Former Alaska newspaper editor penning Big Novel about Big State

OUTAKE/INTAKE -- not for public prints:

from a NEWSPAPER front page story yet to be written: imagined by
DB:

Former Alaska newspaper editor penning Big Novel about Big State, set
to be bestseller in 2012


He was born in Alaska and lived there for most of his life,
and for many years he ran the newspaper, the state's most
important newspaper. He was the editor-in-chief, a regular columnist
and a man about town. He knew everyone in the state, from state
politics in Juneau, to the oil people on the North Slope, to the
leaders of the indigenous Alaskan Natives whose ancestors have been in
Alaska for over 10,000 years -- Eskimoes and Indians from around the
vast state. He is Mr Alaska. And not only that, he is a
first-class writer, columnist, editorialist and editor. He knows the
newspaper business like few Americans know it today.

Now in middle age, he is writing a novel about his home state,
Alaska, a huge expansive novel
about, as he calls it in a recent blog post, "a novel about politics,
oil and corruption in Alaska 30 years ago."

Initial reaction from the blogosphere has been very positive:
"Sir," said one note, "Your writing is wonderful -- great dialogue,
descriptions, touches that are very engaging. This book has a great
chance to capture the American reading public's attention once it's
published, and your success as a novelist will certainly be in keeping
with your incredible career as an Alaskan and USA journalist.
With Palin on the national scene now and Alaska's profile boosted by
daily headlines about climate change, oil fields, Sarah Palin, and
even presidential politics, your novel is set to be a winner."



His novel, set to rival even James Michener's big book about the big
state, is certain to turn heads and shape the future. You will never
think about Alaska in quite the same way again.