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Oct

1

2021

Be Yourself and Sell More Books

Published on catapult.co September 13, 2021 As a part of our Money Week series, Laura Stanfill argues that you should work with your publisher to do what feels organic, genuine, and true to you as a human being. I’m running out of copies of Joanna Rose’s A Small Crowd of Strangers. My warehouse report says …

Sep

4

2018

Seattle7Writers to Retire Nonprofit Service

An announcement from Seattle7Writers’ co-founders, Jennie Shortridge and Garth Stein: In July 2019, our nonprofit organization will celebrate its 10th anniversary, a milestone neither of us, nor the other founding members, could have imagined. It’s with a little sadness and a lot of satisfaction that we announce we’ll formally retire the nonprofit service organization aspect of …

May

29

2018

30-Second Advocacy: Link to IndieBound.org

This wasn’t what I intended to write. I had planned a whole thing about the books I love which appeal to my inner 10- to 14-year-old boy. But, then I started noticing something on my social media feeds: Authors, some of whom had close ties to the independent bookselling community, were almost exclusively linking to …

Aug

16

2016

Embrace Romance

Earlier this year I read this post [about the dearth of Romance in independent bookstores] on one of my favorite book-community websites. And then I read the comments and–I am not being hyperbolic here–it brought tears to my eyes, because I hear things like this all the time and from both sides of the equation. But, …

May

21

2015

Willamette Writers Conference

Willamette Writers Conference Registration Open

Willamette Writers Annual Conference August 7-9th this year at the Lloyd Center DoubleTree hotel in Portland offers opportunities to meet film agents, managers, and producers; and literary agents and publishers, as well as opportunities to attend over 80 workshops on the craft of writing and marketing. Registration is open now (with Early Bird pricing until June …

Jan

12

2015

Women & Words Retreat
at Willows Lodge

  Seattle authors Kerry Colburn and Jennifer Worrick, the founders of The Business of Books, still have limited space available for their brand-new women’s publishing retreat on Jan. 31 at the Willows Lodge in Woodinville! The retreat is “Women & Words at Willows Lodge,” an overnight intensive.  All Jen and Kerry’s talks on publishing, author platform, marketing, proposals, and …

May

22

2014

1

remark

Tegan Tigani of NWBL and Rosemary Jones of BPNW

Book Publishers Northwest and Pacific Northwest Booksellers

This week, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Book Publishers Northwest monthly meeting. Book Publishers Northwest (BPNW) is a regional affiliate of the Independent Book Publishers Association. About 20 attended the meeting in the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle. Rosemary Jones, author and longtime board member/ web editor for BPNW, organized the meeting as …

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