Seattle booklovers had another occasion to celebrate over Thanksgiving/ Indies First weekend: an event with author and bookseller Nick DiMartino of University Book Store. The photos are from the University Book Store Booksellers Instagram. Out to celebrate our own Nick DiMartino’s retirement from the @ubookstoreseattle after more than FIFTY YEARS with the company, friends joined us …
From Carol Price, owner of BookPeople of Moscow in Moscow, ID: My three favorite teenage employees graduated from Moscow High School last weekend: Reed Spurling (my son), Sidney Williams, and Emma Seckington. They’ll all be going off to college in August: Reed to University of Arizona for aerospace engineering, Sidney to Georgia Tech for math, …
More big news from Roger and Nancy Page, longtime owners of Island Books of Mercer Island and newly-crowned Mercer Island Citizens of the Year: A couple of years ago on a Sunday in August a young mom and her toddler came into the kids’ section where Nancy and I were working. She looked vaguely familiar …
The online literary newsletter Shelf Awareness announced its top books for 2013: 10 each for fiction, nonfiction, and kids. Congratulations to Pacific Northwest author Daniel James Brown for the selection of his nonfiction account of the University of Washington crew team’s quest for the gold in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans …
Yesterday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association announced the shortlist for the PNBA 2014 Book Award. The judges for the award are booksellers. To be eligible for nomination, books had to published in the last year and written by an author living in the Pacific Northwest. Up to six of the books will be chosen as …
Seattle writer Laurie Frankel won the fifteenth Endeavour Award for her novel Goodbye For Now. The Award was announced Friday evening at Oregon’s major science fiction convention, OryCon. The Endeavour Award honors a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book, either a novel or a single-author collection, created by a writer living in the Pacific Northwest. …
I am a bookseller. I scour Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness, endless catalogs, Facebook, and Twitter for booksy news. I spend endless hours before and after work striving to be a better bookseller. In addition, belonging to bookseller’s trade organizations has put me in the company of people who love what they do, have learned things …
