Likely Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will stop in Seattle to sign copies of her new book “Hard Choices,” but will not be talking about any of those choices.

Clinton will sign books at 5 p.m. on June 18th at the University Book Store. “Hillary Clinton will not be granting press interviews,” added an announcement from the store.

Backers of Clinton are already organizing in Washington: The group Ready for Hillary staged an event last week. The ex-Secretary of State has already been endorsed by President Obama’s two most prominent 2008 caucus supporters, ex-Gov. Christine Gregoire and U.S. Rep. Adam Smith.

Bill and Hillary Clinton started courting Washington with the 1991 meeting of the National Governors Association in Seattle. Bill Clinton carried Washington in 1992 and 1996, and visited the Pacific Northwest 13 times during his eight years in the White House.

But the then-First Lady ran into an angry crowd of right-wing talk radio listeners when her Health Care Caravan pulled into Westlake Park for a 1994 rally. The mob’s behavior was so boorish that conservative radio pundit John Carlson spent days trying to excuse and justify it.

Bill Clinton found a warmer reception in October of 2000, when the presidential motorcade climbed Union Street into Madrona so Clinton could attend a fundraiser for Hillary’s U.S. Senate campaign in New York at the home of Starbuck’s CEO Howard Schultz.

As a senator, Clinton made herself accessible to Northwest media, particularly to talk about climate change and its impact on the oceans, a subject on which she displayed a detailed knowledge.

The access ceased with the onset of her 2008 presidential campaign. Clinton did appear at a posh fundraiser at a northwest Seattle home. She returned for a waterfront rally on the eve of the February, 2008, caucuses, but was overwhelmed by Obama.

The most recent “Hillary sighting” in the Northwest was in March, when she talked to the Vancouver, B.C., Board of Trade for a reported honorarium in the $200,000 range. The Board of Trade is a longstanding cash cow for the Clintons. Bill Clinton spoke to the group in 2007 and 2010.

The Hillary appearance June 18th will be a “limited access book-signing event,” said the book store, with “tight security and a small venue.”

It contrasts with the May 29 appearance by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who just published her autobiography “A Fighting Chance.” Warm and open, Warren spoke to more than 1,000 people at Sen. Patty Murray’s annual Golden Tennis Shoes awards ceremony.