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!
As I write this, we are two days away from the deadline for nominations for the PNBA Book Awards and five days out from our Committee meeting at the Fall Show to start the process of winnowing down the list. Well, winnowing it down further. We’ve already eliminated nearly seventy titles, which leaves us with …
“These stories reminded me of Lorrie Moore, whom I love, but if Lorrie Moore lived in a trailer in Olympia, Washington, with fewer puns but more loser boyfriends. Pretty funny, kind of sad, really good reading.” —Brian at Annie Bloom’s You can find Perillo’s stories and her PNBA Award-winning poetry at Annie Bloom’s in Portland …
To celebrate the official launch of Stevan Allred’s A Simplified Map of the Real World, Portland author Robin Cody posed a few questions (and made some insightful comments). Pull up a chair, maybe even pour yourself a beer, and enjoy these two as they chat about points of view, literature, nature, and where Stevan got …
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, the indie bookstore booster behind this blog, announced the winners of their annual book awards today. Congratulations are in order for Sherman Alexie (Seattle, WA) for Blasphemy; Jonathan Evison (Bainbridge Island, WA) for The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving; Eowyn Ivey (Palmer, AK) for The Snow Child; Lucia Perillo (Olympia, WA) for …
“A young adult novel for any bookshelf. The prose is crisp, refreshing and effortless, the characters fully realized and vivid, the dialogue believable and well chosen. Th generic viagra ere is a clean loveliness to this book, a light in it, despite its dark topic.”—PNBA Awards Committee. Putting Makeup on Dead People is on the shortlist for …
You don’t often get an inside look at the workings of an Award Committee, whether it’s for a national award, or something “less important,” like the Northwest booksellers’ awards. But for the last few years, we have indeed had one member of the Northwest booksellers group who has an established blog, and who has not …
Seattle author Rebecca Brown won a 1995 PNBA Book Award for her novel The Gifts of the Body, which also won a Lambda Literary Award. This year she has won the Judy Grahn Award for Best Lesbian Nonfiction from The Publishing Triangle, the Association of Lesbians and Gay Men in Publishing for her book American …
