If you’ve seen the book trailers for Wicked Plants and Wicked Bugs, you know that Amy Stewart is not just a diligent researcher but that she’s wicked quirky and fun. She knows how to make anything (earthworms, weeds, bedbugs) a topic you want to read. That’s why her books continue to end up on The …
Beginning as a weekly coffee date between Jennie Shortridge and Garth Stein, the Seattle7Writers has turned into a league of superfriends in the writing world. The group includes nine core members and more than 30 “friends.” To give you a sampling of who we’re dealing with, writers who support the group include Tom Robbins, Jim …
Anyone who has read Chelsea Cain’s gory and intense thrillers about serial killer Gretchen Lowell could easily conclude that the author is a sordid woman who has an air of darkness. Anyone who has actually talked with her knows differently. Cain is lively, quick to smile, prone to self-deprecation and at the ready for a …
Established in 1980, Village Books is an indie bookstore icon located in the historic Fairhaven district of Bellingham, Washington. Check out their blog, their Staff Recs, their Reading Groups and their Chuckanut Radio Hour. We asked four staff members to share recent recommendations with NWBL. Sheri Toomey, a bookseller at Village Books for three years, has …
Saturday evening, booklovers gathered at the Seattle Public Library Central Branch to announce and celebrate the winners of the Washington State Book Awards. The ceremony was hosted by Nancy Guppy, host and producer of the Seattle Channel’s “Art Zone with Nancy Guppy.” The winners receive a $500 honorarium to go with the recognition. The Washington Center …
THE weekend for books in the Pacific Northwest is happening right now, as in today and tomorrow and the next day. If you’re here, you know why: the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Tradeshow in Tacoma from Oct. 13-15 and Wordstock in Portland from Oct. 11-15. We’ll get to the Tradeshow in another post, but let’s …
“I have always been one to take notes. Whether I’m driving in a car, sitting in a bar, watching a movie, reading a book, a pen is never far from the hand. In those days I wrote often in pocket-sized moleskin notebooks. I filled dozens and dozens of them with sentences I admired, research unearthed, …
(Editor’s note: We first published this interview with Lidia Yuknavitch last March. We’re republishing it to celebrate her 2012 PNBA Award, which she’ll accept Tuesday, March 6 at 7 pm at Broadway Books in Portland.) If you love memoir or poetry or Ken Kesey or have ever spent time on the planet Sorrow, you’ll want …
We were beginning to wonder what Paul Collins had up his sleeve for his next book, but we hadn’t heard a word from that publisher contact who had kept us in the loop all these many books. Forgotten innovators, personal discovery in and out of a town of books, autism, Thomas Paine (the man and …
We’ve all been there. Some kid brags and brags about the great book they just read and then rubs your nose in the fact that you can’t read it, no one else can, because it isn’t out yet. Oh, the scars of childhood. Well, little Miss Braggy Pants, you don’t know about aunt Lindsey, the …
