There were several resources I consulted to get the details of this book as right as I could, including: Iditarod Fact Book, 2nd edition, edited by Tricia Brown; “Out in the Great Alone” by Brian Phillips, ESPN/Grantland; the Alaska Department of Fish and Game website; Winterdance by Gary Paulsen; Yukon Alone by John Balzar; and the blogs from Dew Claw Kennel and SP Kennel.
I’ve had so many teachers throughout my life who saw that I enjoyed writing and encouraged me to keep it up; others who guided me as I worked to get better. Thank you to Bernita McMichael, Greg Mason, Matt Fitzgerald, Lloyd Kropp, Jo-Ann Mapson, Michael Parker, and Lee Zacharias. And to Vesta Mennemeyer, who was a different kind of teacher.
Thanks to Paw for advice on trapping and hunting.
And thanks, finally, to my parents, Kit and Jim Bradbury, who bought me all the books I wanted and gave me my first word processor; who didn’t think it was weird when they heard me through my closed bedroom door, reading aloud to myself (or if they did, they never said anything); who put up with phone calls that started with questions like “How long does it take to bleed to death?” Thanks for always supporting me.
About the Author
Born in Illinois, JAMEY BRADBURY has lived in Alaska for fifteen years, leaving only briefly to earn her MFA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Winner of an Estelle Campbell Memorial Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters, she has published fiction in Black Warrior Review, Sou’wester, and Zone 3, and she has written for the Anchorage Daily News, TheBillfold.com, and storySouth. Jamey lives in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bradbury, Jamey, author.
Title: The wild inside : a novel / Jamey Bradbury.
Description: New York, NY : William Morrow, 2018. | Description based on
print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not
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Identifiers: LCCN 2017042752 (print) | LCCN 2017057180 (ebook) | ISBN
9780062742018 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062741998 (hardcover) | ISBN
9780062742001 (softcover) | ISBN 9780062791528 (large print)
Subjects: LCSH: Fathers and daughters—Fiction. | Wilderness areas—Fiction.
| Psychological fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Coming
of Age. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction. | Bildungsromans.
Classification: LCC PS3602.R337 (ebook) | LCC PS3602.R337 W55 2018 (print) |
DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017042752
Digital Edition MARCH 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-274201-8
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-274199-8
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