About Us

Northwest Book Lovers is a blog by and about authors, librarians and independent booksellers in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Anyone interested in the literary Northwest can participate.

Tell us what you’re reading here. Or contribute comments to Tour a Store, Face Out, NW Voices or the bloggiest part of this blog, Regional Reprints. Send us your ideas here.

Booksellers, we want to hear from you. Tell us what’s in your stack and what you’re most excited to read, and email us with those funny anecdotes about happenings and things overheard in your store. Send us book recommendations for Face Out, and tell us what’s selling—especially those titles that might be off our radar.

Northwest authors, we would love to hear from you, especially if you choose to become a PNBA member, which you can do here. Member authors will be listed on our author directory. We will also provide a link to your web site, if you provide a link to your favorite local independent store where people might buy your books, or to IndieBound. That link on your site must be at least as prominent as any links to other online booksellers. In addition, even if you are not a PNBA member, and especially for newer authors, or those of you whose first book has not yet been released, make sure that we receive a copy (or advanced readers’ copy, or ARC) as soon as it is available, and info about you, including where you live, and we will consider featuring you.

Publishers, publicists, and regional sales reps, send us your comments about NW books and authors, or titles that you think will have special relevance to Northwest readers. Send us copies of the books and point us in the direction of blurbs, reviews, articles, essays and blog posts. And we sincerely hope that you will encourage indie booksellers to send us their comments about your books.

NWBL is brought to you by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, a non-profit group that supports and promotes literacy, literature, free speech and independent bookselling in five Northwest states: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.

Only brick-and-mortar bookstores and libraries that are members of PNBA and that maintain regular, published business hours during which they are open to the public will be included in the Find a Store directory and featured in regular articles in NWBL. Occasional exceptions may be made.