Northwest indie booksellers recently convened in Portland for a day of education sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, followed by an afternoon of “research” and “professional development.” Otherwise known as an author party.
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association invited a dozen Northwest authors (and one bonus illustrator) to lay out their wares, new and forthcoming titles they hope will stick in the heads of booksellers who will then stick them in the hands of customers.
NWBL gathered up samples of all titles featured at the “Authors on the Map” reception, and one lucky follower can pretend to be a fact-finding bookseller and bring home his or her own bag of a dozen crispy-fresh books to sample!
Love, Santa and Back to School with Bigfoot
Martha Brockenbrough
Gifted
John Daniel
Make a Zine!: Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution
Joe Biel
Love and Other Consolation Prizes
Jamie Ford
So good they traded the baby.
Narrow River, Wide Sky
Jenny Forrester
Wildman
J.C. Geiger
Yearbook
Jesse Edward Johnson
PNW Veg
Kim O’Donnel
The Mercy of the Tide
Keith Rosson
Keys to the City
Lisa Schroeder
Hidden Palms: A Butch Bliss Novel
Harry Bryant
Hooper’ Revolution
Dennie Wendt
Share in the Comments who you’d like to meet at an author party at your local indie and you’re eligible to win. NWBL will draw a winner in a week.
Thomas Pynchon, if only for the photo op.
I just read an interview with “Wildman” author J.C. Geiger, who was at this event, and he talks about fanboy stalking Tobias Wolff at a conference. “… the proliferation of white mustaches at literary conferences is so severe that I kept false spotting him.”
He got a photo with his idol, and he has a son named Tobias.
I would love, love, LOVE to meet Devon Monk, an urban fantasy author who lives in Portland, Oregon, and whose prose is sterling. She’s got 5 or more series out there, and I’ve read them all and loved every single book. She never disappoints with her quirky characters or her swift plots full of adventure and magic. I’d also like to meet authors Lilith Saintcrow (Jill Kismet and Dante Valentine and Bannon and Clare series)and MJ Rose, because they are also authors whose works never disappoint. Gail Carriger and Lindy West would be fun to meet, too, and I think they’d have a lot to talk about, in terms of women in publishing.