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Rene Kirkpatrick

May

13

2022

Kevin Emerson in Conversation with Rene’ Kirkpatrick about his new children’s mystery novel Drifters

Kevin Emerson’s newest middle grade novel, Drifters, is a mystery/sci-fi about a 13-year-old girl searching for her missing friend on the Washington coast. While a tale with multiple timelines and universes, Drifters is also a simple story about holding onto friendship. It is also a love letter to the PNW coast. RK: What was your …

Feb

6

2020

Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker

Ware is looking forward to spending the summer thinking and dreaming. His parents have other ideas and sign him up for a rec camp, something he absolutely dreads. On his first day at Rec, he slips out the back door into the dream of a broken church. Unfortunately, the space is already occupied by a …

Apr

11

2017

Portland Bookstore Bookseller Tours

Last week, booksellers from all around the country converged on Portland, OR for a conference on children’s books and bookselling, hosted by the American Booksellers Association. Some lucky participants registered for half-day and full-day bus tours of Portland area independent bookstores, hopping from neighborhood to neighborhood for 20-30 minute drop-ins (Woefully short!). Here are some …

Jan

6

2017

1

remark

Shelf Awareness: Reading with… Rene Kirkpatrick

René Kirkpatrick got her bookselling start at the University of Oregon Bookstore in 1978. At first she worked part-time while getting her degree in elementary education, and then she went full-time, becoming the children’s book buyer in 1985. In 1992, she and her husband moved to Seattle, where she worked with Chauni Haslet as manager and …

Mar

13

2015

1

remark

Celebrating “A Boat, A Whale, &
A Walrus”

Wednesday night a delighted crowd gathered at Book Larder in Seattle to celebrate Renee Erikson and the incredible team behind the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) Book Award-winning cookbook, A Boat, a Whale, & a Walrus. The bookstore’s Culinary Director, Kyle Wisner, served up delicious nibbles from the book including pâté and crostini. Lara Hamilton, …

Jan

28

2014

University Bookstore Wi9 welcome sign

NW (and National) Booksellers in Seattle for Education

Last week, hundreds of booksellers, authors, and publishers converged on Seattle for the American Booksellers Association’s ninth annual Winter Institute (Wi9), an industry celebration and education opportunity. Was your favorite local bookseller there? Enjoy some photos from the Elliott Bay Book Company-hosted opening ceremonies to get a taste of the spirit of the event.    

Jul

26

2013

Deb Caletti

Deb Caletti Steps Outside YA
with “He’s Gone”

A perfect start for your summer reading, He’s Gone is about love, loss, marriage, and the secrets we all keep. I’ve been a Deb Caletti fan for years, since that very first hot pink ARC of The Queen of Everything arrived at the store in the early ‘00s. It was the dawn of true young …

Jun

7

2013

René Kirkpatrick

BEA 2013: A Bookseller’s Perspective

Ah, BEA.  I could feel the gravitational pull of Javits from our hotel. For 3 whole days, Javits Convention Center in New York, New York, that angular, light-filled building, was packed with brilliant booksellers whose brains swim in letters and words, authors who make it all possible, and the wily publishers and publicists who bring …

Sep

27

2012

Kirkpatrick and Hunter Join
Eagle Harbor as Partners

Big news from Bainbridge Island yesterday! Eagle Harbor Book Company owner Morley Horder announced two new partners, current bookstore manager Tim Hunter and long-time NW bookseller (and NWBL contributor!) René Kirkpatrick. Horder says Hunter and Kirkpatrick will work as the managing partners, taking care of the day-to-day operations of the store and he’ll work on …

Aug

15

2012

3

remarks

Ivan Doig on Craft, Character
and Trout Fishing in the
Presbyterian After-Life

It was an overcast day in June when we met with Ivan Doig and his wife, Carol, at their home. We settled into the study where Doig writes, next to a wall of windows facing the Puget Sound and the islands. Sitting high above the pewter-colored water, we watched the Kingston ferry making its way …

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