WW members Courtney Pierce and Leight Goodison will be among many authors at Jan’s Paperbacks in Aloha on May 16th. The ‘Shop Local, Read Local BOGO Sale’ will offer a free used book with every new local author book purchased. Jan’s Paperbacks has a long standing tradition of offering ample shelf space for new and…
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Alaina Smith Celebrates New Anthology May 11th at Powell’s Book Store
Alaina Smith is pleased to share that her story, “Finding My Family,” is part of the new anthology Blended: Writers on the Stepfamily Experience. The book, edited by Samantha Waltz, contains essays by many Portland-area writers and Willamette Writers members. You are invited to join Alaina, Samantha, and a dozen of Blended’s contributors at a…
Samantha Waltz on OPB’s Think Out Loud
Tune to “Think Out Loud,” Oregon Public Radio Friday May 8th about 12:30 to 12:40 to hear Allison Frost interview Samantha Waltz joined by Gigi Rosenberg and James Bernard Frost discussing Blended: Writers On The Stepfamily Experience.
WW Member Jason Gurley Signs Self Published Novel with HarperFiction
Congratulations to WW member Jason Gurley – HarperFiction signs his self published novel Eleanor in a six figure deal!
First guest of Eastern Oregon University Reading Series
Member Evan Morgan Williams, award-winning fiction writer, is the first guest of the Ars Poetica Reading Series at Eastern Oregon University. The reading will be held at 7:30pm Wednesday, April 22. Williams will share selections from his latest collection of short stories, “Thorn,” which won the 2014 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for short fiction. Williams’ stories…
Native Oregonian Janet Fisher sells historical novel
Congratulations to member Janet Fisher on the sale of her second book,The Shifting Winds, a historical novel of early Oregon, slated for release next April. Her agent Rita Rosenkranz closed the deal with Globe Pequot Press/TwoDot, publisher of Janet’s first book, a biographical history A Place of Her Own. The new novel portrays reluctant pioneer Jennie Haviland, a…
Buzz for Member H.W. “Buzz” Bernard
H. W. “Buzz” Bernard is one of the featured interviewees in this month’s edition of The Big Thrill, International Thriller Writers online magazine. “Bernard delivers a thriller that will tumble over you like an avalanche,” the magazine writes of Bernard’s latest novel, BLIZZARD. Bernard is a best-selling, award-winning novelist. His debut novel, Eyewall, which one reviewer called a “perfect summer read,”…
Jamie Zerndt’s The Cloud Seeders Wins Award
Jamie Zerndt’s book, The Cloud Seeders, just won the Cygnus Award for Speculative Fiction. https://www.facebook.com/chantireviews From Amazon: “Author James Zerndt has created an all too believable world that could well be ripped from the headlines just a couple of decades from now. Deftly crafting an engaging novel that will grip the readers attention from beginning…
Todd Yunker’s Shackleton’s Folly Available on Amazon
Alec Shackleton and his partner Dancer, a cobalt blue android centaur, penetrate a hot war zone, bust through a planetary defense system, and breaks into a museum. In celebration of their discovery they travel to their favorite watering hole. Alec is well known for his willingness to pay for information on the lost Eleven Wonders…
Dean Boom’s Fortress Angels Available
Dar is a wizard’s apprentice, a young man with a safe, obvious life before him. It’s a respectable position in the world of Holimoren, and it never occurs to him that it should be otherwise until he is ambushed, kidnapped, and impressed into an army so far from home he’s never heard of it. He…