Vroman's Bookstore

Happy to announce that The Fib has been named a finalist for the 2025 INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Picture Book category! I am so happy that this book has been connecting with children, teachers, parents, and librarians! Much love!
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Last weekend I got to see @tubbynugget.bsky.social perform at Vroman's Bookstore, & meet the creators Jenine Pastores & Josh Jackson.
This cutie is so wholesome, & their content is good for the soul. Had so much fun! ☺️

#Cute #Wholesome #MentalHealth #SelfCare #Fun

We stopped by Vroman’s today and they’re stocked up and ready for Thursday! Hope to see you there! 695 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, Thursday, March 5th at 7 PM #vromans #vromansbookstore #cootiewilliams #jazz

The indie publisher Tyrant Books is returning, under new ownership. Independent publishing great Tyrant Books—which has been dormant since its founder Giancarlo DiTrapano’s death in 2021—is coming back. As Publisher’s Marketplace reports, author and screenwri…

Tyrant Books is back.

The cover of "To Conquer Death" by Richard H Moon on the top shelf of the stacks at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, CA

My book is at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, CA.

MY BOOK IS ON THE SHELF AT VROMAN'S!

#booksky #scriptsky

There are three signed copies of Time’s Second Arrow at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social in Pasadena! Go grab them!

One week from today! Vroman's Bookstore, Thursday 5 March, 7 PM

Jon Lindstrom discusses & signs Hollywood Payback: A Thriller Event

📣Mark your calendar! Join author @jonlindstrom.bsky.social for a discussion and signing of 🎬HOLLYWOOD PAYBACK🎬 at Vroman's Bookstore (Pasadena, CA) on APRIL 10, 7PM.

https://loom.ly/V0Aj1w8

This Sunday at Vroman's--embark on an unforgettable journey with social media sensation Tubby Nugget! Meet the authors, Jenine Pastores & Josh Jackson, as they present and sign their new book: THE ADVENTURES OF TUBBY NUGGET: ESCAPE FROM NUGGETVILLE #1

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AUTHOR EVENTS THIS WEEK AT VROMAN'S
• Monday: Michelle Maryk's THE FOUND OBJECT SOCIETY
• Friday : Michiki Aoyama's HOT CHOCOLATE ON THURSDAY
• Saturday: Elizabeth Day's ONE OF US
• Sunday: Jenine Pastores & Josh Jackson's TUBBY NUGGET: Escape From Nuggetville

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If you're in LA, or have access to a plane or other type of vehicle, come out to Vroman's in Pasadena on April 30th, where I'll be talking with @blacktopkid.bsky.social for the launch of A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE. Come through.

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➕Don't Ever Become a Pessimist Pulitzer Prize-winner Eric Lichtblau on white supremacy, neo-Nazis, and America's new age of hate...revisiting my 2023 conversation with the great Yiyun Li...Brad & Mira assess pop culture...& more...

This week's newsletter:

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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes - Honorees and Awards Ceremony The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes celebrate the best books of the last year at our awards ceremony.

Im so honored to be nominated with writers ive long admired !!!!
Thank y'all for the love for KOA!!

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The big bounce: Matt Dinniman’s sci-fi satire scores with indies

There are 15 new entries in the Independent Bookshop Top 20 this week, including five of the 2026 cohort of World Book Day titles, according to the latest information supplied by NielsenIQ BookScan 👇 #BookSky

Rest in peace, Michael. Readers and writers have lost one of our greatest champions. There'll never be another quite like him.

A blue background with a small author photo with the book title ARMAVENI on top. It lists a mini bok your with dates to four different bookstore events in CA during March and April.

I’m excited to announce 4 bookstore events where I’ll be speaking about ARMAVENI! I’d love to see you there!

Book signing at Green Apple Books on Clement St.

Mrs. Dalloway’s Books in Berkeley.

Linden Tree Books in Los Altos.

Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena!

RSVP links in bio!

Three-time National Book Award finalist and the NYT bestselling author Lauren Groff presents her new collection of stories, BRAWLER, with Danzy Senna, on March 3rd! Get your tickets now!

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This Weekend at Vroman's...
• SAT at 11am: Lars Kenseth reads Call Me Moby"
• SAT at 4pm: Susan Walter discusses & signs "Murder at 30,000 Feet"
• SUN: Local Author Day
•• 11am: Susana Porras and Mary J. E. Nitti
••• 4pm: Agustin Medina

✨ THIS WEEK AT VROMANS ✨
• Monday: Michele Zack, "Altadena: Between Wilderness & City"
• Tuesday: Peter Alan Lesser, "Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop"
• Friday: Simona Supekar, "Stock Photo"
• Saturday: Lars Kenseth, "Call Me Moby" and Susan Walter, "Murder at 30,000 Feet"
• Sunday: Local Author Day

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY

“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) CUBA by Ada Ferrer is an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States. Now on sale for a limited time: https://bit.ly/4c8GbSN

It was an honor hosting you and Michelle. Thank you for bringing hope and awareness on behalf of our communities!

FIRESTORM book tour at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social Pasadena ✅ thank you to everyone who came out and asked questions and waited in line for the signing. loved being together with you all. max respect and gratitude to the great Gary Leonard for these photos. more tour stops soon.

Omid Scobie, Robin Benway, Dahlia de la Vega & a few dozen friends at Vroman's! Signed copies of Omid & Robin's new novel ROYAL SPIN available while supplies last!

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My Chicano Heart: New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions (New Oeste) My Chicano Heart is a collection of author Daniel A. Olivas’s favorite previously published tales about love, along with five new stories, that explore the complex, mysterious, and occasionally absurd machinations of people who simply want to be appreciated and treasured. Readers will encounter characters who scheme, search, and flail in settings that are sometimes fantastical and other times mundane: a man who literally gives his heart to his wife who keeps it beating safely in a wooden box; a woman who takes a long-planned trip through New Mexico but, mysteriously, without the company of her true love; a lonely man who gains a remarkably compatible roommate who may or may not be real—just to name a few of the memorable and often haunting characters who fill these pages. Olivas’s richly realized stories are frequently infused with his trademark humor, and readers will delight in—and commiserate with—his lovestruck characters. Each story is drawn from Olivas’s nearly twenty-five years of experience writing fiction deeply steeped in Chicano and Mexican culture. Some of the stories are fanciful and full of magic, while others are more realistic, and still others border on noir. All touch upon that most ephemeral and confounding of human emotions: love in all its wondrous forms.

Happy #FridayReads, hermano! Since tomorrow is #ValentinesDay, here's a gift idea, my short-story collection, My Chicano Heart. It's available wherever you shop for books including Pasadena's venerable independent bookstore, Vroman's: vromansbookstore.com/book/9781647...

A special Valentine's visit from Omid Scobie & Robin Benway talk ROYAL SPIN-their much-anticipated novel about a young American woman working in Buckingham Palace—tangled in a royal mess she might not be able to spin her way out of... Signed copies available, while supplies last!

wanna hear some tubby tunes live and get a signed copy + free stickers with your graphic novel?
come meet Tubby Nugget at Vroman's on March 1st!! 2:00pm

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Fourteen beloved authors celebrate the life-changing bond with their canine companions in this heartwarming essay collection edited by New York Times bestselling author and lifelong dog lover Alice Hoffman.

The Best Dog In The World by Alice Hoffman: https://bit.ly/4b81UtL

The first session of Saved By a Story's free Altadena Wildfire Survivor Community Writing Group:
• Vroman's Bookstore
• February 20th

Find connection and community in this nonjudgmental and creative environment. All ages are welcome.

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …

Check out this week’s Independent Press Top 40 bestsellers for fiction.