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MEMBER NEWS:
PNWA member Nathan Everett announces the release of his latest book, The Gutenberg Rubric. The book was a 2010 PNWA award-winner and will be released on July 28, with a big party at Jitters Coffee (15010 NE 20th St. Redmond, WA 98052) on Friday night, July 29, from 5:30-8:00pm. The party will feature a presentation on Gutenberg's contribution, a reading from the book, and a printing demonstration with a letterpress furnished by the Seattle Center for Book Arts.
PNWA member Linda Kuhlmann announces the release of her new novel, The Red Boots. Linda will be hosting a book launch party for The Red Boots at Third Street Books (334 NE Third Street, McMinnville, OR 97128) on Thursday, July 14, at 6:30pm.
A finalist in last year's PNWA Literary Contest, PNWA member James E. Lalonde's novel Holotar: Last Queen of the White Shamans is now available on Kindle, Nook and most other e-readers. "It's an e-book, but I feel like the 'Paperback Writer' in the Beatles' song," says James, who spent three years on this, his debut novel, including a year working with the homeless and mentally ill in Seattle shelters. It's the tale of a Seattle street kid nicknamed "Pinball," who has a gift for games - and for "Googling minds," a talent his teen shelter shrink dismisses as mere schizophrenia. When Pinball is lured into testing a new monster-filled holographic video game, the quest turns real. It's is an urban fantasy novel with a "twist of horror," about the consequences of creating and unleashing real and imagined video game monsters. James received the William T. Costello Poetry Award while at Gonzaga University, and he is a finalist in the 2011 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest for Poetry.
PNWA member John Trudel's first novel, God's House, is being published to excellent early reviews. It will be out in paper and eBook formats in September. John calls it "A new type of thriller," and several well-published novelists agree. For early information, check www.johntrudel.com. God's House will be up on Amazon.com in September, so, if you like it, please post a review. John's second novel, Privacy Wars, will be out in 2012.
PNWA Member Kathleen O'Brien announces the release of her novel A Light in the Heart by Plicata Press. When an auto accident in a Boston suburb leaves 33-year-old model Christine McMurray's face, hands and torso disfigured and one leg with multiple fractures, she must rethink her identity. Christine struggles with a controlling father who pushed her into beauty pageants from early childhood, a soon to be former fiancé and her reluctance to believe a photographer with whom she once had a fling still finds her attractive. This complex novel of loss, betrayal and ultimately rebirth is set in Montana and on Cape Cod. Bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard said of A Light in the Heart: " ...(It) bursts with humanity, exploring the pitfalls of the pursuit of personal perfection, while reminding every reader that a rich life comprises luck, both kinds. Perhaps most poignantly, it is a story that reminds us that the places of our human lives are not scenery and that the uphill roads lead home."
Available at Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/3wmmpac,Barnes and Noble: http://tinyurl.com/45xub93, independent bookstores and www.kathleenmobrien.com
In time for summer beach reading, PNWA member Jane Ross Potter's eco-thriller Sharkbait draws on old science for a new take on climate change. Jaws meets global warming? An inconvenient tooth! Protagonist Sharon is a famous marine biologist who studies temperature-sensitive mutations in fish. Johann is an eccentric shark expert in Hawaii whose chance for a normal life was ruined by a near-fatal shark attack, which he blames on Sharon. Follow these two mismatched scientists as they work together and risk their lives to learn why sharks are venturing on shore for food. Warming seas, toxins in the ocean, or something more sinister? www.janerosspotter.com
PNWA member Jane Isenberg encourages you to check out her new blog, http://notestomymuses.wordpress.com, where to celebrate her 70th birthday she is posting thank-you notes to seventy different authors who have inspired her to write.
PNWA member Jan Walker announces the formation of Plicata Press, LLC, a publishing cooperative in Gig Harbor, Washington. We work with local writers to bring out books of merit that might be overlooked by major publishers. We have five titles published to date, including Jan's latest book, A Farm in the South Pacific Sea, adult fiction based on a Seattle businesswoman's adventures in the Kingdom of Tonga in the late 1960s. On her arrival in the kingdom, June Sandusky is told, "There must be some mistake. You are a woman." June, Jan's cousin now deceased, was a woman before her time who set out to make a difference in the world and found love in the process.
For more information about Plicata Press, visit www.plicatapress.com
PNWA member Anne Leigh Parrish announces that three of her short stories have been published in Spotlight, an annual anthology of poetry and short fiction released in June by Press 53, a North Carolina publisher. The stories comprise a sneak peek of Parrish's debut story collection, All The Roads That Lead From Home, which will be published by Press 53 in October. Parrish's stories have been published in some of America's top literary journals, including American Short Fiction, The Pinch and Storyglossia. Order Spotlight online and read more about Parrish at her work at anneleighparrish.com.
Simone, a new novel by PNWA member Stephen Dennis, was released April 19th. A novel about fathers, daughters, love and war, it takes the reader from Seattle to the battlefields of World War II Europe with a mix of history and romance. www.sjdennis.com
PNWA Member Erika Mitchell is excited to announce the publication of her first fiction book, Pwned.
Pwned tells the story of Sean Boxer, a professional gamer whose rival sets him up as the target of a government investigation in order to keep him out of the biggest tournament of the year. Sean must choose between letting his rival win the tournament or fleeing the country in a desperate attempt to clear his name.
Available in e-book format from all major e-book retailers, Pwned is a fast-paced, entertaining look into the harrowing world of professional gaming. Please visit www.Erika-Mitchell.com for more details!
PNWA Member Bernadette Pajer announces the launch of her debut historical novel, A Spark of Death: The First Professor Bradshaw Mystery on July 5 by Poisoned Pen Press. This series features Benjamin Bradshaw, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington at the beginning of the twentieth century. A Spark of Death introduces Professor Bradshaw to an entirely new career--electrical forensics. Using his talent for analyzing vital details and his keen sense of understanding human nature, he is catapulted into an unexpected and energizing new life. For reviews, excerpt, and complete list of author appearances, go to www.bernadettepajer.com
PNWA member Kathryn Braund announces the release of her newest book, Murder in the Senior Manor, a bold and whimsical page turner. Along with fingernail biting time, the story also transports you into a retirement home with realistic glimpses of some of the cosmetic and physical amenities seniors enjoy. She sold more than 60 copies at her first book signing. Kathryn, a Great Falls, MT resident, is author of seven dog books -- one of them a 'book of the year' (DWAA) -- and three novels. Her web address is www.kathrynbraund.net
PNWA member Chellis Jensen will be reading and selling her book, Mrs Annathena Gilly Gully From Puddle Rumple Tilly Willy, at the Garfield Bookstore near PLU in Parkland, WA. The date is July 20th, Wednesday, from 10:30-noon. The suggested audience is ages 6--9. She enjoys talking with the children about name changing and how bullying gets started, and encourages children to see that writing and reading can be fun.
Chellis now has books in the Pierce County Public Library system, North Central Washington Public Library system, the Los Angeles County Public Library system, the Arcata, CA Public Library system, and the book is being catalogued into the Tacoma Public Library system, plus numerous elementary schools in Washington and Oregon.
PNWA member Elena Hartwell
interviews book doctor Jason Black on her blog, ArcofaWriter.com. Jason's interview will be posted July 1st and archived after August 1st. www.arcofawriter.com
PNWA member Anne Christensen is proud to announce that she has five "One Minute Book Reviews" up on Oprah's website for her book Motorbikes and Murder.
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