The biggest selling book in the independent Northwest this past holiday season was The Oatmeal’s How To Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You. (“Kneading on you: You may think this is a sign of affection, but your cat is actually checking your internal organs for weakness.”) The Oatmeal is actually Matthew Inman, of Seattle, …
One of the premier giveaways at this year’s Book Expo America was the limited edition T-shirt for Jonathan Evison’s forthcoming novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. By some stroke of luck a small pile made it back to the Algonquin Books’ offices, where they were squirreled away in a closet, much to the delight of …
This week in NYC, thousands of booksellers, authors and publishing people have descended on the Javits Center to schmooze, mingle and talk books and bookselling (coffee, breath mint, coffee, breath mint, repeat). Our intrepid colleague Brian is on the floor there, and this morning he sent us this photo of NW indie wonder-couple Colin Meloy …
Nothing to do with hoops skills—this is the original WNBA, the Women’s National Book Association, and they have awarded Seattle’s Queen Anne Books a 2011 Pannell Award, recognizing “booksellers who stimulate, promote and encourage children’s and young people’s interest in books.” Queen Anne is the single nationwide recipient in the general bookstore category, praised by …
We learned today from Shelf Awareness, one of our favorite sources for information about the book industry, that Patti Pattee, owner and bookseller extraordinaire at Watermark Books in Anacortes, Washington, won the Award for Grossest Smoothie Ever! from Chronicle Books, the publisher of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series. Chronicle featured the contest at the …
