Cherie Priest

Priest is a Florida native, born in Tampa in 1975.{{cite news|work=Locus|title=Cherie Priest: Pornography & War|date=September 13, 2010|editor=Trombi, Liza Groen}} She graduated from Forest Lake Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school in Apopka, Florida in 1993. She moved around quite a bit as a child of an Army father, living in many places such as Florida, Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee. She moved around regularly until college. In 1998 she graduated with a B.A. from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee, and in 2001 she left the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with an M.A. in Rhetoric/Professional writing.

Priest lived in Chattanooga for twelve years and it is there she both set her Eden Moore series and wrote the first two books.{{cite news| title=Bringing Out the Undead: Cherie Priest's Eden Moore Novels Are Perfect Complements to an October Night| first=Adrienne| last=Martini| work=Boston's City Paper| date=October 17, 2007| access-date=February 23, 2012| url=http://www2.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=14663}} In May 2012, she and her husband Aric Annear moved back to Tennessee from Seattle, Washington. In 2017, she returned to live in Seattle.

Although Priest was baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church, she has no further contact with the church and claims no religious affiliation.{{cite news|title=2010 Spotlight Award: Cherie Priest|url=http://www.seattlemag.com/article/arts/spotlight-award-winners/2010-spotlight-award-cherie-priest|work=Seattle Magazine|access-date=February 23, 2012|first=Brangien|last=Davis|quote="Born in Florida, Priest grew up with a penchant for horror and fantasy stories—perhaps because her mother, a Seventh-day Adventist, promised that the Second Coming could happen any minute.|archive-date=May 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511065315/http://seattlemag.com/article/arts/spotlight-award-winners/2010-spotlight-award-cherie-priest|url-status=dead}}{{cite web| url = http://www.cheriepriest.com/2005/09/27/damn/| title = Damn.| last1 = Priest| first1 = Cherie| date = September 27, 2005| website = CheriePriest.com| location = United States| language = en| access-date = February 23, 2012| quote = Since those halcyon days of yore, I’ve more or less left the church and gone my own way …| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180912131041/https://www.cheriepriest.com/2005/09/27/damn/| archive-date = September 12, 2018| url-status = dead}}

In addition to her novels, Priest was a reviewer for the Bram Stoker Award-winning website Chiaroscuro and currently is a staff member of Subterranean Press. She is a regular attendee and panelist at DragonCon and several other genre conventions around the country such as Penguicon and Steamcon. She is also known for giving talks and writing articles about the hobby of urban exploration.{{cite news|title=The Urban Explorer's Guide to Gently Trespassing|url=http://www.googobits.com/articles/614-the-urban-explorers-guide-to-gently-trespassing.html|work=Googobits.com|access-date=August 11, 2012|first=Cherie|last=Priest|quote=Trespassing, or “Urban Exploration” as it is sometimes euphemistically called, has been a hip leisure activity for years. Now this hobby has burgeoned into quite the popular pastime – though as with any field, the influx of trend-surfing amateurs tends to cause problems for the old pros.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125062621/http://www.googobits.com/articles/614-the-urban-explorers-guide-to-gently-trespassing.html|archive-date=January 25, 2013}}

• In March 2006, she won the Lulu Blooker Prize for Fiction for Four and Twenty Blackbirds (Tor Books, 2005), becoming the first ever winner in that category.[http://lulublookerprize.typepad.com/lulu_blooker_blog/2006/04/and_the_winners.html Lulu Blooker Blog: And the Winners are] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061129121843/http://lulublookerprize.typepad.com/lulu_blooker_blog/2006/04/and_the_winners.html |date=November 29, 2006 }}
• Her 2006 short story "Wishbones" was part of the Aegri Somnia anthology by Apex Digest, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.horror.org/stokerwinnom.htm#2006|title=Past Bram Stoker Nominees & Winners|access-date=February 23, 2012|archive-date=April 29, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130429182004/http://www.horror.org/stokerwinnom.htm#2006|url-status=dead}}
• Her 2009 novel Boneshaker won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award{{cite web |title=Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2010 Book Awards |url=http://www.pnba.org/awards2010.htm |access-date=January 15, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111072345/http://www.pnba.org/awards2010.htm |archive-date=January 11, 2010 }}
• The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced that Boneshaker made the final ballot for the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novel.{{cite web |title=2009 Nebula Awards Final Ballot |date=19 February 2010 |url=http://www.sfwa.org/2010/02/2009-nebula-awards-final-ballot/ |access-date=February 19, 2010 |archive-date=21 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221215940/http://www.sfwa.org/2010/02/2009-nebula-awards-final-ballot/ |url-status=live }}
• Boneshaker was a 2010 Hugo Award nominee in the Best Novel category.{{cite web |publisher=AussieCon 4 |title=The 2010 Hugo and John W. Campbell Award Nominees |url=http://www.aussiecon4.org.au/index.php?page=66 |date=April 4, 2010 |access-date=April 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121025907/http://www.aussiecon4.org.au/index.php?page=66 |archive-date=January 21, 2012 |url-status=dead }}
• Boneshaker won the 2010 Locus Award in the Best Science Fiction Novel category.{{cite web |title=2010 Locus Awards Winners |url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/06/2010-locus-awards-winners/ |date=26 June 2010 |access-date=30 June 2010 |archive-date=16 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016204818/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/06/2010-locus-awards-winners/ |url-status=live }}

