NW Book Lovers
From the Pacific NW Booksellers Association | promoting independents since 1965
  • Find a store
  • NW authors
  • Classifieds
  • Browse
    • N.W. Voices: Essays
    • Conversations: Interviews
    • The Storefront: NW booksellers
    • Face Out:
      Bookseller recommended
    • One Nightstand:
      Reader recommended
    • Award Winners
    • A Cup of News
    • Best Foot Forward
    • Doodles
    • Reading-Related Rambles
    • The Shelf Talker
    • Turning Pages
  • Indie NW Bestsellers
  • About Us
Browse: Home / author events

author events

Nov

17

2023

Phinney Books’ Holiday Bookfest
Saturday Nov. 18

Phinney Books welcomes you to the 14th annual Holiday Bookfest featuring dozens of authors signing their books. Along with the author signings, a selection of authors will be reading from their books, and Greenwood’s Bureau of Fearless Ideas tutoring center will create an interactive Bookmakers Space, where new or seasoned writers can put together a …

Nov

14

2023

Beautiful Flaws

If you were to have seen my grandmother walking down a sidewalk of Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood during the 1960s or ’70s, you might glance at the slightly overweight, gray-haired, conservatively-dressed woman, and then move on to look at a billboard or shop window. Large black purse in one hand, shopping bag in the other, …

Aug

1

2023

Puget Sound Book Festival,
Port Orchard, WA. Sunday, August 6!

Meet amazing authors, browse offerings from independent bookstores like Wicked Words, Salmonberry Books, Ballast Book Company, Away with Words, BookIt Nook, Treat Yo’ Shelf Used Books, Find the Path Books, Invitation Bookshop, Clover Daydreams, Arledge Comics, Peruse the Stacks, and The Neverending Bookshop, plus drinks from Yoked Farmhouse & Brewery of Port Orchard, the event …

Jul

10

2023

No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister

Erica is a master of linked stories, and this is one of her finest. It is also a celebration of books and the power they have in affecting readers’– and authors’– lives. By telling the stories of the author and nine very different readers. she illustrates how no two persons ever read the same book. …

Jun

6

2023

Lily Meade Shares Her Love for Indies as She Gets Ready to Launch “The Shadow Sister”

Preorder through Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA for personalized copies of debut author Lily Meade’s thrilling YA novel, The Shadow Sister. Enjoy a live event with Lily Meade and Kendare Blake for the launch event June 27, 2023 at 7:00. Advance registration is required but free. You can register at the event …

May

2

2023

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by
Claire Dederer

Once I started this book, I couldn’t put it down. Claire Dederer aptly asks questions and ruminates on separating the art from the artist (or monster) from many different angles. I especially loved the exploration of what it means to be a fan and caught up in parasocial relationships. Between clever analysis and examination, there …

Apr

18

2023

Madison Books welcomed Alle C. Hall, author of “As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back”

From Madison Books, Seattle, WA: [April is] National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, which makes this an especially fitting time for us to host author Alle C. Hall. She [was with us Sunday April 16] to read from and discuss her new novel, As Far As You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back. The …

Mar

6

2023

Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair by June Gervais

In 1985, it isn’t easy for a woman to break into the tattoo business, especially not in a small town like Blue Claw. When Gina turns 18, her brother reluctantly lets her apprentice at his tattoo shop, and the next year is filled with unexpected surprises. I was completely wrapped up in Gina’s coming-of-age story. …

Jan

24

2023

Seeking Surprise: A Poet’s Pursuit of an Unresolved Life– An Original Essay by 2023 PNBA Book Award Winner Caitlin Scarano

This fall, I taught an online writing course meant to help poets put together and prepare their first poetry collections for publication. Though I’d designed the course to be about the practicalities of structuring, formatting, and submitting their manuscripts, by the third class meeting, our conversations had diverged to the role of surprise in poetry. …

Jan

20

2023

An Original Essay by 2023 PNBA Book Award Winner Putsata Reang

My mother sat in the very last row of chairs in the author event space at Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon, the day my memoir, Ma and Me, was officially released. She smiled with pride as her gaze skipped across the room, surely taking in the improbability of the moment: her daughter, a …

Older posts »

Search

Facebook icon Twitter icon Instagram icon
What are you reading?

Advertising information

We recommend

Of N.W. interest

  • Book Nook Bits for Teens
  • Brad Craft: Used Buyer
  • Literary Arts
  • Northwest Passages Book Club
  • Oregon Humanities
  • Paper Fort
  • Powell's Books Blog
  • Propellor
  • Seattle City of Lit Map
  • Seattle Indie Bookstore Day
  • Seattle Literary Map
  • Seattle Review of Books
  • The Complete Epiphanies
  • The Oregonian
  • The Seattle Times

Of national interest

  • Bookstore Romance Day
  • Bowie Bookclub
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Independent Bookstore Day
  • Indie Bob Spot
  • Indiebound
  • LA Times Jacket Copy
  • largehearted boy
  • Literary Hub
  • New York Times Books
  • NPR Books
  • Salon.com
  • The Book Man
  • The Rumpus

On the industry

  • Book Publishers Northwest
  • Booksellers of America
  • Bookselling This Week
  • Northwest Assoc. of Book Publishers
  • PW Daily
  • Shelf Awareness

On kids’ books

  • 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast
  • From Tots to Teens

For library lovers

  • An Embarrassment of Riches
  • Awful Library Books
  • EarlyWord
  • Shelf Talk
  • Unshelved
  • Home
  • Find a Store: Plan a Visit or Shop Online!
  • NW authors
  • Classifieds
  • Indie NW Bestsellers
  • About Us

© 2010-2023 NW Book Lovers

A production of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.