Audio interviews with the authors, and more!
It's Only Fishing: Tales of Alaska, fly fishing and young adulthood
by Joe Jackson
2020 was a year of change. Caught between occupations and a global pandemic, 24-year-old Joe Jackson decided to write an essay for every fly-fishing trip he took. And just like the fishing itself, these essays drift from the metaphysical to the wholly matter-of-fact.
Hear the extended interview!
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...
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!
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!
Learning the Ropes: An Alaskan Memoir
By Mike Gordon
Mike’s story is the Last Frontier’s entertaining version of the Odyssey. Mike created and operated one of the most successful nightclub saloons in the world, Chilkoot Charlie’s.
Opening in 1970 and for the next 45 years before retiring, Mike went through the cash rich Alaska Pipeline years, boom and bust economies, fought the Hell’s Angels, drugs and personal demons, climbed the seven tallest mountains in seven continents, went back to college after 48 years away from it to get his B.A. and M.A. But wait, there’s more!
The book can be purchased from his website or from Amazon
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It means something extra when Kim Carlson has attendst he annual Polar Bear Jump Off in Seward, AK, as she has done for ten years—raising tens of thousands of dollars. She has dedicated her jumps, first to her mother, who was lost to cancer, and subsequently to other victims and their families.
It was a packed house and a packed show of fun! Alaskans and Texans- in the same room! Only on the Big Alaska Show can such a combination co-exist in the same room.
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