How boating in Alaska led to a book deal

Boating in Alaska © Laura Domela

Many of you Slowboat readers have been part of this journey—chatting with me about the project, beta-reading early drafts, and cheering me on. I'm deeply grateful, and want to officially announce here on Slowboat, that my novel, titled Untamed Coast, will be published by Ballantine/Penguin Random House in about a year.

How did we get here? Let's rewind a bit.

Back in 2016, while exploring the outside of Chichagof Island with friends, we met a guy in Rose's Bar in Pelican who told us about a place called "Radioville"—a tiny island where, in the 1930s, a retired Army Signal Corps officer named Joe Bauer had set up a radio outpost to link the gold mines with the outside world. Here’s our original post from that trip.

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