2025 Authors on the Map Breakfast
Monday, September 29 - 7:45 am – 9:00 am
Spokane Convention Center, Spokane WA, Ballroom 111A
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An event showcasing ten newer authors from the PNW region interested in connecting with and visiting your store.
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In The Trees Around You (Mountaineers Books), Portland arborist and environmental educator Casey Clapp helps us get to know the trees we see every day here in the Northwest. Focusing on over 300 species commonly found in Northwest urban and suburban settings, this helpful guide shows how to identify trees by shape, bark, bloom, leaves and seeds, using a unique step-by-step process to unlock clues to the proper identification. An enthusiastic champion for trees, Clapp has worked as a professional arborist, city forester, and arborist consultant throughout the Pacific Northwest, and is the co-host of the science comedy podcast Completely Arbortrary.
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With lively and humorous text and colorful graphics, T.S. Hullabaloo (Andrews McMeel), co-authored by Seattle writer Victor Fusté, tells the story of what happens when a mysterious cat-like creature called a Hullabaloo attaches itself to a sixth grader named Jack. As if navigating middle school isn't hard enough, Jack now has to learn how to live with his new companion, a "friend" who seems to cause chaos in its wake. Victor Fusté is a graphic novel author, storyboard artist, and narrative designer for video games. He’s worked on projects for Sony, DreamWorks Animation, and Insight Editions, and is the author of the graphic novel
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A mother/daughter relationship fraught with plenty of baggage makes for a funny, sometimes heartbreaking tale in Scavengers (Viking), Oregon writer Kathleen Boland's debut novel. Daughter Bea has always been the cautious and steady one; mother Christy is ever the free spirit with a history of wild larks. When Bea's steady job suddenly ends, she makes the somewhat uncharacteristic decision to leave New York and visit her mother in Utah, where Christy is convinced that she is on the trail of a $1 million treasure hidden somewhere in the Utah desert. But finding the way back to each other may just prove more valuable than any cache of gold. Scavengers will be published in January, 2026.
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Changing up your morning meal is easy with Willi Galloway's new cookbook Veggies for Breakfast (Sasquatch Books). More than 100 quick, easy, delicious and vegetarian-ish recipes will entice anyone aiming to eat more veggies, more often, while offering plenty of make-ahead tips and easy adaptations. Willi Galloway is an award-winning radio commentator, writer and former editor at Organic Gardening magazine. She has hosted the garden-to-table online cooking show GROW.COOK.EAT., and long been an advocate for healthy, sustainable foods. Her own garden has been featured in Sunset magazine, and she currently lives, gardens, and cooks in Portland, Oregon.
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NYT and USA Today bestselling-author Megan Lally returns with What We Did to Survive (Sourcebooks Fire), a propulsive new thriller for young adults. A spring break vacation in Mexico promises sun, fun and romance for Hannah, her best friend Emmy, Emmy's handsome brother, and a wealthy stranger they meet on the beach. But things turn deadly when a chartered sailing trip runs in to a dangerous storm - and the darkening skies are not the only threat. Lally is the author of two previous young adult novels, including her debut novel, That's Not My Name, which was a NYT bestseller and an Indies Introduce Pick. What We Did to Survive will be published in March, 2026.
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Pullman writer Annie Lampman's new novel, The Origin of Ava (Torrey House Press), is a gritty tale of survival, freedom and healing. In it we meet Ava Waters, rising star in the world of ornithology, respected professor, comfortably in love - until tragedy upends everything in her life. She abandons all she has ever known and retreats to her uncle’s birding casa in Ecuador, where her journey to healing intertwines with a young girl running for her life. Annie Lampman is also the author of the award-winning novel Sins of the Bees and the poetry chapbook Burning Time. The Origin of Ava will be published in March, 2026.
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Gigi Little's Who Killed One the Gun (Forest Avenue Press) is a cozy noir mystery packing a wicked time loop. Private eye One the Gun and his right-hand dame Two the True Blue are hot on the trail of a killer, but with one little hitch - One the Gun realizes that today is just like yesterday (again) and he's pretty sure that by the end of yesterday he had been shot to death. Bodies and clues are piling up as the gumshoes race against the clock to catch the killer before One the Gun is dead for good. Gigi Little, a freelance book designer, is also the author of
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Combining magic, romance, mystery and dark academia, Molly O'Sullivan's debut novel The Book of Autumn (Kensington) is the perfect read for fans of Adrienne Young and Leigh Bardugo. Written in the form of an academic paper, complete with footnotes, notebook and diary clippings, religious annotations, and quotes from ancient philosophy and metaphysics, The Book of Autumn features Marcella Gibbons, trained anthropologist, one half of a now-estranged pair of powerful Magicians. When death strikes her alma mater, Marcella will have to learn to work with Max, her other half, to confront an ancient evil. Molly O’Sullivan is a cybersecurity engineer turned speculative fiction writer who currently lives in the Seattle area.
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In The Sea Gives Up the Dead (Red Hen Press), the highly anticipated debut story collection from Seattle writer Molly Olguín, historical fiction, horror, and fantasy tangle together in a queer garden of love, grief, and longing. A lovesick nanny slays a dragon. The devil tries to save her mother. A girl drowns and becomes a saint. A grieving mother sails the sea to find her son’s grave, a scientist brings a voice to life, and a mermaid falls into the power of a witch. Olguín's stories are “...gripping from the opening sentences to the last lines.”--Kirkus Reviews. Already named as an Indie Next selection, The Sea Gives Up the Dead will be published in April, 2026.
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Debut author Shen Tao introduces readers to the lush, deadly world of The Poet Empress (Bramble/Tor), a sweeping, epic and intimate fantasy full of magic, beauty, brutality and determination. In the declining, famine-ravished Azalea Dynasty, where poetry magic is forbidden to women, a peasant girl is unexpectedly chosen as concubine to the sadistic and invulnerable Prince Terren. For her own survival and the nation's, she must navigate dangerous court politics and learn to read in secret, so that she can kill him using a poem—a love poem. An engineer with roots in Nanking and Toronto, Shen Tao now lives in Seattle. The Poet Empress will be published in January, 2026.
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