After a crazy fall, we decided not to host a Christmas Day friends-who-stayed-in-town dinner for the first time in several years. In thinking how we could do something with our time and freedom other than lay among the wads of wrapping paper, eat, watch football (me), my wife Megan came up with a brilliant idea. …
This week, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Book Publishers Northwest monthly meeting. Book Publishers Northwest (BPNW) is a regional affiliate of the Independent Book Publishers Association. About 20 attended the meeting in the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle. Rosemary Jones, author and longtime board member/ web editor for BPNW, organized the meeting as …
The title that served as artistic inspiration for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2013 Holiday Catalog, What the Heart Knows by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenksi, just had a big week. It hit the Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List and was named to the Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2013 list! It’s easy to …
Mary Swanson celebrates her 25th anniversary with The Bookloft (Enterprise, OR) today. “It is a startlingly long time,” she says, “but I’m still having fun and people are are still buying books, so on I go.” The store is hosting an all-day party with cake, balloons, specials and drawings for giveaways. Among the prizes are Penguin beach …
Seattle’s Queen Anne Book Company opens today in the 1811 Queen Anne Avenue storefront vacated by the similarly named Queen Anne Books last October. That’s a lot of Queen Annes! The grand opening celebration will run from Friday, March 1 through Sunday, March 3, 9 am to 9 pm every day with a non-stop parade of …
It was with sadness and not a little bitterness that we reported the fate of Seattle’s Queen Anne Books this past fall, but all is sweet on the hill today. The blindsided store will rise, on its old turf, as Queen Anne Book Company in late February. From yesterday’s press release: Ever since the doors of …
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, the indie bookstore booster behind this blog, announced the winners of their annual book awards today. Congratulations are in order for Sherman Alexie (Seattle, WA) for Blasphemy; Jonathan Evison (Bainbridge Island, WA) for The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving; Eowyn Ivey (Palmer, AK) for The Snow Child; Lucia Perillo (Olympia, WA) for …
The Awards Committee for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has announced its shortlist for the best books of 2012 by Northwest authors. These 12 books and their authors are the nominees. The PNBA Awards Committee is made up of nine volunteer booksellers from throughout our region. This year they considered more than 200 titles published in …
Wayne Cornell, editor at Caxton Press, is retiring after nearly 14 years with the Caldwell, Idaho publisher. Cornell joined Caxton in 1996 after a career in daily newspapers. Caxton Press, founded in 1928, by J. H. Gipson, is one of the oldest publishing houses west of the Mississippi. Caxton specializes in nonfiction books about the …
Dear Members: It’s once again time to re-establish your relationship with PNBA by paying your 2010 dues. If you renew now, or before Friday, February 26, your dues are just $100 (dues will be $125 after Feb 26th). That’s a pretty sweet deal considering what you get from us: · A yearly tradeshow with FREE education sessions for …
