Waucoma Bookstore will host local authors for a book signing to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 30 at the bookstore, located at 212 Oak St., Hood River. Local authors include:
• 10 a.m. to noon — Lynn Federle Orr, author of “Art Deco: 50 Works of Art You Should Know”
• Noon to 2 p.m. — Ruth Berkowitz and Lisa Kosglow, authors of “Kidding Around the Gorge”
• 2-4 p.m. — D.C. Jesse Burkhardt, author of “Columbia River Gorge Railroads”
Waucoma Bookstore will also offer exclusive day-of merchandise created especially for Independent Bookstore Day by major publishers and authors. Since its inception in 2014, more than 120 authors have demonstrated their support for independent bookstores by donating work for Bookstore Day in 420 independent bookstores across the country.
Independent Bookstore Day (IBD) is produced by writer and former bookseller Samantha Schoech in partnership with the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association. Pete Mulvihill, co-owner of Green Apple Books in San Francisco, spearheaded the launch of the event in 2014 after noting the success of Record Store Day.
“I love Bookstore Day because it is a large-scale communal event that joyously celebrates the literary ecosystem and shows how symbiotic the relationship is between readers, writers, and bookstores is, and how essential they all are in sustaining the contemporary written word,” noted Lauren Groff, 2016 Bookstore Day author ambassador. Groff is the author of “Fates and Furies,” “Arcadia,” “Delicate Edible Birds,” and “The Monsters of Templeton.”
