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Jun

11

2024

Congratulations to PNW Foreword INDIES 2023 Winners!

Congratulations to Pacific Northwest writers and editors who were honored with Foreword INDIES 2023 awards. Thousands of books are entered each year, and over 100 librarians and booksellers take part in the judging process, narrowing down a group of finalists in 55 categories to Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners that truly represent the best in …

Oct

1

2021

Be Yourself and Sell More Books

Published on catapult.co September 13, 2021 As a part of our Money Week series, Laura Stanfill argues that you should work with your publisher to do what feels organic, genuine, and true to you as a human being. I’m running out of copies of Joanna Rose’s A Small Crowd of Strangers. My warehouse report says …

Dec

30

2020

Seattle-based author Don Mee Choi Wins National Book Award for Poetry

Congratulations to Seattle-based author Don Mee Choi for winning the National Book Award for Poetry for her book DMZ Colony, which was published by Seattle-based Wave Books. Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Colony is a tour de force of personal and political reckoning set over eight acts. Evincing the power …

Apr

28

2017

2017 Oregon Book Awards

Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Oregon Book Awards! The awards were announced on April 24, 2017 at the Armory in Portland. ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Kate Berube of  Portland Hannah and Sugar (Abrams Books for Young Readers) LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE Deborah Hopkinson of West Linn Courage & Defiance: …

Jun

9

2016

The EvoAngel

The EvoAngel by Ellen King Rice

I was told by a friend that I might like to read The EvoAngel by Ellen King Rice. When I saw the subject, I said “Oh, no! This does not look like my type of book.”  Boy was I wrong! Normally, when I see a self-published story, I worry about punctuation, spelling, grammar and writing skills. …

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