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Join us for the Fort Colvile Summit this Saturday, Oct 18. IN PERSON for all Stevens County or Spokane WA --or JUMP ONLINE at 10 a.m. Pacific to hear about the impact of the Hudson's Bay Company trading post on neighboring tribes. I'll speak about Angus!
Link: crossroadsarchive.net/.../09/04/fo...
Link: crossroadsarchive.net/.../09/04/fo...
October 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Join us for the Fort Colvile Summit this Saturday, Oct 18. IN PERSON for all Stevens County or Spokane WA --or JUMP ONLINE at 10 a.m. Pacific to hear about the impact of the Hudson's Bay Company trading post on neighboring tribes. I'll speak about Angus!
Link: crossroadsarchive.net/.../09/04/fo...
Link: crossroadsarchive.net/.../09/04/fo...
TICK TOCK TIME TO SUBMIT -- TWO MORE DAYS! Oct 1 is the deadline for the Missouri Review's Jeffrey E Smith Editor's Prize -- a fabulous contest and wonderful publication. You might win-- I did!
September 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
TICK TOCK TIME TO SUBMIT -- TWO MORE DAYS! Oct 1 is the deadline for the Missouri Review's Jeffrey E Smith Editor's Prize -- a fabulous contest and wonderful publication. You might win-- I did!
How was the West really "won"? I talk about the crushing impact of Manifest Destiny on the mixed race peoples of the Rocky Mountain Northwest in this great conversation with Marc Oxoby of A Book and Its Author! Listen on your fave podcast platform: abookanditsauthor.libsyn.com/062-the-shin...
August 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
How was the West really "won"? I talk about the crushing impact of Manifest Destiny on the mixed race peoples of the Rocky Mountain Northwest in this great conversation with Marc Oxoby of A Book and Its Author! Listen on your fave podcast platform: abookanditsauthor.libsyn.com/062-the-shin...
Join us online Sunday, August 10th! Excited to be in conversation with @maryvolmer at Alta Mesa Center for the Arts and Maker, Mentor, Muse, at 1:00pm (Pacific time). We'll discuss my family epic, The Shining Mountains, a largely untold history of the American West.
Register: bit.ly/AlixChristie
Register: bit.ly/AlixChristie
July 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Join us online Sunday, August 10th! Excited to be in conversation with @maryvolmer at Alta Mesa Center for the Arts and Maker, Mentor, Muse, at 1:00pm (Pacific time). We'll discuss my family epic, The Shining Mountains, a largely untold history of the American West.
Register: bit.ly/AlixChristie
Register: bit.ly/AlixChristie
THIS BILL IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO OUR DEMOCRACY. Call like mad--everywhere you can but especially if these are your Senators:
June 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
THIS BILL IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO OUR DEMOCRACY. Call like mad--everywhere you can but especially if these are your Senators:
Wise word from Yoko, right here in my 'hood
Berlin, June 25
Berlin, June 25
June 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Wise word from Yoko, right here in my 'hood
Berlin, June 25
Berlin, June 25
BOOK & BROADSIDE GIVEAWAY! If you're on Instagram, go to my profile @alixechristie to click on this new giveaway -- you could win a pair of great stories of the tribal Pacific Northwest! (plus a broadside printed by letterpress by yours truly!)- IG only for now, alas, fellow blueskyers....
April 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
BOOK & BROADSIDE GIVEAWAY! If you're on Instagram, go to my profile @alixechristie to click on this new giveaway -- you could win a pair of great stories of the tribal Pacific Northwest! (plus a broadside printed by letterpress by yours truly!)- IG only for now, alas, fellow blueskyers....
Americans abroad! Annual PSA to re-register to vote and FIGHT LIKE HELL to keep Trump from taking away this precious right. Call your Congressional reps and demand they OPPOSE the so-called SAVE ACT that will make it impossible for millions of us (and millions at home) to cast a ballot. I just did.
April 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Americans abroad! Annual PSA to re-register to vote and FIGHT LIKE HELL to keep Trump from taking away this precious right. Call your Congressional reps and demand they OPPOSE the so-called SAVE ACT that will make it impossible for millions of us (and millions at home) to cast a ballot. I just did.
