On Monday, April 1, booksellers from around the region gathered in Portland with authors and publishers following a booksellers’ education session from the American Booksellers Association. The Authors on the Map book signing and a happy hour hosted by Forest Avenue Press, Counterpoint Press, and Tin House Books were an opportunity for booksellers to meet …
Here’s a book about growing fruit in your backyard. This book contains instructions for caring for more than seventy-five different cultivars. All of which can be grown right here in the Pacific Northwest. Just think, you can start planting this week, and all your friends in the midwest will be sooper jealous that you …
I’m fussy about fantasy. I need more than a D&D transcript and those epic series of epicness (looking at you, Jordan, Martin, Eddings etc) are work. But sometimes the freshest thing you can do to a genre doesn’t involve razing everything to the ground, but tweaking one aspect and taking that change very seriously. Enter …
On August 18, the Hugo Awards were handed out. This is a big deal mostly in the Science Fiction and Fantasy community, but, this year it should be a big deal to everyone who values inclusive writing, especially the voices of women and more particularly women of color. For years, Science Fiction and Fantasy were …
Vellitt Boe is no stranger to the Call To Adventure. Vellitt Boe might be scared, but she’ll venture forth without hesitation regardless. After all, Vellitt Boe has a world to save, and gods be damned, she’s going to do it. Kij Johnson’s newest novella, heavily influenced by H. P. Lovecraft (The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath …
Stiefvater uses her signature style of captivating characters and complex plot in this novel about a Colorado family that can perform unusual miracles. Switching from dark scenes in fantastical forests to a love song to the desert, Stiefvater celebrates the miracles that sit within us all. Like the owls that line its pages, this novel …
As in her previous book, Uprooted, Naomi Novik combines folklore and fairy tale and creates something relevant and new. The story centers on Miryem, a young girl from a poor village who has taken over her father’s money lending trade. He has allowed his family to become practically destitute while most of the well-fed villagers …
For those of us who love Harry Potter (and there are a LOT of us), the magic never truly ends. We re-read the books. We watch the movies for maybe the hundredth time (and I might not be exaggerating). We find camaraderie and instant connections with fellow Potterheads who also believe in love, magic, and forever friendship. …
Outlander is a timeless tale about Claire Randall — a 1946 WWII nurse who travels back in time through a circle of stones in the Highlands of Scotland. The year is now 1743: English soldiers hunt Highlanders and Claire lands in the hands of Clan Mackenzie, and is forced to marry the young Jamie Fraser for …
Published in Shelf Awareness March 14, 2018 Matt Young is a Marine Corps veteran, teacher and writer. His work can be found in Incoming: Veteran Writers on Coming Home,Consequence magazine, Split Lip, Word Riot, Tin House, River Teeth and many others. He teaches composition, literature and creative writing at Centralia College in Washington State. He is …
