Kevin Emerson’s newest middle grade novel, Drifters, is a mystery/sci-fi about a 13-year-old girl searching for her missing friend on the Washington coast. While a tale with multiple timelines and universes, Drifters is also a simple story about holding onto friendship. It is also a love letter to the PNW coast. RK: What was your …
Last Day on Mars is the beginning of the adventure of a lifetime– or, taking into account stasis pods, space travel, and the 4th dimension, several earth lifetimes. It is great sci fi: the perfect mix of mind-expanding and page turning, filled with doom and hope. I’m delighted to recommend this to readers who enjoy exciting …
Two Pacific Northwest booksellers recently joined the American Booksellers Association Board of Directors. Jenny Cohen of Waucoma Books in Hood River, OR and Tegan Tigani of Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle, WA started on the board this spring. They were the point people on a bookstore bus tour for booksellers at a recent national …
Ah, BEA. I could feel the gravitational pull of Javits from our hotel. For 3 whole days, Javits Convention Center in New York, New York, that angular, light-filled building, was packed with brilliant booksellers whose brains swim in letters and words, authors who make it all possible, and the wily publishers and publicists who bring …
If you stopped into your favorite indie bookstore last week and didn’t see all the regular faces, it may have been because folks were in New York City for the annual BookExpo America, a.k.a. BEA. When you see them now, they may look verrrry tired because they’ve been up late every night reading advance readers …