#handsoff our democracy in Berlin, demo today to protest the autocratic takeover of our country by MAGA extremist ideology @usbotschaft Americans abroad unite to defend our voting and human rights. Stop gutting our public services to pay for tax breaks for millionaires
April 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#handsoff our democracy in Berlin, demo today to protest the autocratic takeover of our country by MAGA extremist ideology @usbotschaft Americans abroad unite to defend our voting and human rights. Stop gutting our public services to pay for tax breaks for millionaires
The proof is in the LibGen pudding
April 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The proof is in the LibGen pudding
META stole my creative work. I am in solidarity with @societyofauthors and fellow writers marching to demand fair compensation in London today. A mega corporation that is little more than a pirate. For shame. #Metabookthieves #DotheWriteThing @annamazzolawriter h/t for graphic to @trewinagency
April 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
META stole my creative work. I am in solidarity with @societyofauthors and fellow writers marching to demand fair compensation in London today. A mega corporation that is little more than a pirate. For shame. #Metabookthieves #DotheWriteThing @annamazzolawriter h/t for graphic to @trewinagency
BERLIN PROTEST SATURDAY 5 April, 2 pm in front of the US Embassy. Trump & Musk, Hands Off our Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, science, medicine, veterans, children, schools -- stop them from trashing our country and hurting the most vulnerable just to give tax cuts to millionaires.
April 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
BERLIN PROTEST SATURDAY 5 April, 2 pm in front of the US Embassy. Trump & Musk, Hands Off our Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, science, medicine, veterans, children, schools -- stop them from trashing our country and hurting the most vulnerable just to give tax cuts to millionaires.
ugh, I'm there too, thanks for letting me know.
March 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
ugh, I'm there too, thanks for letting me know.
Beaver pelts make a special binding of #TheShiningMountains, my epic tale of a mixed race family caught in the crossfire of westward colonial expansion. Now in paperback. And thanks to @HNS for letting me talk about writing true family histories historicalnovelsociety.org/launch-alix-...
March 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Beaver pelts make a special binding of #TheShiningMountains, my epic tale of a mixed race family caught in the crossfire of westward colonial expansion. Now in paperback. And thanks to @HNS for letting me talk about writing true family histories historicalnovelsociety.org/launch-alix-...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR PAPERBACK...and yes,
it's a boy/girl/non-binary/all of the above! (No storks in #TheShiningMountains but lots of buffalo, bear, Scots fur traders, Native hunters & of course...settlers.) A
great family saga for book clubs. #historicalfiction #indigenous @unmpress.bsky.social
it's a boy/girl/non-binary/all of the above! (No storks in #TheShiningMountains but lots of buffalo, bear, Scots fur traders, Native hunters & of course...settlers.) A
great family saga for book clubs. #historicalfiction #indigenous @unmpress.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR PAPERBACK...and yes,
it's a boy/girl/non-binary/all of the above! (No storks in #TheShiningMountains but lots of buffalo, bear, Scots fur traders, Native hunters & of course...settlers.) A
great family saga for book clubs. #historicalfiction #indigenous @unmpress.bsky.social
it's a boy/girl/non-binary/all of the above! (No storks in #TheShiningMountains but lots of buffalo, bear, Scots fur traders, Native hunters & of course...settlers.) A
great family saga for book clubs. #historicalfiction #indigenous @unmpress.bsky.social
So excited to share the paperback of #TheShiningMountains with the world this coming week! Pre-order at my website or your favorite bookstore!
#historicalfiction #furtrade #indigenous #scotland #truelove University of New Mexico Press
#historicalfiction #furtrade #indigenous #scotland #truelove University of New Mexico Press
March 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
So excited to share the paperback of #TheShiningMountains with the world this coming week! Pre-order at my website or your favorite bookstore!
