I'm here to ask you to join me in starting a trend. Let's change things and help independent bookstores. I have an idea that has been...

This past winter, I participated in a bookseller commitee for the Reading the West book awards. The Reading the West book awards is an...

I recently finished an advance reader's copy of Susan Lieu's memoir, The Manicurist's Daughter. Lieu's memoir was published today (...

As with many avid readers, I like to keep track of the books that I have read. Starting in middle school, I used a spiral notebook to log...

Who is setting book related goals for 2024? I always take time early in the new year to create my resolutions and they always include...

I love Little Free Libraries. This global project has a mission to increase access to books and promote a sense of community with the...

I've just returned home from my 10th wedding anniversary trip to Florida. We took a sunset cruise on a yacht, ate tons of crab fritters,...

This week has been rough. As many of you already know, the indie bookstore where I work, Tattered Cover, has announced that it has filed...

I've just returned from spending a blur of a morning speaking with book reps at Fallcon 2023. Fallcon is a regional booksellers...

We are currently celebrating Banned Books Week, which runs October 1-7th, 2023. Banned Books Week started in 1982, during a time when...

Last night I was scrolling through Facebook and I landed on a post by one of my favorite authors, Curtis Sittenfeld. Sittenfeld was...

As a bookseller at an indie bookstore, I consider myself knowledgable about the issues facing the book industry and literary issues in...

See this enormous stack of books? This was my haul from attending a bookseller's conference last year. I had multiple tote bags filled to...

I'm starting a new blog series called Indie Press Spotlight, to highlight my favorite small presses, and I'm starting with Tin House. I...

I just learned about an incredible book-related effort to raise money for those affected by the devastating fires that hit Maui. Books...

Old concert tickets, love letters, family photographs, grocery receipts...readers tuck these little items inside books for safe keeping...

Libro.fm is the indie bookstore alternative for audio books. A bookseller tells you why you should ditch audible and try libro.fm.