Are you an SCBWI member at the PAL level* with a new book coming out? Hooray! Let the Chinook Update know, and we'll help you announce it. Guidelines: Please try to email launch or signing event information at least a week, and preferably two, before the event. We'll try to accommodate shorter lead times, but... Continue Reading →
The early bird gets the… cupcake?
Member Toni Yuly will celebrate the launch of her first picture book, Early Bird, at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 1. Yay! Join her at the Elliott Bay Book Company for cheeps, cheers, and cupcakes. (Please RSVP with the bookstore so she'll be sure to have a cupcake waiting for you!)
Cat lover? Check this out!
Famous member alert! Seattle's Showbox Theatre (at the Pike Place Market) will soon be hosting CatVidFest, which will feature member Wendy Wahman's book trailer for A Cat Like That. Wendy says, "My book trailer for A Cat Like That was selected from over 7,000 entries to be part of this 80-minute compilation of the best... Continue Reading →
Register! Right here. Right now.
Registration is officially open for the 2014 Write Here, Write Now, a unique literary intensive. Sponsored by the Seattle7 Writers, the day features mini-lessons and tips from Seattle7 Writers and friends; receive consultations; write for sustained blocks of time; listen to opening and closing remarks by Claire Dederer and Garth Stein; and much, much more.... Continue Reading →
Renata — fresh from Canada — to join Nina Dec. 3
Bestselling illustrator Renata Liwska (THE QUIET BOOK) will join local member & bestseller Nina Laden for the launch of their new book, ONCE UPON A MEMORY, at the Secret Garden Bookshop in Ballard at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 3. And guess what? If you were going to take guesses about a shiny Canadian illustrator... Continue Reading →
Once upon a Nina
Does a feather remember it once was a bird? Does a book remember it once was a word? Member Nina Laden will answer these questions and more when she reads from her new book, ONCE UPON A MEMORY, at the Secret Garden Bookshop in Ballard at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 3. Go get answers!
Signing 1, 2, 3
Member Beth Stanton has shared a couple of pics from the booksigning by members Joe and Wendy Wahman (left to right, in case there was the slightest doubt) at Bellevue's University Book Store on Saturday. They signed their wintery title, SNOWBOY 1, 2, 3. Yay for books, music, and enraptured young readers!
Hear Jack Gantos Nov. 7
The University of Washington's Spencer G. Shaw Endowed Lecture Series will feature Newbery Medalist Jack Gantos in a talk called "It's All Personal" on Thursday, Nov. 7, from 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. Gantos is the author of DEAD END IN NORVELT and the newly released FROM NORVELT TO NOWHERE, as well as a young adult... Continue Reading →
Helen Landalf and the Ballard Writers Collective
Come one, come all to the fourth annual The Writer Next Door event, presented by the Ballard Writers Collective. This event will feature author readings, an Ask-An-Author panel, book sales, a raffle, and much more fun. It's also a great way, with a $15 book sampler, to get a book or two (or three) at... Continue Reading →
Jennifer Mann talks turkey
Congratulations to illustrator Jennifer K. Mann, who will join author George Shannon to celebrate the launch of their new picture-book collaboration, Turkey Tot. The fun starts at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3, at Bainbridge Island's Eagle Harbor Books. T(r)ot on down there!