Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Makuta
We love when an author visits their books in our stores! Here’s a post by Zoe Hana Makuta from her visit to Charlie’s Queer Books in Seattle. (Also: Zoe’s The Coven Tendency just came out in paperback this week!)
Bookstore Merch and Other Bookish Gifts!
Check out this sassy trail hat (good for sports or reading with that mesh and brim) from Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, MT. There’s more bookish merchandise where that came from, too. For the holidays and year ’round, many bookstores offer apparel, stickers, mugs, or other gifts for booklovers. Queen Anne Book Company in …
A Letter from Sydney Langford, Author of “The Loudest Silence”
Dear Bookseller, I was 14 when I traumatically lost ~50% of my hearing. As I grappled with this loss, my Generalized Anxiety Disorder skyrocketed. For years after, my only solace was found in stories—I’d get lost in books, focusing on fiction in an act of desperate self-preservation. But the more I read, the less I …
Congratulations to Charlie’s Queer Books in Seattle: Featured in USA Today!
From USA Today June 21, 2024 Inside Charlie’s Queer Books, an unapologetically pink and joyful space in Seattle Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community, generate local jobs and sales tax revenue, promote literacy and education, champion and center diverse and new authors, connect readers to books in a personal …
Welcome to Two New Seattle Stores: Mam’s Books and Charlie’s Queer Books!
What an exciting autumn in the Pacific Northwest! Seattle welcomes two amazing new bookstores. Mam’s Books, owned by Sokah Danh, is the first independent Asian American bookstore in the Seattle. Since the store’s grand opening September 23, 2023, it has been filled with a steady stream of literary luminaries and community leaders like Karen Maeda …
