Portland Book Blog – Roundup

So I’m nervous. If you haven’t read the previous post from Gabe on today’s featured Event, The 1000 Word reading series is happening tonight at The Maiden at 7pm and I am one of the readers. There are 3 other readers all of whom, I am pretty sure, are published writers, which leaves me totally outclassed and overwhelmingly nervous. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. I haven’t been doing much writing since my time with the Portland Fiction Project, and it’s nice to get a few pieces done (albeit short short pieces) and be able to share them at a reading. Anyway, I managed to pry myself away from my nervous worrying to pull a few links for this weeks round up.

Book Broads – Broadway Books
Decemberists’ Frontman to Pen Kids Series
-Bare Naked Ladies do a Children’s CD (which apparently is awesome–no surprise) and now Portland’s own Decemberists’ lead is doing a series of kids books. Which is way more exciting.

Boone Bridge Books
Pulizter Prize List
-Hey, Here’s the Pulitzer Prize List, if you know your the type that doesn’t want to go to the Pulitzer website. What? Why are you looking at me like that. Maybe I have something against their website. You don’t know.

Hawthorne Books Blog
A Production Story: How Hawthorne Books Got Its Double Scored Flaps
-A fun story by our dear Hawthorne friends about their fancy Book Flaps. You know you dig it.

Paper Fort
Congratulations to our New Poet Laureate
-Ms. Petersen can never get to many congratulations for her new role as Oregon’s Poet Laureate. Let’s say it together. Woohoo! Not what you were expecting was it?

Tin House
Love in the time of Amazon
-A love note to Independent Bookstores.

Mercury Book Blog
Un-Schooling at the IPRC
-I love what the IPRC is doing, especially in the digital age and how important I think knowledge of publishing will become to your every day writer.

New This week -

Not sure if any of you know this, but May is National Short Story Month – so states Dan Wickett of Emerging Writers Network and DZANC books.  I fully support this and hope that eventually is officially recognized as such soon. Last year’s was great as Dan shared a new short story (often several) every day on EWN Blog. Anyway, I will do what I can to share some favorites this month and I hope that you will do the same.

Today’s piece is by Jeremy Benjamin of the Portland Fiction Project

Shannon and Tiffany