Propeller Books

A diamond painting of the cover of Survival Tips.

I’ve had some time on my hands this summer. @propellerbooks.bsky.social

13.08.2025 20:33 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Me in Photo Booth w friends including Leslie Barnard Booth 2x children’s book finalist.

Me in Photo Booth w kid & husband.

Me in Photo Booth w FICTION WINNER Kimberly King Parsons

Me in Photo Booth w dear friend and colleague and nonfiction finalist @courtneythorsson

Didn’t win but was a boss at Photo Booth. @propellerbooks.bsky.social @literaryarts.bsky.social

29.04.2025 05:01 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

A photo of me in my @propellerbooks T-shirt holding Survival Tips at Cottage Groove books.

Show me your #independentbookstoreday #indiebookstoreday pics!

Here’s me in my guest bookseller uniform at Cottage Groove Book.

27.04.2025 03:11 — 👍 51    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 0

Tuesday poem #629 : Louise Akers : To a career hunter Appraising as if only  for insurance purposes  some keening squirrel, my sight hound  guarantees the regular abandonment  ...

Tuesday poem #629 : Louise Akers : To a career hunter / @propellerbooks.bsky.social ;
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22.04.2025 13:16 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Louise Akers Louise Akers is a poet living in Brooklyn, NY. She is a PhD student in English at NYU and is the co-organizer of the small press and workin...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Louise Akers / @propellerbooks.bsky.social ;
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17.04.2025 13:10 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

A Department of Education Office Changed My Life. Now It's Been Cut Novelist Lydia Kiesling on lost jobs and possibilities

I wrote about Title VI, a Department of Ed program that changed my life & gave students across the country a chance to learn about the world. Some asshole lawmakers have always hated it. Thanks to DOGE, it's basically dead. Don't count on university admins to fill the void. time.com/7269589/depa...

20.03.2025 14:21 — 👍 126    🔁 47    💬 3    📌 6

A bright yellow cover of Survival Tips beside two copies with spines out on the shelf of The Propeller Store.

Baby’s first birthday! @propellerbooks.bsky.social

19.03.2025 17:24 — 👍 41    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Screenshot of the Survival Tips page of Library2go. 0 of 1 copy is available. Big green "Place a Hold" button next to black and white "Read a Sample" button.

Today's small good news: SURVIVAL TIPS (@propellerbooks.bsky.social) is a library ebook. I didn't know it was a library ebook!

Available on @libbyapp.bsky.social & Library 2 Go, at least in Oregon.

03.03.2025 01:33 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

“Criminals,” a novel in the spirit of John Okada Before a packed house on February 2 at mam’s bookstore in Seattle Chinatown, I was honored to help launch Criminals, the debut novel by Ben Masaoka of Seattle of a postwar Japanese American f…

A packed house in Seattle to launch "Criminals," Ben Masaoka's novel of a postwar Japanese American family published by @propellerbooks.bsky.social of Portland. Ben felt a connection with novelist John Okada, and we could hear it in our readings today of Ben's work. resisters.com/2025/02/02/c...

03.02.2025 07:29 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

book cover of Criminals

Our reading assignments are set. Come down this Sunday 2/2 at 2:00 pm to mam's books in Seattle Chinatown to learn about a Seattle author you've never heard of before and his novel from @propellerbooks.bsky.social and his admiration for the work of John Okada. There will be food! Catered by Sophon.

31.01.2025 19:23 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Oregon Book Awards 2025 Finalists banner with covers of 33 books, including Survival Tips.

"KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION Judges: Kevin Brockmeier, Lauren Grodstein, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Miriam Gershow of Eugene, Survival Tips: Stories (Propeller Books) Victor Lodato of Ashland, Honey (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers) Kimberly King Parsons of Portland, We Were the Universe (Knopf/Penguin Random House) Charlie J. Stephens of Port Orford, A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest (Torrey House Press) Willy Vlautin of Scappoose, The Horse (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers)"

So frigging thrilled about this news.

TY, @literaryarts.bsky.social!
TY, @propellerbooks.bsky.social & the brilliant Dan DeWeese.

28.01.2025 17:52 — 👍 28    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0

Congratulations, @miriamgershow.bsky.social! Survival Tips has been named an Oregon Book Award finalist for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction.

28.01.2025 17:59 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Was going to tell folks you “lobbied” us, but if you prefer “harangued,” happy to go with that.

27.01.2025 04:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Join us in one week at mam's books in Seattle Chinatown for WRITERS READ BEN MASAOKA’S posthumously-published debut novel, “CRIMINALS”
Sunday, February 2, 2025
2:00-4:00 pm PST
Mam’s Books
Free and open to the public.
Join Frank Abe, Lucy Tan, Carla Crujido, Bruce Rutledge, and Dan DeWeese.

26.01.2025 01:00 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0