If your local booksellers seem a little more tired than usual this week, it could be because they’ve been shoveling paths to the store during the snowpocalypse, dealing with power and internet outages, and/or they’re attending a virtual conference for booksellers all around the country, which starts very early in the day for west coasters. …
The summer after Steve finishes 6th grade three things happen: His baby brother is born, though he is sickly and must return to the hospital for numerous tests. Steve learns that he might never, walk, talk, or feed himself. If he survives. Angels visit Steve in a dream. Wasps start building a nest in the …
From laurenchronicles.com Ten tables, ten minutes at each table. Around these tables sit my favorite people: Book lovers. But not just book lovers. Professional book lovers. Bookstore owners and staff, librarians. The people whose lives are about connecting readers with writers. On Monday I was one of those writers. It was Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association’s (PNBA) fall …
From the Madison Books newsletter I hurried past Cal Anderson Park this week in time to join a crowd gathered in front of the light rail station there. It was a joyful throng, although it was a death that had brought us all together. We were present to honor the memory of Barbara Bailey, a …
[This segment of Watermark Book Company’s newsletter] introduce[s the store’s] team members so you can get to know us all a little better! This time, we would like to share a little bit about Jaycee! Tell us a bit about yourself: “I am a student at WWU majoring in dance and minoring in music. I …
I love to read, so I appreciate how one of my favorite things to do in my spare time seeps into my professional life, as well. Customers are usually happy when they’re in a bookstore. We’re a place where people come to find inspiration, or learn something, or just to relax. I love it when …
From Paulina Springs Books’ newsletter, Cyberpassages, March 2018 Ding! Your computer (or phone) chirps cheerfully, alerting you to a new email. Oh, look! It’s a new edition of Cyberpassages– and about time, too, because this time it’s a little more than fashionably late. You open it right away, anticipating a slew of fresh reviews, and …
From Island Books’ store newsletter: The past few weeks have been filled with grief for all of us at Island Books after the loss of Marni Gittinger. We not only lost a member of our book store family, we lost a dear friend. To say that Marni was a bright spot in many of our …
From the University of Idaho website. Keegan Lawler is a bookseller at BookPeople of Moscow in Moscow, ID. CLASS Creative Writing student creates resource guide to help others access queer literature There weren’t many literary resources for Keegan Lawler to turn to as a queer teen growing up in rural northern Idaho. Interested in the …
Dear Authors: I love you. I do. I hadn’t planned on writing this and was, in fact, in the middle of writing something else when I realized I needed to get this off my chest. I had been reading a book I was enjoying and realized that I was probably judging it more kindly because …
