The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association fall trade show in Spokane, Wash., opened officially yesterday and, among other events, featured the opening of the show floor, where a range of booksellers, authors, and publishers happily mixed:
(l.-r.) Allyson Howard of Invitation Bookshop (Gig Harbor, Wash.), author Caskey Russell (The Door on the Sea, Simon & Schuster), and Nathaniel Hattrick and Lacy Anders of Saltwater Bookshop (Kingston, Wash.).
(l.-r.) William Ham from Time Enough Books (Ilwaco, Wash.), Simon & Schuster sales rep Christine Foye, Simon & Schuster account manager Alex Yokom, Lucy Thomas of Books & Bottles (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Emily Foster from Page & Pine Bookshop (Puyallup, Wash.), and Michelle Jing Chan, author of Weiwei’s Winter Solstice (Bloomsbury Children's).
(l.-r.) Marissa Coughlin from Swoon City (Seattle, Wash.), Abilene Hagee of Trail's End Bookstore (Winthrop, Wash.), Kelly Groller from Paragraphs and Pages (Liberty Lake, Wash.), with BrocheAroe Fabian, senior marketing manager at Sourcebooks.
Karen Sawyer-Meehan, owner of Pier Six Press (right), with Kate Larson and Miracle Lucketti of Ballast Book Company in Bremerton, Wash.
(l.-r.) Annie Lampman, author of The Origin of Ava (Torrey House Press), Will Neville-Rehbehn, co-executive director of Torrey House Press, Scout Invie, marketing & publicity manager of Torrey House Press, and James Workman, co-author of Sea Change (Torrey House Press).