from Andrea Dunlop’s newsletter August 15, 2018 One of the biggest challenges of being a working novelist is balancing the deep, focused work of actually writing your books with the promoting of those books, the part that requires you to be in the world both online and off. Both are necessary and I generally enjoy …
SUMMER BOOKFEST is coming! On Saturday, June 2, take a trip to Bainbridge Island for Seattle 7 Writers’ Summer Bookfest 2018 from noon to 2 PM at Eagle Harbor Books, starring over 20 award-winning, bestselling authors. They’ll be selling and signing their books, and chatting with you. In addition to all those great personalized books …
by Andrea Dunlop, for the Girl Friday Productions blog With hundreds of literary events each month and a thriving bookstore culture, Seattle is a place where a love for reading runs deep. Maybe it’s the luck of living in a progressive, arts-centric city or maybe it’s the nine or so dreary months of each year …
Girl Friday Productions and McMenamins present The Great Northwest Author Tour featuring Jamie Ford, internationally bestselling author of Songs of Willow Frost and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Andrea Dunlop, debut author of Losing the Light. –Sunday, May 22 in the Rambler Room at McMenamins Old St. Francis School Hotel in Bend, Oregon –Monday, May 23 in …
When you read this Americans-abroad novel, you may find yourself so fascinated by the characters and so seduced by the setting that you stay up way too late turning the pages. The reading hangover is worth it, believe me. I can’t help but think in wine terms after all the bottles consumed over the course of Brooke …
Last year, I attended the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association’s annual tradeshow on behalf of Girl Friday. I moderated a panel on building book communities and sat on a second panel about reading and influencing. Last year was my first time at the conference and I was amazed by the sense of community. Here were folks …
