On Sunday, June 26 in Orlando Florida at the American Library Association annual conference and exhibition, Seattle author Laurie Ann Thompson and illustrator Sean Qualls were honored with the Schneider Family Book Award for their picture book, Emmanuel’s Dream. The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author and/or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic …
Last night, friends and family and fans of Martha Brockenbrough gathered at Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle for the presentation of her 2016 PNBA Book Award for The Game of Love and Death. How cool is that plaque going to look on her office wall? Congratulations, Martha!
Running an independent bookstore is a bit like getting up everyday and heading off to fight your own personal Goliath. Except unlike David I know that each time I will get my ass kicked. I know that every single day my faith in the power of literature will be tested. These things never change. Today, …
As a reader, I find recommendations difficult to ignore. Even when the pile beside my evening chair is in danger of toppling, something new, received at the insistence of a friend, simply must be cracked open. The same goes for gifts. While I have no trouble composting an unwanted fruitcake, or exchanging a shirt with …
Sometimes a unicorn shows up in your life and makes everything better. I wasn’t really expecting one. A few years ago, I had nearly realized an ambition I’ve had since age 12: I had scored a contract to develop a comic strip for newspaper syndication. I won that contract, in the Comic Strip Superstar contest, …
What did I think of when I learned that my peculiar collection of essays had won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award? Weirdly, not the barrels of cash and fine wines and excellent cheeses that would surely come my way, or the hordes of somber graduate students that would soon be studying my semicolons, or the …
From the Huffington Post 1/12/16: Lost in the Stories by Sara Lindberg I must confess — I LOVE books. I love how they smell when you open them up for the first time. I love how they feel in my hands. I love how heavy the bag is when I leave the store with my treasures. …
I left my hometown in Washington at seventeen, riding the Amtrak Cascades line south to Seattle and then the Empire Builder east. My father hugged me goodbye on the gray platform. It was, as always, raining. You know what they say, Meg, he said. You can never come home again. Those words confirmed the worst …
It’s been a good week for Seattle author, Laurie Ann Thompson! It kicked off with the announcement early Monday morning from the American Library Association that her debut picture book won the Schneider Family Book Award, given to books that “embody an artistic expression of the disability experience.” Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, …
The holidays are a little brighter for nine Pacific Northwest independent booksellers chosen as recipients of author James Patterson’s bookseller holiday bonuses. Congratulations to: Charnee Rose of Grass Roots Books & Music, Corvallis, OR Earl Dizon of Green Bean Books, Portland, OR Carol Easter and Kevin Sampsell of Powell’s Books, Portland, OR Joan Terselich of Village Books, …
