Monica Drake’s second novel, The Stud Book, is like “Friends” for the punk rock crowd, a stripped down, no-holds-barred story of 30-somethings in the various places that 30-somethings find themselves—with kids and terrified, desperately trying to have kids, or desperately against having kids. Her first book, Clown Girl, was optioned by Kristen Wiig. Monica lives …
“She’d been alive thirty-nine years and only remembered four days of it.” In Jennie Shortridge’s fifth novel, Love Water Memory, Lucie Walker wakes up knee-deep in the San Francisco Bay with no memory of how she got there. She returns home to Seattle with her fiancé, Grady, and tries to rebuild her life with him …
As season three of the HBO series “Game of Thrones” looms, Village Books is letting their Stark flag fly (we assume there are no Lannisters in the mix). Any customer who purchases any George R.R. Martin title, Song of Ice and Fire series or other, from this regal and decadent display by April 2 will …
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The Village Literates, as we’ve just christened this troupe, make it known that the “no indies” option of the Kindle is no option at all. Love your local? Go Kobo.
When zinester/illustrator Nicole J. Georges was twenty-three, a psychic told her that her father was alive, big news to her after believing he was dead for most of her life. Georges tried her best to move on, but she struggled with the revelation. In a sudden act of desperation, she reached out to the conservative radio talk show host Dr. Laura, …
NWBL contributor and Village Books’ staffer Lindsey McGuirk sent out this New Year’s greeting in Village Books’ newsletter yesterday and we thought we’d reprint it here, with good reading wishes to all of our readers. “I don’t know about you, but I completely buy into the idea of a new year being a fresh start. …
Things are looking pretty great for Cherie Priest. In 2010, Boneshaker, the first book in her Clockwork Century series, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel. Last year, the movie rights to Boneshaker were acquired by Hammer …
The same week my book Restless Fires: Young John Muir’s Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf in 1867-68 came out, my wife and I saw “Lincoln,” Spielberg’s tour-de-force from the same Civil War era. I was delighted to see the screenwriter’s reference to Lincoln’s pivotal journey at age 17. He witnessed slavery first-hand when desperate runaway …
The day I decided to write Dishing Up Washington, a cookbook that celebrates the state’s foodways through recipes and stories, I went to my neighborhood farmers’ market. It’s on Seattle’s Phinney Ridge, in the northern part of the city, near the giant windmill sign that keeps watch over the city’s famous Red Mill Burgers. From …
Walking around the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association trade show this year, I had a task at hand. I needed to corner my fellow book-loving cohorts and ask “What’s the one book you read this year that floored you?” If you want to see a book lover stopped in his tracks, just ask that question. He’ll …
