Author: Douglas Arvidson
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Traveling to Guam in March 2017
A Carolinian proa or outrigger canoe, sails in Guam's Apra Harbor.
While I was on Guam last June as a delegate to the Pacific Arts Festival, I was approached about speaking before a meeting of the Guam Chapter of the International Literacy Association (formerly the International Reading Association) on March 11, 2017. I was honored to be invited and look forward to returning to Guam, which was my home for eleven years and to where I have returned each of the eight years since I retired and mo...
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Works in Progress
The Deep Forest, the Sugarhouse, and the Spirit and Soul of New England
As a farm boy who grew up in the remote hills of rural New England, I experienced the forest as a place of deep peace and profound mystery, a place filled with ancient spirits and lurking ghosts. Set back in that forest there was often a sugarhouse, a simple, roughly built place where New England farmers boiled maple sap down to its sugary essence. In my imagination all this Shakespearian boiling and bubbling captured and...
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Book Signings at Sundial Book Store, Chingoteague Island, Virginia
It was a long, warm summer, but a good one. On June 14, 2016, and again on August 2, 2016, during the famous pony round up and swim we had successful book signings at the Sundial Book Store on Chincoteague Island in Virginia.
Thanks for two great afternoons meeting people and talking about writing. And, we will be back for another signing around Thanksgiving. I'll post the dates as soon as they're set. Hope see you there!
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Brothers of the Fire Star—2013 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Finalist
Brothers of the Fire Star has been selected as a finalist in three categories in New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards:
Fiction-Adventure
Fiction-Historical
Fiction-Young Adult
The final winners will be announced at the awards banquet on November 15, 2013 in Albuquerque.
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Brothers of the Fire Star—2012 Book of the Year Finalist
Brothers of the Fire Star was selected by ForeWord Reviews as a finalist in the 2012 Book of the Year awards. ForeWord Reviews recognizes distinguished books from independent and academic presses nationwide.
With Jennifer Szunko of ForeWord Reviews at the ForeWord Reviews Award Ceremony in Chicago
during the annual convention of the American Library Association
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In Chicago for Book of the Year Awards
In Chicago with Jennifer Szunko of ForeWord Reviews
For a writer, there are few things more thrilling and satisfying that having your work recognized. We work alone in dark rooms, muttering and moaning over our keyboards, while everyone else is outside having fun.
It is that bad, really. Think about it. Poor us. And you are never sure whether or not what you are banging out on the blank screen will make any sense to anyone but yourself. You self-confidence all depends on your mood and how all...
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Brothers of the Fire Star: 2012 Book of the Year Finalist
I had just gotten back home to Virginia in early May after completing a 1,250-mile voyage from Guam to the Philippines in a forty-two foot sailboat when I got the news that my novel, Brothers of the Fire Star, had been selected by ForeWord Reviews as a finalist in their 2012 Book of the Year awards.The winners will be announced in Chicago on June 28th at the annual convention of the American Library Association. I plan on being there.
This recognition was both ironic and wonderful because duri...
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