Our Day 15 author bookends her list in the smart, poetic, alluring way of her memoir, The Chronology of Water. The Chronology is on the shortlist for a Pacific Northwest Book Award from the indie booksellers of this region; a good number of other year-end lists and non-lists; and was recommended by authors on Day 7 and Day 12 …
“Genuine and generous, this memoir risks much and succeeds powerfully. A striking story is being told here, but the way it's told is even more striking. The book becomes experiential, fostering an intimacy generic zithromax between the writer and reader. You will be moved.”—PNBA Awards Committee. The Chronology of Water is on the shortlist for the …
Broadway Books is a timeless Portland gem. It's revered by longtime customers, new customers and fellow booksellers alike for staying vibrant and relevant during a tumultuous time in the book industry. The Book Broads, as the co-owners call themselves on Twitter, are making moves that incorporate the wisdom of their bookselling experience with new technologies …
We were intrigued when we found out that Indigo Editing Senior Editor (and NWBL contributor!) Kristin Thiel has a story in the new collection Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience. The anthology’s editors asked women to explore sexuality from a male point of view—to engage in “fictional cross-dressing” that, as the press materials for the …
As I travel around the region this year talking to people about my novel, Dove Creek, I’m often asked, “How did you persevere through 46 rejections?” Answering that question isn’t easy. And, actually, I don’t think it’s the right question. Why did I persevere through 46 rejections? And the answer to both is, I didn’t. …
Hanging out with Chuck Palahniuk can be fun—and potentially good for one’s career. Shelf Awareness has a chocolate Easter Bunny sweet piece on his efforts to introduce his writing group partner Lidia Yuknavitch‘s new memoir, The Chronology of Water, to indie booksellers throughout the country. The two Portland area authors packaged up boxes full of Easter …
Anyone who has read Chelsea Cain’s gory and intense thrillers about serial killer Gretchen Lowell could easily conclude that the author is a sordid woman who has an air of darkness. Anyone who has actually talked with her knows differently. Cain is lively, quick to smile, prone to self-deprecation and at the ready for a …
Last month Northwest Book Lovers published a piece about Lidia Yuknavitch‘s forthcoming memoir, The Chronology of Water, and everything that goes into getting a new book onto the shelf at your bookstore. In the story we alluded to a brewing cover controversy with the book. That story was cute. The one written[…]
A lot of things have to happen over a significant period of time before you can discover the latest gem at your local bookstore. The average book takes years to write and months to edit, then there’s the design, printing, cataloging, distribution and promotion–just to name a handful of things.
