From the Seattle Public Library’s Shelf Talk blog August 23, 2022. Title links go to SPL page; book cover links go to Bookshop.org. Your local independent bookstore is happy to help you find these books! Congratulations to 39 finalists in eight categories for the 2022 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) for outstanding books published by …
A tropical murder mystery perfect for mid-winter reading, this book is set on a sinister island in the Pacific, packed with Hawkins’ wonderfully gritty characters, and a murderer amongst them. I devoured this one. —Samantha Ladwig, Imprint Bookstore, Port Townsend, WA Saucy! Salty! Sexy! SCARY!!! I always love Rachel Hawkins’ narrative voice: funny, zesty, easy …
Kitsap County author, Tamara Kaye Sellman, who recently published her debut collection, Intention Tremor: A Hybrid Collection (January 2021, MoonPath Press), is giving back to the multiple sclerosis (MS) community with a $1000 donation to the Accelerated Cure Project (ACP), a nonprofit focused on accelerating MS research. The $1000 donation represents 100 percent of Sellman’s proceeds from …
In palm-sized notebooks, I collect phrases that won’t go away, lines that arrive in the tunneling moments before sleep or while washing dishes or as I’m descending the last hill home as dusk is arriving. Sometimes, these unbidden words act as a door into a story or chapter or even a promising scene. Other times, …
Key City Public Theater, together with Northwind Arts Center, will be giving a dramatic reading from The Night Child by PNW author Anna Quinn at the William James Bookstore in Port Townsend, in the new annex (829 Water St., Port Townsend, WA) at 7:00pm on Thursday, September 20, 2018. PT Shorts is a free monthly program open to …
People bring my husband gifts. He’s a mechanic who for decades has run a little garage in Port Townsend, and his customers love him. No, I mean they really love him, in the way mothers indulge sons and spinster ladies used to dote on their young pastors. They bake pies, drop off vegetables from their …
