The Wordstock hot seat from the 2010 festival.

Only a few weeks away!

We love Wordstock here at Hawthorne Books. We have all sorts of events slated for this year’s festival and I’ve laid them all out for you here. Every year we have a booth at the Book Fair in the main hall and that’s where you’ll find publisher Rhonda Hughes, senior editor Adam O’Connor Rodriguez and myself for a large part of the weekend. Hawthorne Books authors will also be joining us at different times on Saturday and Sunday to chat with folks and sign books too so please come by and say “hello.” See you at Wordstock!

Wordstock readings and workshops with Hawthorne Books authors:

David Rocklin — 2pm Sunday reading with Anna Solomon; 4:30pm Sunday writing workshop the How and Where: On Setting as Character in Fiction.
Scott Nadelson — 1pm Saturday reading with Rahul Mehta; 3pm Saturday workshop In the Beginning: Crafting Compelling Story Openings.
Lidia Yuknavitch — 12pm Saturday panel My Censor Myself with Ben Moorad, Kerry Cohen and Lynn Connor; 11am Sunday panel What’s with America’s Sexual/Literary Hang-up with Steve Almond, Cheryl Strayed and Viva Las Vegas; 4pm Sunday reading with Lisa Wells.
Monica Drake — 1pm Sunday screening and talk about Georgie’s Big Break with Andy Mingo, Brian Lindstrom.
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Rhonda Hughes, Hawthorne Books publisher — 11am Saturday panel How to Win Over Agents and Editors.
Liz Crain, Hawthorne Books editor — 2pm Saturday panel Every Book is a Start Up.

Wordstock blog posts with Hawthorne Books authors:

Scott Nadelson’s guest blog post and Q&A.
David Rocklin’s guest blog post and Q&A.

Wordstock 2011
October 6-8 at the Oregon Convention Center
www.wordstockfestival.com

In celebration of Hawthorne Books' tenth anniversary ALL Hawthorne titles are only $10 from now until August 1st!

A lot of you received our summer newsletter last week. (If you didn’t and want to receive future newsletters sign up here.) Those of you who got the newsletter already know about this great promotion that we’re doing in celebration of Hawthorne Books’ tenth anniversary — all books are just $10 until August 1st.

We’ve been busy bees getting summer reads packages together for this $10 promotion for the past several days and we’d love to keep the momentum up so if there’s a backlist Hawthorne title that you’ve always wanted to read or a newer Hawthorne Book that’s been on your mind — now’s the time!

Not only are ALL of our books only $10 until August 1st we’re taking care of shipping costs too. So if you pony up $50 you’ll get five new Hawthorne Books reads — no postage! Get them while they’re $10 and help us celebrate ten years of supporting literary arts and important writers, ten years of a vibrant Portland small press, ten years of Hawthorne Books!

Thank you for supporting Hawthorne Books! We couldn’t do it without you!

Lidia Yuknavitch with KLCC's Laura McCandlish after a recent recorded interview about The Chronology of Water.

Thursday, 05 May 2011 :: 7.00 pm
Elliott Bay Book Company | 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122. T: (206) 624-6600 :: Lidia Yuknavitch reads from The Chronology of Water.

Monday, 09 May 2011 :: 7.00 pm
The Rumpus :: Lidia Yuknavitch and Cheryl Strayed to read from their work for The Rumpus Monthly Reading Series.

Thursday, 02 June 2011 :: 7.00 – 8.00 pm
Broadway Books | 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR 97232 T: 503-284-1726. :: Lidia Yuknavitch reads from her memoir, The Chronology of Water.

Thursday, 09 June 2011 :: 7.00 – 8.00 pm
Richard Hugo House | 1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122-2419 T: (206) 322-7030 :: Lidia Yuknavitch, Rebecca Brown and Stacey Levine read together. Not to be missed!

Tuesday, 21 June 2011 :: 7.00 – 8.00 pm
St. Helens Book Shop | 2149 Columbia Blvd, St Helens, Oregon – (503) 397-4917 :: Lidia Yuknavitch reads from her memoir, The Chronology of Water.

Wednesday, 21 September 2011 :: 7.30 – 8.30 pm
The Press Club | 2621 SE Clinton, Portland, OR 97202. T: (503) 233-5656. :: Mountain Writers Series at The Press Club. Scott Nadelson and Lidia Yuknavitch read from their work.

