By Liz Button for Bookselling This Week on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 Author J.C. Geiger has embarked on a 4,300-mile, 10-day interactive road trip from his hometown of Eugene, Oregon, to New York City and BookExpo to promote the release of his debut young adult novel, Wildman (Disney-Hyperion, June 6). Along the way, he will be …
Some say New York City is a “melting pot.” I think not so much. Positively scads of vastly different folks exist in close proximity. But the vastly different doesn’t go away. That’s the secret! In this book a poor kid gets mixed up with a lot of rich ones. Uptown, Downtown, Eastside, Westside … she sees it …
I still haven’t caught up on emails from my time away at Book Expo America (BEA) in New York City last week, and it will probably be a several weeks before I get through all the magnificent books I picked up, but I thought I’d share some of my photos and experiences from my first day …
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, …
Booksellers love to talk about the Next Big Thing—especially if they can be the first to get there. Because booksellers are, at heart, discoverers, always on the lookout for something new (or old) to unveil to their colleagues and customers. Book Expo America is where they go to plunder new territory. Our colleague on the …
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 …
