Eugene’s Tsunami Books operates Tsunami Press, which rounds off 2023 with Bookstore Clerks and Significant Others featuring the work of 14 former and current Tsunami booksellers and others. Pre-orders are available now for the 2,000 book print run.

As Tsunami puts it so aptly on their website: “We want to sell them, get the rent paid, and get a seond printing going. This, for us, is the essence of Crowdfunding.”

The bookstore also supports the local writing, arts, and publishing community by offering author events, ongoing writers’ workshops, poetry slams, and other festivities, including “a wedding where both people changed their name to Whitman.” The store stocks more than 30,000 quality used and new books, cards and postcards, a great little collection of vinyl LPs, and a rotating selection of fine art and crafts from members of the local community.

As the holiday shopping season descends, look to this store/press and other members of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association for great ways to shop local and support indie writers and publishers.