Update your address book.

We know we haven’t kept you in the loop as much as we would have liked to the last few months but there’s been a lot to keep up with. Most importantly, we moved our office from downtown Portland to Northeast Portland. As you know we’re in the business of books and, well, books aren’t that much fun to move. We did it though and we’re all set up in our new digs and ringing in the new year. So please forgive us for our online absence and send all future correspondence to…

Hawthorne Books
2201 NE 23rd Ave.
3rd Floor
Portland, OR 97212
Phone: 503.327.8849
Fax: 503.296.5817

Now's the time to lend a hand to Wordstock 2011, 2012 and beyond.

We’re so sorry that we’ve been negligent here with the blog. It’s been a busy summer and we had to focus on our authors, books and book tours. Now that it’s officially fall we’ll do our best to stick to the weekly blog schedule. Please remind us scold us if we don’t.

This year’s Wordstock was filled to the brim with fantastic workshops, readings, panels and more and between all of us here at Hawthorne we managed to play a part in just about every type of event Wordstock offered.

We really liked where we were in the book fair this year — sandwiched between the Attic and Tin House — great company. We also liked the fact that our authors did some great panels and readings.

Here’s a bit of what we saw and did last weekend at the 6th annual Wordstock. Cheers to everyone who volunteered for and helped organize this year’s Portland literary extravaganza aka Wordstock. You rock.

Kate and Adam at the booth looking lovely despite Convention Center fluorescence.

Rhonda on her Brave New World panel hosted by Richard Meeker with Lauren Kessler and Kevin Smokler.

Our lovely friend who stopped by and refused a tote for her magnificent stash of bought books.

The Wordstock hot seat.

See you at Wordstock next year!

Wordstock
www.wordstockfestival.com

There's always a long line for books after Frank's readings and events.

Frank Meeink’s fall book tour (his spring/summer tour was so popular we decided to extend it into the fall) launched mid-September and since then he’s been doing everything from speaking at the 2010 Michigan Response to Hate Conference in Lansing to hosting bookstore readings and college events.

From now until Thanksgiving, Frank will be traveling around the country telling his story. Here’s a bit of what he’ll be up to below. We’ll continue to update this schedule as events come in. If you’d like to schedule a book event or talk with Frank please contact Hawthorne Books.

FRANK MEEINK’S FALL TOUR — AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A RECOVERING SKINHEAD

September 29-30 — Indiana University East and Southeast, Bloomington, IN
October 4 — Atlantic Books, Dover, DE
October 5 — Wesley College, Dover, DE
October 6 — West Chester University, West Chester, PA
Oct 7 — Rittenhouse Square Barnes & Noble, Philadelphia, PA
Oct 11-12 — Philadelphia-area college lectures
Oct 14-19 — Philadelphia-area book events and speaking engagements with the Anti-Defamation League, local business leaders, law enforcement and youth service organizations such at the Arthur Ashe Tennis & Education Center
October 14 — Robin’s Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA
Oct 20th — University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Oct 22 — Lincoln Park Barnes & Noble, Dallas, TX
Oct 24 — Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, Dallas, TX
October 28 — Groton, CT
November 11-13 — Anti-Defamation League New York City
November 17 — Pace Academy, Atlanta, GA
November 19 — A Cappella Books, Atlanta, GA

LORETTA STINSON & LITTLE GREEN

Loretta Stinson has been doing all sorts of book events and interviews for Little Green since it came out on June 1st. The next big dates on the horizon are late August when she sets off for the Bay Area with readings at Green Apple Books on Wednesday, Aug. 25th and at Book Passage on Thursday, August 26th. We’re hammering out the details at the moment but we know that the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium will be participating in the Green Apple event and we’ve got some other things brewing in the area as well with various domestic violence organizations and crisis centers.

Check out this Literary Arts interview with Loretta here.

FRANK MEEINK ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL’S GANGLAND

Frank Meeink of Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead has been busy with all sorts of projects. In the middle of his 20-plus city book tour this spring/summer he took time to film this History Channel segment that airs Friday night….

