Authors and librarians Mary Jo Heller and Aarene Storms share their new book, Sex in the Library: A Guide to Sexual Content in Teen Literature (Voya Press) on Tuesday, April 29. The event, which will be held at Secret Garden Bookshop in Ballard at 7:00 p.m., addresses the development of library collections dealing with sex... Continue Reading →
YA book launch: Between Two Worlds
Member Katherine Kirkpatrick will launch her YA novel BETWEEN TWO WORLDS (Wendy Lamb Books) at Third Place Books in Bothell on Saturday, April 26. Publisher's Weekly gave the book a starred review, calling it an "engrossing work of historical fiction." Show up that evening at 6:30 p.m. for snacks, book trivia, and prizes. She'll also... Continue Reading →
Two Speckled Eggs launch event
Local member and SCBWI Western Washington Illustration Coordinator Jennifer Mann will celebrate her authorial debut on Tuesday, April 22, at Seattle's Secret Garden Bookshop. She'll be launching Two Speckled Eggs, which she both wrote and illustrated, and which celebrates geek pride and unexpected friendships, among other things. The fun starts at 7:00 p.m. See you... Continue Reading →
#SCBWI-WWA14: Franny Billingsley breakout session
National Book Award nominee Franny Billingsley (2011's Chime) urges writers to put the characters (and therefore your readers) into as concrete a world as possible. Put your reader somewhere they want to be, she says. Into your book, which is akin to a pleasant dream-state. How to keep your readers there? Deploy concrete, sensory details.... Continue Reading →
Your chance to be weird with Kelly
Eastern Washington member (and former SCBWI WWA conference speaker) Kelly Milner Halls will be bringing her unique brand of weird science to Seattle in two events early next week. Monday evening, April 7, she'll appear at the Northeast Branch of the Seattle Public Library at 6:30 p.m., to discuss several of her quirky nonfiction books,... Continue Reading →
Ann Brashares’ pants
Author Ann Brashares' pants will be traveling to Seattle — with her in them — in April. She'll read from her new YA book, The Here and Now, on Wednesday, April 9. The free event will be held at McClure Middle School in Seattle at 7:00 p.m., and the public is invited, as this is... Continue Reading →
Tired of sulking in the rain?
Author Leslye Walton reads from her new book from Candlewick, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, on Friday, March 28, at 7:00 p.m. at the Secret Garden Bookshop in Ballard. Leslye is a PNW native whose book tells the magical realist story of a girl born with birds' wings. About the author the... Continue Reading →
Launch event for Beyond the Door
Celebrate the release of Maureen McQuerry's Beyond the Door (Abrams/Amulet) at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park this Saturday, March 22, at 6:30 p.m. The Mossyback Morris Men will be special guests, and there'll also be dancing, cupcakes, good times. The book is the first in her Time Out of Time series. VOYA says,... Continue Reading →
In the ha-ha-ha zone
Author and cartoonist Lincoln Peirce reads from his new book BIG NATE: IN THE ZONE at Seattle's Secret Garden Bookshop on Sunday, March 16, at 2:00 p.m. The illustrated novel, the sixth in the series by this New York Times bestselling author, was called "funny, big-time" by Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy... Continue Reading →
The whole pointe
Debut YA author Paddy Eger reads from 84 Ribbons, the coming-of-age story told through a teen's pursuit of a professional ballet career. Eger will appear at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, on Saturday, March 15 at 6:30pm.