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Aug 27, 2014
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Launching Anung at the Center of the Ojibwa Universe

Thank you all. Thank you Shirley, the Director of the Museum of Ojibwa Culture, for inviting me to tell my stories during History Week, and thank you for being such a gracious hostess, and thank you for your enthusiasm for Anung's Journey. And thank you for introducing me to so many wonderful people. Thank you Tony Grodin, an elder in the Ojibwa community, for teaching me how to make a drum, and thank you for the wonderful story about how the Dakota who first envisioned the drum, Tailfeather Woman, shared it with the Ojibwa people. Thank you Joanne Carey, an elder in the Odawa community, for the wonderful vest you gave me, and thank you for your presence as we...

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Jul 28, 2014
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Anung at the Museum of Ojibwa Culture: Shirley Sorrell

As the planning continues for the launch of Anung's Journey at the Museum of Ojibwa Culture on August 21st and 22nd, I have gotten to know Shirley Sorrell, the Museum's Director. This woman is a delightful force for good in the world and I am lucky to have met her. She has been the Director of the Museum for 13 years and the scope of new indoor and outdoor exhibits that have been added is impressive and it's fun listening to her talk about what's to come. Right now they are building a new Huron longhouse and creating a documentary of the construction, capturing a demonstration of the old ways. New wigwams are being added to the Ojibwa village. Shirley recently helped a PhD...

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Jul 07, 2014
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Anung at the Museum of Ojibwa Culture

What a gift. It seems almost too good to be true. The second novel of mine that Light Messages is publishing this year is Anung's Journey and the Museum of Ojibwa Culture wants us to launch the book there, in St. Ignace, Michigan, on the Upper Peninsula side of the Straights of Mackinac, during a two day event, August 21st and 22nd. This book tells the story of the Ojibwa orphan Anung and his vision quest to find the greatest chief of all the people, a journey that takes place "in the days before the white man came to Turtle Island". As he travels east he meets other Indian tribes--he is outfitted for winter by Oddawa traders and he participates...

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Jun 24, 2014
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Win a signed copy of The 53rd Parallel

I am delighted by the initial reader response to The 53rd Parallel. It makes me all the more eager to get my novel into more hands and so I was delighted when recently I was approached by Kevin Qian with the offer to help with my social media and digital marketing. Kevin and I met when he took a couple of classes from me at Duke and he has been doing great work building web sites and promoting them for clients for the past couple of years. Kevin has recommended that we kick start the building of my Twitter followers @carlnordgren by running a quick promotion. So on July 1st we will give away three signed copies of my...

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May 12, 2014
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Marie, my wife, is reading The 53rd Parallel

She started yesterday, after our early morning bike ride.  I walked into the living room and there she was, reading my book. Later I found her in her office, reading my book. I couldn't believe it. I had never seen anyone read a book I wrote, and here I saw the most important person in my life, reading my book.  After our Mother's Day brunch she picked it back up again, and all day long she read my book.  She knew something about the stories, of course, but had never read the book.  I was fascinated by how uplifted I felt each time I walked into the room and saw her reading it. Thanks honey.  I hope you had as nice...

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May 06, 2014
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In two days I get to be a novelist.

It's been my lifelong ambition, to be a novelist. When I was five I wanted to be a  cowboy. Soon after, and until the age of around 15 or 16, I wanted to be the shortstop for the Chicago Cubs.  It was about that same time I decided I wanted to be, that I needed to be, a novelist. It's finally going to happen.  On May 8th my publisher, Light Messages, will officially release my first novel, The 53rd Parallel, the first of The River of Lakes Trilogy, and I will toast myself and call myself a novelist. And yes, I still want to be a cowboy.  And oh my, what a great novel it would make when the 62 year old...

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Apr 08, 2014
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A review from an Irish reader

I was so delighted when I saw this first review of The 53rd Parallel from an Irish reader, Eamon Howley, and read how much he enjoyed the Irish scenes. From the beginning I have been fascinated by the idea of bringing together Irish and First Nations Ojibway cultures and stories--the working title of this book was Dreams of Irish and Indians.  I love to listen to Irish and the Indian voices, and smile each time I hear them in conversation with each other. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20560424-the-53rd-parallel#other_reviews    ...

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Mar 27, 2014
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Thank you, Robin Metz

I wasted away so much time in college.  I went to Knox College from 1969 to 1973, the ripe college campus counter culture years, at least at Knox, and I had a lot of counter culture fun. And once I figured out the professors had become so radical about the Vietnam War that they wouldn't flunk me and take away my student deferment, I stopped going to class and had even more fun. So I played soccer, and I partied, and I wasted so much precious opportunity. But there was one opportunity I did respect, that I cherished even, which was attending every Creative Writing class I could with Robin Metz. All by itself the time I spent with Robin could...

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I want to thank all the folks who have been so important to my writing. My wife, Marie, and my three daughters, Sarah Rose, Brita, and Krista Anne. Steve Fobister. Elizabeth Turnbull. Robin Metz. Kevin Qian. And my father, Loran Nordgren.

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