic detail brings these stories and people alive while camouflaging the painstaking research behind them. Looking for a binge-worthy true Alaska reality show? Eureka!

Listen to our podcast interview  with Doug about Seward's Christmas Tree and Rockwell Kent's Fox Island Christmas!

Doug Capra article: The Luxury of Forgetting

Auditioning: What They Say When You Leave the Room By Mary McCusker

Hollywood’s award-winning directors, busiest casting directors, leading showrunners, and successful actors share their expertise on landing the job in the unique art of auditioning. Acting coach Mary McCusker’s in-depth interviews with these industry experts, give specific insider tips for actors to apply in the audition room. These Hollywood giants have been the creative forces behind many award-winning films and television shows.

 WEBSITE:

marymccuskeractingstudio.com

INSTAGRAM:

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YouTube interviews from the book:

Auditioning: What They Say/Mary McCusker

Mary McCusker joined us on the Big Alaska Show to share her experience as an acting coach and give us a little behind the scenes what her job entails.

In this podcast segment Mary talks about her book,  Auditioning: What They Say When You Leave the Room.

 Listen to Mary’s entire interview on the Big Alaska Show:

Actors Behind the Scenes

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Accidental Adventures: Alaska True Tales of Ordinary People Facing Danger in the Wilderness

Reading Chris Lundgren’s book, Accidental Adventures: Alaska True Tales of Ordinary People Facing Danger in the Wilderness, one wonders how many other Alaskan misadventures of ordinary people go unrecorded. Which is unfortunate. Who would believe them?! Fortunately, Chris captures 20 stories for posterity of those lucky enough to have survived unlucky situations! We were lucky to have recorded this podcast of Chris Lundgren telling us about her book.

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 Listen to the podcast with author Chris Lundgren!

Tundra Kill

Tundra Kill is the 5th book of Stan Jones’ fiction Nathan Active series. Nathan Active is an Inupiat Eskimo and borough police chief who patrols the coldest beat in America: The tiny Inupiat village of Chukchi and the surrounding region, located on the windswept shores of the Chukchi Sea somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. Author Chris Lundgren says of Stan Jones’ work: “He’s an incredible writer, elegant writing style, unforgettable characters, unguessable mysteries, and the landscape is just baked into the whole package. Reading his books is quite an experience.”

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Blazing Hearts Wildfire Series by Lolo Paige

Alaska Blaze: Enemies to Lovers Workplace Romance

Alaskan firefighter Raynie Atwood thinks she knows what she wants—until a walking encyclopedia disguised as a hotshot firefighter storms into her life. Grieving loss and betrayal by the man she once loved, Raynie sets her sights on a top command post for wildland fire ... read more...

Hello Spain, Goodbye Heart

Travel writer Dayna Benning tours Europe to write a feature story for a travel magazine. Along the way, she helps her bestie scatter her husband’s ashes. When Dayna accidentally sprinkles Alex Mendes with dried rose petals intended for the deceased, she senses a chemistry with the silver fox airline pilot. Just one catch—he wears a wedding band. Read more...

ALASKA INFERNO

Can a string of wildfires lead to true love under a midnight sun?

Jon Silva is back as a wildland fire investigator, along with his well-earned reputation as a crack firefighter and notorious serial dater. But things have changed ...

Award Winning author, Lolo Paige, knows how to pack romance into one of the hardest and hottest jobs on the planet! We do a poor job describing it here, so we let her tell us about it. She and our Science Guy, Dr. Gordon Snyder, then take us behind the scenes to a world of wildland fires and the men and women who fight them!

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Alaska Spark: The Blazing Hearts Wildfire Series By Lolo Paige

Lolo Paige takes us into the Land of the Midnight Sun where romance, sabotage and wildfire are an explosive mix!

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LOLO PAIGE WEBSITE:   https://www.lolopaige.com 

 Listen to the podcast with author Lolo Paige and Dr. Gordon Snyder!