Seattle kids’ author Mark Holtzen interviewed Seattle kids’ author Kim Baker about her upcoming middle grade novel, The Water Bears. Where did the idea for The Water Bears come from? What was the original grain of sand that led to this pearl? (If you have better ideas for jokes or puns in questions, I’m all …
If you follow your favorite authors on facebook or twitter, you might have noticed a lot of buzz about the Indies First events happening throughout the region (even the world!) this Saturday, November 30. Seattle kids’ author Kim Baker (Pickle) posted on facebook: Are you shopping locally on Saturday? I’ll be a guest bookseller at Secret …
Yesterday on facebook, Seattle illustrator and author Jaime Temairik reminded folks that Kim Baker, Seattle author, won the 2013 Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI) Crystal Kite Award for the West for her middle-grade novel, Pickle. (There are 15 divisions forged out of the 70 SCBWI regions around the world. “West” encompasses the …
The bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon affected the Pacific Northwest bookloving community; authors, booksellers, and readers were there. Adrianne Haslet-Davis, a dance teacher in Boston, and her husband Adam Davis were victims of the second bomb. Adrianne lost her left foot and part of her leg. Adam was injured with shrapnel. Here in the …
