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 …
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, …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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. …
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 …
