Hit or Quit It – Cherie Priest’s Bloodshot
Hit Or Quit It is an anti-intellectual, often meandering, and completely useless examination of my feelings…of the first twenty pages of novels that luck upon the Protocult’s attention and answer the question of “hit” or “quit”. There is literally no literary value. Or any other kind. After missing out on Boneshaker and Dreadnaught, two books [...]
Jon Foster’s sketches for Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker cover
Big fan of Jon Foster, so when I saw Cherie Priest mention these, I asked Irene Gallo (the Tor art warlord) if we could redisplay them here. She proved strong but finally gave in when I pointed the BSC-Deathstar at Tor HQ (or she simply said yes–I ain’t tellin’).
Check them out after the jump…
News – Cherie Priest and The Paranormal Bender Tour
The lovely (a title granted to anybody who contributes to anything at BSC!) and talented Cherie Priest has revealed dates involving Mario Acevedo, Mark Henry, Caitlin Kittredge, and herself where they will read and sign books and stir up general mischief! The dates are as follows . . .
Synergy – Your Prescription for Reading?
Alright true believers and truth speakers! Today, BookSpotCentral is kicking off the first of a new monthly feature we are calling Synergy. Basically, one of our contributors offers a single question for our other contributors to give answer to. Beyond that, we go out and get talented outsiders who choose to become BSC extended [...]
Exclusive – Fathom by Cherie Priest (chapter excerpt)
BookSpot Central lands right on its feet after the holiday and presents more exclusive contest for our readers to sample! What I have today is a chapter from Fathom, the forthcoming novel from Cherie Priest. Previously, Ms. Priest has published three novels in her Eden Moore Trilogy all published by Tor Books. They are Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Wings To The Kingdom, Not Flesh Nor Feathers. Fathom seems to be a step in a different direction and Publishers Weekly weighed in with:
“A decidedly dark departure from Priest’s Eden Moore saga (Four and Twenty Blackbirds, etc.), this stand-alone novel is equal parts horror, contemporary fantasy and apocalyptic thriller. During a summer vacation to her aunt’s coastal Florida home, innocent teen Nia sees her cousin Bernice commit a brutal murder and then get dragged into the ocean by a monstrous water witch. Nia becomes inadvertently entangled in a conflict between primordial creatures that endangers the very existence of humankind. Entombed in stone for countless years, Nia eventually emerges from her cocoon transformed, only to realize that an old god is close to awakening and destroying the world. Priest’s haunting lyricism and graceful narrative are complemented by the solemn, cynical thematic undercurrents with a tangible gravity and depth. This is arguably her most ambitious—and accomplished—work to date.”
Cherie Priest was also nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for her story Wishbones in 2006.
I would like to thank Tor and Cherie Priest for allowing us to present the following sampler.
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Book Review – Dreadful Skin
Author: Cherie Priest Cover Artist: Mark Geyer Publisher: Subterranean Press Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: March 2007 Dreadful Skin by Cherie Priest isn’t a full-fledged book, but rather a collection of three separate novellas that suitably co-exist with one another. The first part, “The Wreck of the Mary Byrd,” originally serialized at Subterranean Press and available [...]
Contest – Cherie Priest Giveaway!
We are giving away Wings to the Kingdom and Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest to one lucky winner. PM FBSContest to enter. Contest ends December 24th . You can read reviews to both here and here. Read/Post Comments
Book Review – Wings to the Kingdom
Author: Cherie Priest Cover Artist: Nicole de las Heras Publisher: Tor Binding: Paperback Publication Date: October 2006 Gather round, kids. Paul is going to share a little bit about himself in this review of Cherie Priest’s Wings to the Kingdom. This better be good, you say? You better shut your mouth else I shut it [...]
Book Review – Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Author: Cherie Priest Cover Artist: Nicole de las Heras Publisher: Tor Binding: Paperback Publication Date: September 2005 In Cherie Priest’s debut, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Eden Moore is in search of answers pertaining to her family origins. Her quest will begin when she is just a young girl, seeing ghosts she refers to as the [...]
