Seattle-area authors/publishing types, know about this?

[annathepiper]

Any of you have any experience with Northwest Bookfest, which I’m given to understand keeled over in 2003? I ask since technoshaman pointed me at this article, describing rumblings about resurrecting it in 2010, as well as an attempt to do an unrelated event in 2009 by a gentleman who is calling back to the whole Bookfest thing.

I notice a distinct lack of SF/F-oriented names in the article, but I don’t know if that was part of the original Bookfest. Can anybody fill me in?

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Comments

[karenjunker.livejournal.com]

I believe the original bookfest did not include much romance or SFF. One of the reasons I started Writer's Weekend...

Interestingly enough, when I tried to rent meeting space at UW for our events, they denied me, saying that our events would compete with existing programs they have.

Too bad the Columbia City event is the same weekend I'll be at Steamcon this year...

[annathepiper]

Ah okay, that makes sense. Not so surprised about the SF (which is sad given the geek town we live in), but I am a little stunned about the romance.

Not me!

[firni.livejournal.com]

btw, were you the one who pointed me at "Norse Code"? Or was that someone else?

Re: Not me!

[annathepiper]

Not me. Could have been anybody though, I keep hearing about that book.

Re: Not me!

[firni.livejournal.com]

Dang, I should have written it down. It's somebody on LJ, I'm pretty sure.

Re: Not me!

[annathepiper]

Why do you ask anyway? Did you pick it up? :)

Re: Not me!

[firni.livejournal.com]

Told the library to pick it up and it arrived the other day. Also picked up "The Life of Pi" and now I can't remember why I reserved it. duh

Re: Not me!

[annathepiper]

Ah okay!

I'll probably get it eventually, it does sound interesting. But I've been holding off buying books for a while since I'm low on shelf space and I'm not yet sure how often I want to let myself buy ebooks. Because I gotta ration that or else I'll go nuts. ;)

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

I went to the Northwest Bookfest two years in a row, and I'm sorry I didn't go more often. My recollection of it was that all different books and literature, as well as the art thereof, were represented. One year Sherman Alexie was the guest of honor. Another year it was Nick Bantock, of the Griffin & Sabine books, which are certainly fantasy in nature. They certainly had science fiction and fantasy authors in attendance. I recall going to one panel (they are kinda like cons that way - with booths set up where you can see different bookstores/vendors/authors and then spaces where they held panels on different topics) where they talked about having villains as the main protagonist and sci-fi books were talked about and some if not all of the authors on said panel were sci-fi/fantasy novelists. They covered pretty much any and all genres as I recall, and had lots of local writers in attendance.

Is that of any help?

[annathepiper]

That does help, babe, thanks! Mostly I was curious about what the overall event was like before. It'll be interesting if they resurrect it.