![]() The Firebird Song (Bloomsbury Children's) is her middle-grade fantasy about a kingdom in crisis, and the boy and the princess-in-hiding who set out to save it. Seattle author Arnée Flores, too, believes in the power of stories and books to give hope for the future. They tell each other stories to survive the "dark sickness," in an oral tradition evolved to describe origins and endings at the same time. Portland author Thea Prieto spoke about her debut novel, From the Caves (Red Hen Press), which follows four people banding together against environmental catastrophe in a PNW devastated by wildfires, drought, extreme heat and a toxic ocean. Themes of renewal after loss and preservation of invaluable history emerged swiftly. ![]() "We all know the best readers and writers and bookstores all live here in the Northwest," he said, eliciting several prideful whoops from the early morning crowd. Oregonian novelist Willy Vlautin ( The Night Always Comes) introduced 10 emerging Northwest writers at the Authors on the Map breakfast, a new-author spotlight feature of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association trade show for more than 20 years. ![]()
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