An excerpt from Forest Avenue Press publisher and author Laura Stanfill’s August 30, 2026 substack: […] The Sea-Glass Shore by Julie Salmon Kelleher[,] Forest Avenue’s Sept. 1 release[,] is a selkie story that is not about entrapment and escape like the original seal-person myth. It’s a novel about what it takes to stay—in a marriage, in …
Lucy is irresistible. In this beautiful, layered, emotional story about a brother’s death, a resilient young girl finds support in unexpected places. I love how believably flawed the adults are in this novel and how the relationship between Lucy and her brother are depicted with so much heart without shying away from the hard parts. …
Puget Sound Book Festival Saturday, August 9 12-4 Mark your calendars! The Puget Sound Book Festival is returning to the Bremerton Waterfront for its 4th year. The festival is designed to celebrate indie bookstores and highlight what makes each attending shop unique, giving readers the opportunity to meet, experience, and explore a wide range of …
From Miriam Gershow, the author of Closer: This week saw the culmination of a year’s work on the 100 Notable Small Press Books project I started last winter. Forty remarkable reviewers spent 2025 reading small press books, and Lit Hub published the final list on Monday. Click on the image to read the list. Sign up to …
Oregon author Gabriel Urza, author of The Silver State, was published on lithub.com. When Telling Your Own Story Gets in the Way of Processing Trauma AUTHOR EVENT with Waucoma Books in Hood River, OR Local author Gabriel Urza in conversation with Sierra Crane Murdoch Thursday, Nov. 6th, 6pm at the Hood River Library In Silver State, …
In Daniel Tam-Claiborne’s Transplants, a chance encounter at a university campus in rural Qixian sets the lives of two young women on radically different trajectories: Lin, a reticent Chinese student who ends up matriculating at a community college in rural Ohio, and Liz, a grieving Chinese American ESL teacher who stays in China to learn …
The Bigfoot Kids’ Book Festival kicks off Friday October 10, 2025 at 5:30 at the Archer Hotel in Redmond, WA with a keynote by author, illustrator, and Caldecott Award winner Dan Santat. Free tickets are required and are available at the event link. The following day, Saturday October 11, the festival runs from 10:00- 4:00 …
Dear Reader, I had a great time launching Kitty at A Children’s Place in Portland […] this fall! The event at Boulder Book Store has some history behind it. The last time I appeared on their stage (and they really have a stage!) was to support Noah McNichol and the Backstage Ghost. The date was Wednesday, March 11, 2020, …
Mary Desch, writing under the pen name MM Desch, brings years of psychiatric expertise to her debut psychological thriller, Tangled Darkness. The novel follows Dr. Leslie Schoen, a psychiatrist who becomes a suspect when a clinical assistant is found dead amid missing opioid allegations. She becomes ensnared in a deadly scheme of clinic conspiracies and …
I grew up in the shadow of mountains, along the mucky edges of the Nisqually River Delta on the outskirts of Olympia. On a rare clear day, you could see the Olympics to the West. Mount Rainier towered to the East. Our rambler abutted a tract of undeveloped forest land near Luhr Beach. Expansive, wild, …
