Foreword Reviews interviewed PNW author, Alexandra Oliva in May Enjoy! Dontaná McPherson-Joseph Interviews Alexandra Oliva, Author of The Radiant Dark Science and fiction—you can almost sense the tension between those two words. Science is serious, it wants evidence and facts. Fiction is playful, it imagines and creates and does whatever the hell it wants. All of …
Foreword, which reviews independently published books, did a wonderful interview with Issaquah, WA’s own bestselling author, Newbery Award winner, 2021 PNBA Award winner, and beloved champion of children’s literature, Donna Barba Higuera. You can subscribe to the free Foreword This Week e-newsletter on their website. Below is an excerpt of the interview by reviewer Meg …
Foreword Reviews announced its 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards and the Gold Winner for Anthologies is Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Stories edited by Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, and Dennis Widmyer. Chuck Palahniuk is, of course, Chuck Palahniuk. Richard Thomas, despite the bio notes you may encounter declaring him to be John-Boy, is Editor-in-Chief …
At the American Library Association meeting in Chicago this week, ForeWord Reviews presented its Editor’s Choice Prize for Nonfiction to Greystone Books for Eating Dirt by B.C. author Charlotte Gill. The 15th annual Book of the Year Awards celebrate independently published titles. We Northwest Booklovers have been great fans of the book, so we’re particularly …
Susan Blackwell Ramsey is not a Northwest author. She’s a Michigander. But she heavily praises Brian Doyle and Marilynne Robinson in this interview with Foreword Reviews, so we’re going to adopt her for the moment. She’s also smart, funny and charming, dropping a great Neil Gaiman advice quote for writers, an invitation to the interviewer …
