Merry Christmas, Booklovers!
Most independent bookstores are closed for Christmas Day, but you can browse our Face Out archives to make plans for your to be read pile. We hope you have a healthy and happy holiday!
Edmonds Bookshop’s UPS driver recommends “Solito”
Mary Kay’s “Drop Everything And Read” post was so inspiring, everyone is doing it 📖!! Here’s Joe, who delivers our books, dropping everything to read “Solito” & he even wrote a recommendation tag!! 😁 A valuable testament to our shared humanity and a great reminder to love relentlessly. You never know the wonders that one …
Annie Bloom’s Showcases Local Portland Authors
From Portland’s Annie Bloom’s Books: Books from Local Authors Want another way to shop local this holiday season? Pick up one (or more!) of these wonderful 2022 books from Portland authors. Lost Restaurants of Portland, Oregon (Paperback) by Theresa Griffin Kennedy A full menu of unforgettable events and historical milestones. Delve into the Rose City’s …
Take a virtual walk on the wild side with Catherine Raven, Country Bookshelf, and Books in Common NW
Wednesday, July 7th at 6pm the Country Bookshelf will be live with Catherine Raven and Tim Cahill to discuss Raven’s remarkable book Fox & I. This is an unforgettable story about the friendship between a solitary woman and a wild fox that all our booksellers are raving about. Register here! Ariana Paliobagis of the Country Bookshelf …
Portland’s Green Bean Books Suggests Black History Books for Every Month
“Just because February is coming to an end doesn’t mean you should stop reading and learning about Black History! We’ve got books to inspire, educate, and challenge.” –Green Bean Books, Portland, OR Children’s specialty bookstore Green Bean Books shared a list of children’s books about Black history for year ’round love in the February issue …
Celebrate Black History Month with
Paper Boat Booksellers
From Paper Boat Booksellers in Seattle, WA: February is Black History Month, and we are celebrating this year’s theme of Family: Representation, Identity & Diversity by featuring books from wonderful black authors that tell the histories and stories of African Americans in U.S. history. We encourage our customers to ask their bookseller for recommendations as …
Indie All-Stars: You’re Invited to a Virtual Event
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. …
Virtual Bookstore Visits on Social Media
Do you miss your bookstores? Be sure to follow them on social media. Many are posting videos and photos to give you a little bit of that happy bookstore feeling for when you’re mostly shopping online or over the phone with them. Here’s a quiet morning with birdsong outside Waucoma Bookstore in Hood River, OR: …
Ruminating on Romance with Christy Carlyle
Christy Carlyle is one of the amazing group of Romance writers who call the Pacific Northwest home. Her new series, The Duke’s Den, began publishing in November 2018 with book two coming in April 2019. She took some time away from working on book three to answer a few questions from nwbooklovers columnist and Third …
The Next Big Thing(s)
from Andrea Dunlop’s newsletter August 15, 2018 One of the biggest challenges of being a working novelist is balancing the deep, focused work of actually writing your books with the promoting of those books, the part that requires you to be in the world both online and off. Both are necessary and I generally enjoy …
