Publishers Weekly has named Vroman’s in Pasadena, Southern California’s oldest and biggest bookstore, as Bookseller of the Year. Read more and add your comment at the Vroman’s blog.
In other bookstore news: Cody’s has a new home in downtown Berkeley … The San Francisco State University Bookstore now partners with Eco-Libris and invites customers to plant a tree for every book they buy … Skylight Books in LA’s Los Feliz area is growing. “I’m happy to tell you that we are going to be expanding our store to include a storefront next door!” says Skylight general manager Kerry Slattery. “It will be at least a few months before all is ready, but we plan to move our art, film, music, theatre and a few other sections to the new space, which will allow us to also expand a few sections like Fiction and the Children’s section.”
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Andrew Sean Greer, a San Francisco novelist whose latest book, 
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