At the end of July, Norton sales rep Dan Christiaens hosted Poetry Night at the Ballpark with the staff of Seattle’s Open Books, and, for some reason, me. Dan gave us all copies of Norton’s Baseball Haiku, too. The crew declaimed some memorized verse between innings, but mostly we just watched the game and had a …
On July 10, 2017, NPR aired “Octavia Butler: Writing Herself Into The Story” by Karen Grigsby Bates about Octavia Butler, beloved scifi author who lived in Seattle from 1999 until her death in 2006. Octavia Butler used to say she remembers exactly when she decided to become a science fiction writer. She was 9 years …
This week, 600 booksellers gathered in Denver for the 11th annual Winter Institute, a 3-day educational conference for people who own or work in independent bookstores, hosted by the American Booksellers Association (ABA). The ABA started a new tradition on the opening night: a backlist book swap. “Backlist” titlesare books that have been around (the opposite of …
