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Feb

16

2021

Indie All-Stars: You’re Invited to a Virtual Event

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. …

Apr

23

2020

The Nest written by Kenneth Oppel, illustrated by Jon Klassen

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 …

Oct

22

2019

Author Lauren Kessler: All Hail the Indies

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 …

Aug

20

2019

Seattle Honors Barbara Bailey, Bookseller
and Activist, by Renaming Street

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 …

Apr

8

2019

Jaycee of Watermark Book Company

Meet the Bookseller: Jaycee of Watermark Book Company

[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 …

Dec

4

2018

Carol Price of Book People of Moscow

Carol Price of BookPeople featured on Booksellers of America

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 …

Mar

30

2018

Bookstore Community: Looking Forward to Independent Bookstore Day with Paulina Springs Books

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 …

Feb

13

2018

In Loving Memory of Marni Gittinger of Island Books

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 …

Oct

17

2017

Keegan Lawler

Idaho Bookseller Creates LGBTQIA+ Literary Resource

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 …

Sep

26

2017

A Bookseller’s Honest Advice to Authors

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 …

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