This is not a PNW-local organization, but The Word is a literary national nonprofit dedicated to promoting voices from underserved communities and diverse backgrounds. Applications for their Editor-Writer Mentorships are open through Monday March 17, 2025. Here are details from The Word: Are you a writer, author, editor, bookseller, or book enthusiast?! We are so …
A ghostwriter for a famous Patterson-type moves to Florida during the pandemic. She starts jotting down vignettes of her days, all the ordinary things, all the weird things, some of them typical Florida weird – big animals, big weather – and some most assuredly NOT typical weird – missing sisters, cults, ghosts, a belly button …
HE HADN’T PREPARED me for the house, for how wildly inappropriate a dwelling it was for a man who was in a wheel-chair. Stacked like a tea-tray of sandwiches on a sopping wet hill in Queen Anne, it climbed higgledy-piggledy into a thicket of conifers, and somewhere, up there, among the shaggy, dripping green, was …
Do you remember early this year when a transportation disaster delayed two highly-anticipated cookbooks? In January of 2022, the pandemic world and its supply chain disruption woes reached a point of absurdity when the print copies of Melissa Clark’s Dinner in One and Mason Hereford’s Turkey and the Wolf had been en route from the …
If your local booksellers seem a little more tired than usual this week, it could be because they’ve been shoveling paths to the store during the snowpocalypse, dealing with power and internet outages, and/or they’re attending a virtual conference for booksellers all around the country, which starts very early in the day for west coasters. …
From the Island Books blog June 26, 2020 So our doors are open. We can better serve the public. You can buy what is on our shelves directly, instead of through Instagram or our website. That is fantastic! But, your books are still taking weeks if not months to get here. We aren’t able to …
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 …
The nonprofit Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) in Portland needs some help so it can continue to serve authors, publishers, artists, and other creative folks. Rent at their current space is going up by 300% (!), so they need to find a new space. Even though they’re moving to save money, moving also takes money. …
“If you are interested in book publishing during its ‘golden age’ of the last half of the 20th century, before the takeovers by conglomerates with their relentless pursuit of the bottom line, before Amazon and the disruptions it has created, before e-books–then this is the book for you. “Hothouse chronicles the life of one of …
If you stopped into your favorite indie bookstore last week and didn’t see all the regular faces, it may have been because folks were in New York City for the annual BookExpo America, a.k.a. BEA. When you see them now, they may look verrrry tired because they’ve been up late every night reading advance readers …