#historicalfiction #furtrade #indigenous #scotland #truelove University of New Mexico Press
#historicalfiction #furtrade #indigenous #scotland #truelove University of New Mexico Press
Beautiful Berlin afternoon, perfect for cycling through Alexanderplatz, spying a ton of crocus, admiring the Berlin flag at the Rotes Rathaus and flying one of my own in the international distress position: USA SOS
March 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Beautiful Berlin afternoon, perfect for cycling through Alexanderplatz, spying a ton of crocus, admiring the Berlin flag at the Rotes Rathaus and flying one of my own in the international distress position: USA SOS
Whip out your wee tartan purse and credit card for the PAPERBACK of #theshiningmountains! The heart-rending love story of Angus and Catherine McDonald, fighting to protect their Scots-Nez Perce family from American westward expansion. #historicalfiction #indigenoushistory #furtrade #scottish
February 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Whip out your wee tartan purse and credit card for the PAPERBACK of #theshiningmountains! The heart-rending love story of Angus and Catherine McDonald, fighting to protect their Scots-Nez Perce family from American westward expansion. #historicalfiction #indigenoushistory #furtrade #scottish
Resolutions passed in House & Senate are not yet a bill--keep shouting NO! Dems must BLOCK any government funding deal that doesn’t rein in DOGE, protect Congressionally appropriated funds & federal workers. GOP HAS NO GOVERNMENT FUNDING AFTER MARCH 14th: DEMS HAVE LEVERAGE AND MUST USE IT!
February 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Resolutions passed in House & Senate are not yet a bill--keep shouting NO! Dems must BLOCK any government funding deal that doesn’t rein in DOGE, protect Congressionally appropriated funds & federal workers. GOP HAS NO GOVERNMENT FUNDING AFTER MARCH 14th: DEMS HAVE LEVERAGE AND MUST USE IT!
Fantastic demonstration against the extreme right on a cold Sunday in Berlin....we need to keep showing these, and showing up!!
February 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Fantastic demonstration against the extreme right on a cold Sunday in Berlin....we need to keep showing these, and showing up!!
History cannot be altered. The past occurred and is documented. Read #TheShiningMountains for a true tale of the course and terrible cost of Manifest Destiny in the Rocky Mountain West. An Editor's Choice title from the Historical Novels Review and my family's story, Pre-order the paperback today.
February 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
History cannot be altered. The past occurred and is documented. Read #TheShiningMountains for a true tale of the course and terrible cost of Manifest Destiny in the Rocky Mountain West. An Editor's Choice title from the Historical Novels Review and my family's story, Pre-order the paperback today.
Show up to defend democracy!!
February 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Show up to defend democracy!!
ANGUS McDONALD SAYS: give that girl a wee star or five on Amazon or Goodreads! My great-great-great-uncle, hero and husband to Catherine Baptiste. Who knew in 1866 that authors need 50+ ratings to break through! Now you do. THANKS! PRE-ORDER the paperback (Coming March 4) at alixchristie.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
ANGUS McDONALD SAYS: give that girl a wee star or five on Amazon or Goodreads! My great-great-great-uncle, hero and husband to Catherine Baptiste. Who knew in 1866 that authors need 50+ ratings to break through! Now you do. THANKS! PRE-ORDER the paperback (Coming March 4) at alixchristie.com
JUST ONE MONTH until my lovely family saga arrives with nice floppy covers--and an equally nice discount! PRE-ORDERS are essential so saddle on up and grab one at your favorite online hitching post! #historicalfiction #familysaga #nativehistory #furtrade #indigenous #scottishhistory @unmpress
February 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
JUST ONE MONTH until my lovely family saga arrives with nice floppy covers--and an equally nice discount! PRE-ORDERS are essential so saddle on up and grab one at your favorite online hitching post! #historicalfiction #familysaga #nativehistory #furtrade #indigenous #scottishhistory @unmpress
On July 20, 1944, the (failed) plan to assassinate Hitler was to be followed by a government declaration including these words. "Decent treatment" doesn't go far enough, but is a reminder of what's at stake 80 years later in Trump's America. RESIST TYRANNY.
German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin
German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin
January 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
On July 20, 1944, the (failed) plan to assassinate Hitler was to be followed by a government declaration including these words. "Decent treatment" doesn't go far enough, but is a reminder of what's at stake 80 years later in Trump's America. RESIST TYRANNY.
German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin
German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin