Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Makuta
We love when an author visits their books in our stores! Here’s a post by Zoe Hana Makuta from her visit to Charlie’s Queer Books in Seattle. (Also: Zoe’s The Coven Tendency just came out in paperback this week!)
King County Library’s Literary Lions 2026 Gala
The Literary Lions Gala is the KCLS Foundation’s signature celebration of libraries, literacy, and community. This year, the event returns to the Bellevue Library for a rare and special after-hours experience—an evening that brings together supporters, authors, and book lovers to uplift the programs that keep curiosity and connection thriving across King County. The 2026 …
WA Authors are Staff Picks at Riverstone Books in Pittsburgh, PA
Many booksellers from the Pacific Northwest are in Pittsburgh for the annual American Booksellers Association Winter Institute. Some participants got to tour independent bookstores. When we go to bookstores in different parts of the country and the world, we love to spot PNW authors and illustrators on the shelves. At Riverstone Books in the Squirrel …
Bestseller Spotlight: Be Our Book Valentine!
On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller List is published. Every week, we love to see what books have been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we look for something special to showcase. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. We can tell people have been shopping for loved …
PNW Authors receive 2026 Walter Dean Myers Honors
Congratulations to PNW authors Renée Watson and Idris Goodwin on their Walter Dean Meyers Honors from We Need Diverse Books! Announcing the 2026 Walter Dean Myers Awards and Honor Books The We Need Diverse Books Walter Awards Judging Committee has selected the Winners and Honorees for the eleventh annual Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding …
An Original Essay by 2026 PNBA Book Award Winner Leyna Krow
Before I was an author I was, briefly, a bookseller. The summer between finishing graduate school and getting my first teaching job, I worked a Spokane’s gorgeous downtown bookstore, Auntie’s. The story I want to tell is about something that happened on my first day. I had just been trained on how to answer the …
An Original Essay by 2026 PNBA
Book Award Winner Kelly Goto
I grew up in a house where creativity lived in the walls. Cartoons taped along cabinets, carved rocks on display, a small unicorn painting near the coffee cups, and a 4-foot plaster cast of illustrated ducks hung on our dining room wall. As a child, I didn’t realize how these surroundings shaped my memories. They …
Bestseller Spotlight: Double the “Carl!”
Because of the big news about the Pacific Northwest Book Awards last week, we missed our usual Thursday Themes analysis of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller List. But we still have something fun to share, even though it’s Monday: Dungeon Crawler Carl by WA author Matt Dinniman topped last week’s paperback fiction bestseller list …
Seattle Magazine features “108 Asian Cookies” author, Kat Lieu
From Seattle Magazine Dec 31, 2025 By Daniel Anderson Cookies From Home Seattle author Kat Lieu introduces a first-of-its-kind cookbook centered on Asian cookies. Kat Lieu has built a career out of baking, storytelling, and standing up for what she believes in. A former doctor of physical therapy turned bestselling cookbook author, she’s based in Seattle, …
