In addition to hosting a puzzle contest, I’m celebrating Alaska Book Week with some flash interviews with some Alaska kidlit authors. Today, I want to introduce you to Deb Vanasse.

Meet Deb Vanasse

Location: Eagle River

Home on the Web: www.debvanasse.com

You’re making a float based on one of your books for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. What do you do? Totem pole plus critters all around. First step: Commission illustrator Erik Brooks to bring his brilliant illustrations to life. By the way, Totem Tale has its own coloring pages and music.

The main character for your next book is a dessert. Yes, the yummy after-dinner thing. What dessert is it? Blueberry crisp

What’s an Alaska person or place or situation or theme you’d like to write and/or illustrate a book about? Wilderness adventure with girls

A celebrity falls in love with your book and sings its praises on a tv show, thus making you rich, famous, beautiful, smart, physically fit, etc. Who is this celebrity and what is the show? Stephen Colbert, the Late Show

What Alaska wildflower represents your work in progress? Fireweed

Books:

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A Distant Enemy Amazon Powell’s	Out of the Wilderness Amazon Powell’s
Lucy’s Dance Amazon Powell’s	Totem Tale Amazon Powell’s	Black Wolf of the Glacier Amazon
Alaska Animal Babies Amazon Powell’s	Under the Midnight Sun Amazon Powell’s