On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller list is published. Every week, we love to see what has been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. Booksellers have all had the “its cover was [blue/red/yellow]” customer query, but these bestsellers …
I am going to start a publishing company and it is going to be called “Simultaneous,” and it is going to publish every book in a hardcover edition for libraries and collectors and another edition in paperback or board book or whatever its most natural fit is. So, all those nine bajillion-volume mystery series? A …
Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to fall in love with Edgar Allan Poe and his dark soul with all its demons? Lynn Cullen’s novel Mrs. Poe is probably as close as you will ever get. In this historical mystery you follow a young poet Frances Osgood as she meets her …
