Last week, booksellers, authors, illustrators, and publishing professionals from around the country gathered in Baltimore for the American Booksellers Association annual education conference, Winter Institute. Among the featured authors was WA’s own Deb Caletti, promoting her upcoming young adult book, Girl, Unframed. On her way home, Caletti experienced a particularly uplifting experience. She posted about …
Award-winning author Jason Reynolds, who is serving his second term as the 2018 Indies First spokesperson, the American Booksellers Association and American Express, and Reynolds’ publisher, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, are working together to make available 20,000 special edition copies of Reynolds’s Ghost to young readers in underserved communities this holiday season. Through the initiative, participating independent booksellers will …
Last year, I attended the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association’s annual tradeshow on behalf of Girl Friday. I moderated a panel on building book communities and sat on a second panel about reading and influencing. Last year was my first time at the conference and I was amazed by the sense of community. Here were folks …
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.”
