Authors, illustrators, and famous booklovers from around the country have rallied to create original, one-of-a-kind piggy banks you can bid on to support booksellers in hardship. The fundraiser goes through this Friday, September 30. From the Binc Foundation and Nashville’s Parnassus Books: Parnassus Books and the Binc Foundation are dedicated to helping book people across …
Whenever I travel, I can’t resist bookstores, and of course, while I’m browsing, I’m always looking for books I know and love. Above, I visited Book Passage in San Francisco, right in the Ferry Building. The store is managed by my friend and former Pacific Northwest bookseller, Cheryl McKeon. On the store’s staff picks, I found …
Independent Bookstore Day will take place on on Saturday May 2, 2015 at more than 400 bookstores nationwide. It celebrates the reading community and bricks-and-mortar bookstores. For one day, and one day only, a number of very limited, unique, word-based items and books will be available in more than 400 independent stores across the country. These aren’t …
The American Bookseller’s Association recently announced 10 adult titles and 10 children’s/YA titles that have been chosen by panels of booksellers from around the country to be featured as Indies Introduce Debut Authors and New Voices. Barbara Theroux of Fact & Fiction in Missoula, Montana represented our region on the adult panel, and Tegan Tigani …
While nwbooklovers.org is a website with a regional focus, it has an international reach. Recently, debut author Kathryn Fox from the UK contacted us via our facebook page. I found her self-published memoir, Stolen Memories, through IndieBound and Kobo. We started a discussion about self-publishing internationally, and I thought Kathryn’s experiences as an author from …
Have you heard more howling than usual in your neighborhood? Are kids examining the ground for tracks and unusual scat? Bigfoot/Sasquatch Fever seems to be catching in the Pacific Northwest, in large part due to the creativity and stamina of Martha Brockenbrough and Suzanne Selfors, Washington authors who are promoting their books about elusive, large, …
This debut poetry collection from emeritus King’s bookseller(!) Valentine is a beautiful meditation on family, love, and bravery as well as racist violence and grief. With poems ranging from the joyful to the heartbreaking, support a local poet and buy this today! –sweet pea, King’s Books, Tacoma, WA Valentine explores the ways we touch one …
Even if your local independent bookstore is not open for browsing, you can still support independent bookstores every day and celebrate Independent Bookstore Day this Saturday. Independent Bookstore Day was rescheduled for this Saturday, August 29, when the original April 25 festivities had to be postponed. Because social distancing measures are still so necessary for …
Seattle Mystery Bookshop, which moved to its current location at 117 Cherry Street in downtown Seattle in 2005, will be moving back to its previous, smaller space at the end of August 2014 (this month). They’ll still carry a wonderful selection of mysteries (and since they have such great relationships with authors, many autographed copies). …
