Authors Over Easy Breakfast
Thursday, September 21 - 8:00 - 9:30 am
Washington/Clark Ballroom
(Tickets required)
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E. J. Koh / The Liberators / Tin House
The Liberators (Tin House Books/W.W. Norton) is the richly layered and deeply moving debut novel from Seattle writer E. J. Koh, a multi-generational story about two Korean families and the events, large and small, that shaped their paths. Koh explores what it means to be from a country literally divided in half, a country that has known war, occupation and dictatorship, and how choices made in the face of such trauma can have consequences carried down over generations. E. J. Koh is the author of the memoir The Magical Language of Others, which won both a PNBA Book Award and Washington State Book Award, and the prize-winning poetry collection A Lesser Love. Her work has appeared in many journals, including the Atlantic, Poetry and Slate. |
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Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe / Thunder Song / Counterpoint Press
PNBA Award winner Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe follows her acclaimed memoir Red Paint with Thunder Song (Counterpoint/PRH), a razor-sharp collection of essays on what it means to be a proudly queer, indigenous woman in America today. Unapologetically punk, these essays segue between the miraculous and the mundane, the spiritual and the physical, as they examine the role of art—in particular music—and community in helping a new generation of indigenous people claim the strength of their heritage while defining their own path in the contemporary world. Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe is a Coast Salish author from the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Indian tribes, and currently lives in Tacoma. Red Paint was selected as an NPR Best Book of the year. Thunder Song will be published in March 2024. |
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Seanan McGuire / Mislaid in Parts Half-Known / Macmillan/Tordotcom
Multi award-winning fantasy writer Seanan McGuire introduces us to a girl named Antsy in Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Tordotcom/Macmillan), a snappy and action-filled tale of portals and danger, escape and memories. Antsy’s talent for finding absolutely anything extends to finding the door out of Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children and back to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go, a journey across worlds that might change Antsy and her friends forever. Seanan McGuire is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex and Locus Award-winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. McGuire’s name appeared five times on the same Hugo ballot – twice! Mislaid in Part Half-Known will be published in January 2024. |
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Katee Robert / Midnight Ruin / Sourcebooks Casablanca
Katee Robert returns with Midnight Ruin (Sourcebooks Casablanca/Sourcebooks), the sixth book in her Dark Olympus series of modern retellings of Greek myths with a distinct spicy flavor. And Greek myths don’t get much hotter than the story of Orpheus braving the Underworld to gain back his one true love, Eurydice. Robert gives this ancient tale a contemporary twist, with plenty of sizzle and tension, as the lovers are further tested by the enemies of Olympus infiltrating the faltering barrier into the lower city. Katee Robert has sold over one million copies of her trademark spicy romances. She lives in Spokane with her husband, children, a cat who thinks he’s a dog, and two Great Danes who think they’re lap dogs. Midnight Ruin will be published in January 2024. |