Destination Alaska

Guest Author

Cindy Dyson

Cindy Dyson is nothing like any character in her book. She wouldn’t even hang with people who were anything like characters in her book. While she is blonde and did grow up in Alaska, any resemblances to her characters are just rumors started by questionable friends. Okay, she did have a few wayward years, and she did sling drinks at the notorious Elbow Room. But not for very long, and she’s never eaten mummy flesh, although she has tried muktuk (whale blubber) as well as lusta (fermented seal flipper).

She is from Alaska and has such a rich reservoir of stories and information that you don’t often find in guidebooks and traditional lectures.

Awards

• Destination Fiction Prize 2006
• BookSense pick March 2006
• Portland TV book club pick
• QPBC best novel of 2006 finalist

Guests' interaction with the author will be far more intimate than traditional venues. Dyson will be dropping in on book club meetings, mingling at the private party, speaking at an author dinner, leading a narrative travel journaling workshop, and accompanying the group into a setting from her novel on the Novel Shore Excursion.

Please visit www.cindydyson.com for more exciting information about Cindy Dyson.