On Monday, April 1, booksellers from around the region gathered in Portland with authors and publishers following a booksellers’ education session from the American Booksellers Association. The Authors on the Map book signing and a happy hour hosted by Forest Avenue Press, Counterpoint Press, and Tin House Books were an opportunity for booksellers to meet the folks behind great new and upcoming books and to spend time catching up with book industry friends. Check out the fun, and remember that you can preorder upcoming titles from your favorite independent bookstore— buy on their website or in-store now, and that book you’re excited about will be waiting for you on release day!
Laura Stanfill, publisher of Forest Avenue Press and founder of the Main Street Writers Movement, took photographs of the events, which were held at McMenamin’s Kennedy School.
One bookseller’s stack of books from participating authors.
Michelle Ruiz Keil, author of “All of Us with Wings”
Adriana Paliobagis of the Country Bookshelf talks with Rosanne Parry (seated) author of “A Wolf Called Wander”
Yuki Martin displayed her “Super Cute Origami Kit” with adorable origami she made.
Left to right: author Henry Thomas (with his fantasy novel “The Window and the Mirror”), Rare Bird Books sales and marketing director Julia Callahan, and author Susan Holmes McKagan (with her novel “The Velvet Rose”)
Noelle Salazar, the author of “The Flight Girls”
Kevan Atteberry
Ghost Cat
(Neal Porter Books)
Pete Fromm
A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How to Do
(Counterpoint)
Molly Gloss
Unforseen: Stories
(Saga Press)
Debra Gwartney
I Am a Stranger Here Myself
(University of New Mexico Press)
Melissa Hart
Better with Books: 500 Diverse Books to Ignite Empathy and Encourage
Self-Acceptance in Tweens and Teens
(Sasquatch Books)
Michelle Ruiz Keil
All of Us with Wings
(Soho Teen)
Rob Kugler
A Dog Named Beautiful: A Marine, a Dog, and a Long Road Trip Home
(Flatiron Books)
Karl Marlantes
Deep River
(Atlantic Monthly Press)
Yuki Martin
Super Cute Origami Kit: Kawaii Paper Projects You Can Decorate in Thousands of Ways!
(Tuttle Publishing)
Susan Holmes McKagan
The Velvet Rose
(Rare Bird Books)
Catherine Lazar Odelle
Pepper and Frannie
(Page Street Kids)
Rosanne Parry
A Wolf Called Wander
(Greenwillow Books)
Liz Prato
Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privilege: Essays on Hawai’i
(Overcup Press)
Noelle Salazar
The Flight Girls
(MIRA Books)
John Shewey
Oregon Festivals: A Guide to Fun, Friends, Food & Frivolity
(West Margin Press)
Henry Thomas
The Window and the Mirror: Book One
(Rare Bird Books)
Willy Vlautin
Don’t Skip Out on Me
(Harper Perennial)
Laura Stanfill took this incredible self portrait at the Kennedy School venue. (This is way too fancy to be a selfie.)
Tegan Tigani of Queen Anne Book Company wrote this haiku on a chalkboard at the event hotel, McMenamin’s Kennedy School.