COVER SET FOR LIDIA YUKNAVITCH’S CHRONOLOGY OF WATER

We’re so pleased with the drop dead gorgeous final cover for Lidia Yuknavitch’s upcoming spring 2011 Hawthorne Books title The Chronology of Water — designed by Adam McIsaac at Pinch. And just so you know, there will be a book belly band available for booksellers concerned with the nudity.

SCOTT NADELSON & PLOUGHSHARES

Scott Nadelson’s short story collection Aftermath will be published by us next summer but in the meantime Scott has been busy teaching at Willamette University and, of course, writing, writing and more writing. Ploughshares published Nadelson’s Dolph Shayes’s Broken Arm in its spring 2010 issue guest-edited by Elizabeth Strout and you can read the story in its entirety on their site.

Time to shake a leg and celebrate Little Green!

We’re all getting pretty excited over here counting down the days until the book launch party for Loretta Stinson’s Little Green. It’s fantastic to have a book launch party precede all sorts of great coverage from the likes of Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, The Rumpus, ForeWord Reviews and then some. When it comes down to it though we don’t need these publications to tell us what we already know. Little Green’s got it going on. Come celebrate with Loretta Stinson and the entire Hawthorne Books crew this Sunday night at Mississippi Pizza Pub!

Little Green Book Launch Party
No cover. All ages. Live music. Pizza and beer on us!
Sunday, July 18th 9:15-11:30pm
Mississippi Pizza Pub
3552 North Mississippi Ave.
Portland, OR
503.288.3231
www.mississippipizza.com

Live music from The Barkers
www.thebandthebarkers.com

On bookshelves nationwide!

Although publication dates are sometimes a bit slippery with books (you’ll often find titles on shelves a week to three weeks before pub. date) it’s still a momentous occasion for the writer and the publisher. Today Loretta Stinson’s Little Green is officially out in the world. We are very happy and so are a lot of you. We know because you’ve told us and so have the reviewers. Here are a few of the reviews rolling in…

Reading Local: Portland
Valet Reader
Brain Candy Book Reviews

A clip from the ForeWord Reviews piece:

Loretta Stinson successfully mixes drama with gritty reality in her first novel, in which she navigates the fraught waters of domestic violence and drug culture with a careful hand and compassionate heart…Her characters are dynamic and utterly real and while we may want to seal our eyes from the images she hands us it’s impossible not to watch, not to hurt for Janie…while her dreams slip further and further from her grasp.–Andie Diehn, ForeWord Reviews

This fine looking fellow, Frank Meeink, will be in PDX June 3-8 for readings and events.

A little more good news…

Since March 30th, Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead’s Frank Meeink has been on his 20-plus city book tour and this week he lands in Portland. From Ames, Iowa, to Chicago, Phoenix, New York City, Boston, LA, Las Vegas, and more Frank has been zigzagging across the country for book readings and events.

We’re looking forward to spending the better part of a week with him here and since we’re good at sharing we hope you’ll join us. Come one, come all!

Portland calendar:

June 5th, 9pm — Book launch party @ Mississippi Pizza Pub, live music by Nicole Berke, no cover and pizza and beer on us, 3552 N Mississippi Ave., Portland OR.
June 7th, 7:30pm — Reading @ Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, Portland OR.
June 8th, 7pm — Reading @ Barnes & Noble Clackamas Town Center Mall, 12000 SE 82nd Ave., Portland OR.

Recent coverage:

Huffington Post
Ring of Fire Radio
Utne Reader
Coast to Coast
Fresh Air
Chicago Tribune

You're going to be seeing a lot more of Loretta Stinson's name in upcoming weeks...

It’s been busy at Hawthorne Books this spring and that’s not going to stop this summer. Loretta Stinson’s debut novel Little Green, with an introduction by Robin Givens and accolades from Debra Gwartney, Cheryl Strayed, Gina Oschner and other renowned writers comes out in less than a month — June 1st pub. date — and we’re getting ready for her book tour and all sorts of book events.

For now, we have these local PDX events lined up:

Thursday, 29 July 2010 :: 7.00 pm
Elliott Bay Book Company | 1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122. (206) 624-6600 :: Loretta reads from Little Green.

Little Green review copies went out early March...

Followed by Little Green postcards earlier this week...

Little Green, a novel by Loretta Stinson
From Hawthorne Books
pub. date June 1, 2010
www.hawthornebooks.com