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• Grave Reservations, 2021, Atria Books. {{ISBN|9781982168902}}.{{cite book | url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grave-Reservations/Cherie-Priest/Booking-Agents-Series/9781982168902 | title=Grave Reservations: A Novel. Book #1 of Booking Agents Series| date=19 July 2022| isbn=9781982168902| last1=Priest| first1=Cherie| publisher=Simon and Schuster}}
• Flight Risk, 2022, Atria Books. {{ISBN|9781982168926}}.{{cite book | url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Flight-Risk/Cherie-Priest/Booking-Agents-Series/9781982168926 | title=Flight Risk: A Novel. Book #2 of Booking Agents Series| date=15 November 2022| isbn=9781982168926| last1=Priest| first1=Cherie| publisher=Simon and Schuster}}

• Maplecroft, 2014, Roc Books. {{ISBN|9780451466976}}.
• Chapelwood, 2015, Roc Books. {{ISBN|9780451466983}}.

• Four and Twenty Blackbirds,
• Original edition, 2003, Marietta Publishing. {{ISBN|978-1-892669-22-3}}.
• Re-released in a revised, much expanded, edition, 2005, Tor Books. {{ISBN|978-0-7653-1308-9}}.
• Issued in the United Kingdom, February 2012, Titan Books. {{ISBN|9780857687722}}
• Wings to the Kingdom, October 2006, Tor Books. {{ISBN|978-0-7653-1309-6}}.
• Issued in the United Kingdom, May 2012, Titan Books. {{ISBN|9780857687739}}
• Not Flesh Nor Feathers, 2007, Tor Books. {{ISBN|978-0-7653-1310-2}}.
• Publishers Weekly described this book as "a bit talky" but also as Cherie Priest's "most assured outing yet."{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7653-1310-2|title=Fiction Book Review: Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest, Author . Tor $14.95 (365p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1310-2|date=October 2007|access-date=19 May 2017|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924134008/http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7653-1310-2|url-status=live}}

• Boneshaker, October 2009, Tor Books. {{ISBN|978-0-7653-1841-1}}.
• Clementine, July 2010, Subterranean Press. {{ISBN|978-1-59606-308-2}}.
• Dreadnought, September 2010, Tor Books. {{ISBN|978-0-7653-2578-5}}.
• Ganymede, September 2011, Tor Books. {{ISBN|978-0-7653-2946-2}}.
• The Inexplicables, November 2012, Tor Books. {{ISBN|978-0-7653-2947-9}}.
• Fiddlehead, November 2013, Tor Books. {{ISBN|978-0-7653-3407-7}}{{cite web |publisher=Upcoming4.me |url=http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/cherie-priest-fiddlehead-cover-art-reveal |title=Cherie Priest - Fiddlehead cover art reveal! |date=18 February 2013 |access-date=18 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101602/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/cherie-priest-fiddlehead-cover-art-reveal |archive-date=4 March 2016 }}
• Jacaranda, January 2015, Subterranean Press.{{cite web | url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22667736-jacaranda | title=Jacaranda (The Clockwork Century, #6) | access-date=2018-12-12 | archive-date=2018-12-15 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215223855/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22667736-jacaranda | url-status=live }}

• Bloodshot, January 2011,{{cite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345520609 |title=Bloodshot by Cherie Priest |access-date=Dec 7, 2010 |archive-date=January 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110119151516/http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345520609 |url-status=live }} Bantam Spectra. {{ISBN|978-0-345-52060-9}}.
• Issued in the United Kingdom, July 2011, Titan Books. {{ISBN|9780857686459}}.
• Hellbent, September 6, 2011, Bantam Spectra. {{ISBN|978-0-345-52062-3}}.
• Issued in the United Kingdom, September 2011, Titan Books. {{ISBN|9780857686466}}.

