Local favorite Cherie Priest is back this week with The Drowning House, a suitably gothic ghost story about a house that washes ashore, the woman who knows its secrets, and the pair of childhood pals who must put aside old rivalries to figure out the mystery of the house that has come back from the …
This week, 600 booksellers gathered in Denver for the 11th annual Winter Institute, a 3-day educational conference for people who own or work in independent bookstores, hosted by the American Booksellers Association (ABA). The ABA started a new tradition on the opening night: a backlist book swap. “Backlist” titlesare books that have been around (the opposite of …
Things are looking pretty great for Cherie Priest. In 2010, Boneshaker, the first book in her Clockwork Century series, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel. Last year, the movie rights to Boneshaker were acquired by Hammer …
Washington author Cherie Priest is winner of the 2011 Endeavour Award for her novel Dreadnought, published by Tor Books. The thirteenth annual award is accompanied by an honorarium of $1,000.00 and an engraved glass plaque. The Award was announced Friday evening at Oregon's major science fiction convention, OryCon. Steve Perry announced the Award and accepted it cialis order …
