At the same time Bellingham’s Village Books says goodbye to an outstanding long-tenured bookseller, NW Book Lovers says goodbye to one of its original contributors. Lindsey McGuirk was the questioner behind many “Conversations” columns, introducing readers to newer voices such as Nicole Georges and David Vann and checking in with old favorites: Jess Walter, Chelsea Cain, Jonathan Evison, …
While some of us boast about an arduous 7-mile hike along a well-traveled trail, Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, have trekked more than 7,000 miles of Alaska’s wilderness. By foot and by packraft, they travel around Alaska, both for their love of adventuring, but also on behalf of their nonprofit, Ground Truth Trekking. The …
“I’m happy to report that my reading slump is officially over and I’ve resumed my usual gluttonous reading habits. I just finished Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir by Poe Ballantine and had my socks knocked off. I’m in good company, considering that Cheryl Strayed (of Wild & Tiny Beautiful Things) wrote the intro to …
Last Sunday, Village Books, family, and friends celebrated the marriage of Paul & Kelly, two Village Books booksellers. Thanks to an article in Shelf Awareness, a feature in Village Books’ electronic newsletter by Lindsey McGuirk, and a wonderful photo of the book-themed cake on facebook that went viral among the northwest indie bookselling community, people …
Mockingbird is Julie Trimingham’s debut novel. Rich with the sights, sounds, and smells of Cuba, the novel is told through the eyes of Mia, an unemployed actress tagging along with her lackluster boyfriend as he desperately works to finish his book. Her days are spent ambling through the neighborhoods with a mix of thrill and tedium. …
Monica Drake’s second novel, The Stud Book, is like “Friends” for the punk rock crowd, a stripped down, no-holds-barred story of 30-somethings in the various places that 30-somethings find themselves—with kids and terrified, desperately trying to have kids, or desperately against having kids. Her first book, Clown Girl, was optioned by Kristen Wiig. Monica lives …
“She’d been alive thirty-nine years and only remembered four days of it.” In Jennie Shortridge’s fifth novel, Love Water Memory, Lucie Walker wakes up knee-deep in the San Francisco Bay with no memory of how she got there. She returns home to Seattle with her fiancé, Grady, and tries to rebuild her life with him …
When zinester/illustrator Nicole J. Georges was twenty-three, a psychic told her that her father was alive, big news to her after believing he was dead for most of her life. Georges tried her best to move on, but she struggled with the revelation. In a sudden act of desperation, she reached out to the conservative radio talk show host Dr. Laura, …
NWBL contributor and Village Books’ staffer Lindsey McGuirk sent out this New Year’s greeting in Village Books’ newsletter yesterday and we thought we’d reprint it here, with good reading wishes to all of our readers. “I don’t know about you, but I completely buy into the idea of a new year being a fresh start. …
Things are looking pretty great for Cherie Priest. In 2010, Boneshaker, the first book in her Clockwork Century series, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel. Last year, the movie rights to Boneshaker were acquired by Hammer …
