Beyond The Cover Feature: Kodiak’s own Leslie Leyland Fields joins us to discuss her new book, Crossing the Waters: Following Jesus Through the Storms, the Fish, the Doubt, and the Seas.  Leslie also shares with us how she got into writing and teaching, how she started out in Kodiak and some of the amazing projects and careers she has had during her decades …

Beyond the Cover Feature: J.T. Ellison joins us this month.  J.T. Ellison is a bestselling author of dark, psychological thrillers, widely known for her novel “All the Pretty Girls,” among others and her work with Catherine Coulter on the Nicholas Drummond “A Brit in the FBI” series.  She is also a founder of Two Tales Press, an independent publishing house, and …

Beyond the Cover Feature: This month we feature James Rains, the local author of the apocalyptic biomedical thriller Afognak.  He discusses his book and reads an excerpt from it, as well as an excerpt from the next book in this series, entitled Chiniak.  James talks about his books, his writing style, offers advice to aspiring authors and writers, and explains …

 A beautiful day for a race! Another spectacular fall day greeted a crowd of 160 racers and their supporters at the 10th annual KMXT Run the Rock on Saturday. Thanks to all of our sponsors and all who came out to participate – we hope you had as much fun as we did. You’ll find the results for the races …

Beyond the Cover Feature: Catherine Coulter, author of 70 books of both regency romance and FBI Thrillers, joins us this month to discuss her writing process, what it’s like to co-write with other authors, and shares some stories about her decades-long career as a full-time, bestselling writer.  She also dishes about some of her contemporaries, including J.T. Ellison, Clive Cussler …

Beyond the Cover Feature:  International Best-Seller Christopher Paolini, author of the Inheritance Cycle books; comprised of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr and Inheritance.  Christopher recently revisited Alaska when he visited Anchroage and Fairbanks as part of Barnes & Noble’s B-Fest YA/Teen Book Festival. In the interview, Christopher discusses living in Alaska as a child, writing Eragon as a 15 year …

Beyond the Cover Feature: In this episode, we re-aired the interview we did with Sandor Katz that originally aired on Dog-Eared Reads in July 2015.  Sandor Katz is a fermentation revivalist and author of The Art of Fermentation (2012) & Wild Fermentation (2003).  He gives some great advice for people interested in fermentation, and discusses how to make homemade sauerkraut …

Congratulations to our Concert Raffle winners! Randy Ensign won 2 season tickets to the Kodiak Arts Council Performing Arts Series. Linda Freed won tickets to Salmonfest. And…DRUM ROLL PLEASE….Brad Majdic won the Grand Prize: Two tickets to any concert of his choice in the lower 48 or Alaska – including airfare from Kodiak and hotel.  Thanks to everyone who participated. …

Beyond the Cover Feature: This month we speak with Dani Pettrey, author of The Alaskan Courage series, including the bestselling novels Submerged, Shattered, Stranded, Silenced, and Sabotaged, as well as the short story Shadowed, which is featured in the novella collection entitled Sins of the Past.  This high adventure, inspirational romance series takes place in the fictional town of the …

Beyond the Cover Feature: Sara Loewen joins us this month to share with us from her book Gaining Daylight, as well as to talk about The Salmon Project, including Made of Salmon: Alaska Stories from The Salmon Project, in which Sarah is also featured; along with over 50 other contributors from Kodiak and Alaska.  Sarah grew up in Noatak, Old …