From Tom Nissley, owner of Phinney Books and author of A Reader’s Book of Days: There’s a moment in the life of a writer, and the life of a book, that they don’t tell you about in school: when you get an email from your editor saying, “Sorry, but your book has been remaindered” (which …
By Michael Upchurch Special to The Seattle Times Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and I by Paula Becker University of Washington Press, 221 pp., $29.95 Seattle writer Betty MacDonald (1907-1958) was a beloved best-selling humorist who wrote about her life with a biting sense of the absurd. But if she’d …
Seattle author Garth Stein is launching his latest, Enzo’s Very Scary Halloween, at Secret Garden Bookshop in Ballard in Seattle. In keeping with the title, the shop presents Halloween in July, complete with costumes and trick-or-treats. Just think: You can pick a costume that doesn’t have to work under a rain coat! Something with wings? …
King’s Books in Tacoma welcomes four talented authors of Young Adult fiction to celebrate their latest books May 20 at 7:00 pm. Kristin Halbrook (Every Last Promise), A.R. Kahler (Shades of Darkness: Ravenborn #1), Mindi Scott (The Way Back to You), and Carly Ann West (The Murmurings) will talk about their work and the publishing process, and …
Twenty-eight organizations have signed on as the Advisory Board for Seattle City of Literature, which is planning a bid for the city to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. The organizations include the Seattle Public Library, Visit Seattle, Elliott Bay Book Company, Humanities Washington, Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, Third Place Books, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Sasquatch …
Japanese was my first language even though I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I grew up reading all the classics in Japanese including Hans Christian Anderson stories, Heidi, and The Secret Garden. It wasn’t until the third grade that I started to explore books written in English outside of the school curriculum, but …
Join the Seattle7Writers Saturday November 22 for a literary kick-off to the holidays like no other: the fifth annual Seattle7Writers Holiday BookFest! The line-up features 28 fantastic authors from the Pacific Northwest, including current NYT Bestseller Daniel James Brown, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan, 2014 Washington State Book Award Winners Suzanne Selfors, David Laskin, and …
On Thursday November 6, starting at 7:00 pm, Secret Garden Bookshop hosts author and illustrator Nina Laden to celebrate her 20 years in publishing and the release of her first game, the Peek-a Who? Matching Game based on her bestselling book Peek-a Who? Ballard resident and longtime “F.o.G.” (“Friend of the Garden”) Nina Laden is the New York Times bestselling …
Happy book birthday to Garth Stein’s A Sudden Light! A delightful crowd gathered Monday night in the historic Stimson-Green Mansion, inspiration for a prominent setting in the novel that Maria Semple (Where’d You Go, Bernadette) describes as “a grand, gorgeous, multi-generational epic of the Pacific Northwest.”
The Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) building, once a former naval training center, sits alongside South Lake Union in Seattle. The museum is filled with fascinating, engaging collections from all time periods to browse. I’ve taken my third graders on a field trip, I’ve passed through while on my bike commute home, and I’ve …