The Cheshire Red Reports concern a vampire thief called Raylene Pendle. Although she prefers to work alone, she acquires a group of misfits who join her in her adventures. These are two young children, a blind vampire and an ex-Navy Seal/Drag Queen. Bloodshot also features the world of urban exploration. The Cheshire Red reports were originally only commissioned as a two book series. There is the possibility of a third book in this series provisionally entitled Sawbones if sufficient interest is expressed.{{cite web|url=http://www.cheriepriest.com/2011/10/26/this-many-things-make-a-post/|title=This many things make a post - The Haunt*The Haunt*|access-date=19 May 2017|archive-date=7 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207142935/http://www.cheriepriest.com/2011/10/26/this-many-things-make-a-post/|url-status=dead}}

• Dreadful Skin, March 2007, Subterranean Press. {{ISBN|978-1-59606-080-7}}.
• Fathom, December 2008, Tor Books. {{ISBN|978-0-7653-1840-4}}.
• Those Who Went Remain There Still, December 2008, Subterranean Press. {{ISBN|978-1-59606-179-8}}.
• I Am Princess X, May 2015, Arthur A. Levine Books. {{ISBN|978-0-545-62085-7}}.
• The Family Plot, September 2016, Tor Books. {{ISBN|9780765378248}}
• Brimstone, April 2017, Ace. {{ISBN|9781101990735}}.
• The Agony House, September 2018, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic. {{ISBN|978-0-545-93429-9}}.Kirkus Reviews, June 24, 2018, https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/cherie-priest/the-agony-house/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829212215/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/cherie-priest/the-agony-house/ |date=2018-08-29 }}
• The Toll, July 2019, Tor Books. {{ISBN|9780765378231}}

• 'The Heavy', a short story. Published in Apex Digest Issue #12, March 2008.
• 'The Target Audience', a short story. Published in Noctem Aeternus January, 2008.
• 'Following Piper', a short story. Published in Subterranean Digest issue #6.
• 'Little Wards', a short story. Published in [http://www.edgeofpropinquity.net/ The Edge of Propinquity]. June 2006
• 'The Immigrant', a short story, part of Mythic #2, October 2006 Mythic Delirium Books. {{ISBN|978-0-8095-5756-1}}
• 'Bad Sushi', a short story. Published in Apex Digest, Issue #10. Republished in "New Cthulhu", ed. Paula Guran, November 2011.
• 'Wishbones', a short story, part of Aegri Somnia. December 2006 Apex Digest. {{ISBN|978-0-9788676-2-1}} (paperback), {{ISBN|978-0-9788676-3-8}} (hardback)
• 'Tanglefoot', a short story, published online by Subterranean Press, 2009. First release of the Clockwork Century universe.{{cite web|url=http://theclockworkcentury.com/?page_id=18|title=theclockworkcentury.com » The Stories|website=theclockworkcentury.com|access-date=19 May 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2008/fiction-tanglefoot-a-story-of-the-clockwork-century-by-cherie-priest/|title=Tanglefoot - complete short story|access-date=February 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603151045/http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2008/fiction-tanglefoot-a-story-of-the-clockwork-century-by-cherie-priest/|archive-date=June 3, 2012|url-status=dead}}
• 'Hell's Bells,' Grant’s Pass, Morrigan Books 2009
• 'The Catastrophe Box', a short story Son of Retro Pulp Tales, Subterranean Press 2010
• 'Reluctance', a short story, part of "The Mammoth Book of Steampunk", first published in the UK by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2012

• '[http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58137 Steampunk Wardrobe Customizations for the Lazy, the Poor, or the Crafty],' Tor, October 2009
• '[http://www.bookbrowse.com/blogs/editor/index.cfm/2009/10/4/Steampunk-for-Beginners-by-Cherie-Priest Steampunk for Beginners],' BookBrowse, October 2009
• '[http://weirdtales.net/wordpress/2009/01/19/growing-up-poe-cherie-priest/ Growing up Poe],' Weird Tales, January 2009

• Dead Space 3 (2013){{cite web |last1=Slater |first1=Maggie |title=Interview with Cherie Priest |url=https://apex-magazine.com/interviews-2/interview-with-cherie-priest/ |website=Apex Magazine |publisher=Apex Book Company |access-date=4 February 2023 |date=4 June 2013 |archive-date=4 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204114112/https://apex-magazine.com/interviews-2/interview-with-cherie-priest/ |url-status=live }}

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• [http://www.cheriepriest.com/ Cherie Priest's Official Site]
• [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0765313081 Editorial Reviews on Amazon.com]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051225140933/http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=lm2cnbhBtc&isbn=0765313081&itm=1 Reviews at Barnes & Noble]
• [http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/priest_interview/ Interview at] Clarkesworld Magazine (11/10)
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