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
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 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 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.
Tuesday poem #629 : Louise Akers : To a career hunter / @propellerbooks.bsky.social ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Louise Akers / @propellerbooks.bsky.social ;
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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 — 👍 125 🔁 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.
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.
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 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Was 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.