Join us on Saturday June 13, 2026 from 10am-2pm at the Tulalip Resort and Casino.

The Board and Friends Forum brings together Sno-Isle Libraries Trustees, Friends of the Library, and the Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation Board of Directors for a day of connection, learning, and meaningful engagement with library leadership.

The afternoon session will feature strategic planning workshops by Sno-Isle staff and our consultants at Cityfi. Help us shape the future of library services in your community.

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Featuring Guest Speaker, Jamie Ford

We’ll be joined by keynote speaker, Jamie Ford, The New York Times best-selling author of PNW based novels Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Love and Other Consolation Prizes, and The Many Daughters of Afong May.

Books will be available for purchase onsite thanks to our partners at Edmonds Bookshop. Book signing and photos with the author will be available during the lunch break.

Jamie Ford is a Northwest author most widely known for his bestselling Seattle-based novels. His debut, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Langum Prize for Historical Fiction. Hotel was named the #1 Book Club pick in 2010 by the American Bookseller Association and is now read widely in schools all across the country. This multi-cultural tale was adapted by Book-It Repertory Theatre, and has recently been optioned for a stage musical, and also for film, with George Takei serving as Executive Producer.

An award-winning short-story writer, his work has been published in multiple anthologies, from Asian-themed steampunk set in Seattle in the Apocalypse Triptych, to stories exploring the universe of masked marvels and caped crusaders from an Asian American perspective in Secret Identities: The first Asian American Superhero Anthology, and Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology. His essays on race, identity, love, heroes, and complex families have been published nationwide and his work has been translated into 35 languages. He says he’s holding out for Klingon, because that’s when you know you’ve made it.

Jamie is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer, Min Chung, who emigrated from Hoiping, China to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the western name “Ford,” thus confusing countless generations.

Jamie's books will be available through the Edmonds Bookshop at the event and he will be offering signings during the lunch hour.

Sno-Isle Libraries serves over 800,000 residents of Snohomish and Island Counties through 23 libraries, online services, and a Library on Wheels. Our vision is that everyone in our community is connected to their library, and it is our mission to engage and inspire our communities through equitable access to knowledge and resources. In 2025, we checked out a total of nearly 11 million physical and digital materials and welcomed 160,422 attendees at library programs.