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2013 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Announced
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, the indie bookstore booster behind this blog, announced the winners of their annual book awards today. Congratulations are in order for Sherman Alexie (Seattle, WA) for Blasphemy; Jonathan Evison (Bainbridge Island, WA) for The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving; Eowyn Ivey (Palmer, AK) for The Snow Child; Lucia Perillo (Olympia, WA) for …
PNBA's 2013 Shortlist Announced
The Awards Committee for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has announced its shortlist for the best books of 2012 by Northwest authors. These 12 books and their authors are the nominees. The PNBA Awards Committee is made up of nine volunteer booksellers from throughout our region. This year they considered more than 200 titles published in …
Eowyn Ivey's Top 50 Books
(and a Giveaway!)
What is it about lists of books that are so enticing? Can you list your top 50 favorites? Hans Weyandt, of Micawber's Books in St. Paul, MN, challenged indie booksellers from all over the country to list theirs and posted them to the store's blog, Mr. Micawber Enters The Internets (read his inaugural list and …
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
I'm convinced this book is magical—it started snowing in the story, and the next time I looked out the window, big fluffy flakes
Ivey Down Under
Fellow Alaskans and Northwesterners, in particular, have responded enthusiastically to Eowyn Ivey and her magical debut novel about the Alaskan wilds, The Snow Child (#8 PNW Indie bestseller this week). But Australia? We interviewed Ivey on this blog in August, and Aussie blogger Novel Girl weighed in that she had an upcoming interview with Ivey …
Here Comes The Snow Child!
There's been lots of early buzz for bookseller Eowyn Ivey's debut, The Snow Child, which officially comes out Feb 1 (We've got word from some of our bookstores that they've already got it on the shelves). Ivey, who works at Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska and who we interviewed here about the double life of a …
28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List: Day 9. Eowyn Ivey
We're all excited that Eowyn Ivey's debut novel, The Snow Child, will be published Feb. 1 by Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown & Co. When Ivey's not writing books, she's selling them at Fireside Books (Palmer, Alaska), where she says she loves this time of year especially. "Much of my time is spent greeting old friends …
Good Books, Bad Coffee, Great Company: Eowyn Ivey's Wondrous Alaska
Eowyn (pronounced A-o-win; her Mom named her after a character in The Lord of the Rings) Ivey came to Fireside Books about seven years ago after working as a reporter with the local newspaper for nine years. She'd had the realization that her heart wasn't in journalism and that she wanted to work more closely with …