This is a link we’ve had in the files for quite some time now… Even though the titles aren’t quite so fresh, it’s still a fun tool. The Seattle Times created interactive book recommendations based on reviews from the paper. You know what’s even more fun, though? Visiting a local independent bookshop to ask a bookseller …
When I edited the collection City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales for Forest Avenue Press, I got to do something really fun: publish a writer who once published me. Kevin Sampsell (This is Between Us, and A Common Pornography) edited the anthology Portland Noir (Akashic) in 2009. It was a super cool collection—all noir …
The Christmas story features three kings; this year, King’s Books in Tacoma is releasing three holiday gift recommendation newsletters with ideas for any holiday gifting. As they put it, “We seek to bring you the most literate, quirky, smart, useful, and fun items possible for your gift-giving pleasure!’ Part One of their recommendations featured the categories …
No April Fool’s jokes on this blog! Just a nice video to treat yourself to during a break today. Sorry, I just realized that it’s the beginning of April, and I’m only now sharing this wonderful video from Rediscovered Books in Boise about the March pick recommending a book and music to complement it. Katt …
Robert Dugoni has done it again with My Sister’s Grave. The author has written a series of bestselling legal thrillers featuring Seattle-based trial attorney David Sloane. Dugoni himself is a civil law attorney. Murder One found both Dugoni and Sloane in new territory – criminal defense law. It was as good as, if not better, than most of …
Excerpted from the monthly Queen Anne & Magnolia News column by Joann Moreno. Every month in the local paper for Seattle neighborhoods served by Queen Anne Book Company and Magnolia’s Bookstore, Moreno recommends new books. For the full October column (including more books), click here. October is to publishing what October is to baseball: that …
Not long ago, I became frustrated with my inability to find fiction whose main character has a chronic illness or chronic condition. It seems there’s no lack of fiction about characters with terminal illnesses, but very little where the character has a chronic illness. Being afflicted with a chronic illness myself (chronic migraine) and being …
I just finished reading Dog Company by Patrick K. O’Donnell. A couple of years ago, on 11/11/11, my wife and visited the Beaches of Normandy and Pointe du Hoc. What an emotional event that was. Having visited the scenes described in this book, it became much more personal. I have no known family who might …
Oooh, I just love a good holiday gift guide! So after I helped put one together for Queen Anne Book Company, I surfed the websites of the independent bookstores of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and found MORE. Take a browse. You might even want to share your favorite lists because not everyone is lucky …
“What are you reading right now?” This is the time of year when I dread this question. Imagine my typical customer, a nice, middle-aged, middle-class, well-dressed woman who loves to read, standing in front of me, asking this question with an expectant, hopeful look on her face. She needs a new book, perhaps a read …
