by Joanne Sundell | Jan 2, 2016 | Blog
LOYAL MUSHERS, INDEED! No matter the sled or the dog driver, I count those among you who have read Arctic Storm and Arctic Shadow, Books 1 and 2, Watch Eyes Trilogy, LOYAL MUSHERS, INDEED! This has been an emotional journey as well as a dangerous one, from...
by Joanne Sundell | Sep 19, 2015 | Blog
The “bettors” place to be in 1909, Nome, is at the Board of Trade Saloon on Front Street; with a shot of whiskey in one hand while the other safe-guards your hard-earned gold dust. The Bank of Nome holds your bet but you hold the cards. A good hand or a...
by Joanne Sundell | Aug 5, 2015 | Blog
Noted historian, Robert Conquest, died today in California. He was 98. I took particular note of this groundbreaking pioneer author, poet, and science fiction buff, since his lone footnote appears at the bottom of page 50, Chapter 3, Arctic Shadow, Watch Eyes...
by Joanne Sundell | May 9, 2015 | Blog
The oddest sensation came over me when I entered Barnes & Noble’s yesterday, as if I were stepping back in time to an imagined place that only exists in storybooks. Well, of course . . . bookstores are packed with storybooks! What else should I expect? It...
by Joanne Sundell | Apr 18, 2015 | Blog
Admittedly, I’m a ghost town girl at heart. This has never been clearer to me than in the recent weeks spent in the Colorado Rockies where I raised my children and my Siberian huskies. I recall the moment I first set foot on “ghost town terra...
by Joanne Sundell | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog
“Show me the money” and follow the gold trail through big towns and small towns, boom towns and busts; over ghost trails to ghost towns, ending in dust. Gold strikes have driven settlement in this country as much as anything else. Thousands of pioneers...