Erin Pringle shares the backstories at Whispering Stories

I'm happy to announce that I did an interview over at Whispering Stories, and it's now available to read. I talk about my newest book, Unexpected Weather Events, as well as my writing process.  

Would love for you to give it a read and/or share it with the most avid reader in your life. 

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Interview: https://www.whisperingstories.com/interview-with-author-erin-pringle/

Unexpected Weather Events on Fiction Bestsellers with Small Press Distribution (SPD)

Good news. My short story collection Unexpected Weather Events has made the top twenty list of bestselling fiction for September/October 2023 with Small Press Distribution. And as the book only became available in October, I'll take that as a good sign.

View full list here.

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Unexpected Weather Events is available online and in brick-and-mortar. Please support these locations, especially the one nearest you.

• AWST Press (Austin, TX - publisher)
• Annie Bloom's (Portland, OR)
• Auntie's Bookstore (Spokane, WA)
• Fact and Fiction (Missoula, MT)
• Giant Nerd Books (Spokane, WA)
• Last Word Books (Olympia, WA)
• Wishing Tree Books (Spokane, WA)

John Kenny on Unexpected Weather Events: "at the centre is the warmth of love and family"

Unexpected Weather Events
cover by L.K. James
book published by AWST

Good news! Over in Dublin, Ireland, writer and editor John Kenny has been reading my newest book, Unexpected Weather Events, and sometime in my night and and his day, he published his thoughts on the book. 

I met John over a decade ago at a writer's convention in Dublin. Since then, John has been a steady supporter of my work. Early on, he read and reviewed The Floating Order, and later included my story "Lightning Tree" in the anthology he edited entitled Box of Delights; that story would later be collected in my book The Whole World at Once. More recently, John helped my story/novella "Water Under a Different Sky" find a home in Albedo One, the science-fiction/fantasy magazine based in Dublin. That story now stands as the final work in Unexpected Weather Events.  

And now that I've published my next book, John has written about it. After he shares a masterfully concise and accurate description of each story, he concludes:

For all that this collection examines the heartache of loss and the destructiveness of the world around us (‘Room Under the Stairs’), it’s important to highlight, though, that at the centre of all these stories is the warmth of love and family, which is made palpable through the keen eye of Pringle’s beautifully crafted prose. 

Please, read the full review here: John Kenny reviews Unexpected Weather Events. 

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• John Kenny reviews Hezada! I Miss You
• John Kenny reviews The Whole World at Once
• John Kenny reviews The Floating Order 

Past writing John Kenny has shared on this website:

• My Regrettable Non-Relationship with Libraries 
• On his reading and recommendation by Clarice Lispector's Hour of the Star 

Hezada! I Miss You on The Writer's Block Radio Show of L.A. Talk Radio

The Writer's Block Radio Show via L.A. Talk Radio

The Writer's Block is a weekly interview show broadcast by L.A. Talk Radio. Hosted by Jim Christina and Bobbi Jean Bell, the show features a different author every week, no matter the genre--from poetry to western novels to story collections to circus novels like mine.

I first met Jim and Bobbi Jean when I discovered the show during my book tour for The Whole World at Once. Due to the show's popularity, they were booking a year out, but booked me they did, and I joined them in March 2018; I felt an immediate bond as we talked. So much so that last night, I happily returned to discuss Hezada! I Miss You. 

When the show came to its natural end, I wanted to extend our conversation past the run time--for hadn't we just begun? An hour is not so much when spent with kindred spirits.

Highlights: the laughter, the discussion of overwriting in order to under-write, their giving me the space to speak about why I felt driven to write this book, despite its psychological toll. 

So much thanks to Jim and Bobbi Jean for taking the time to read my work and caring about it and how we talk about it. I appreciate you both so much, and look forward to the time we meet again. 

Listen to our discussions (click title link)

• Hezada! I Miss You interview (April 2, 2020)
• The Whole World at Once interview (March 8, 2018)

Jim Christina

Bobbi Jean Bell

Listen to The Writer's Block every Thursday, no matter what time zone you live in. And, of course, you can listen to the recordings at any time: https://www.latalkradio.com/content/writers-block

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Book Your Stocking with Abby Freeland

Book Your Stocking: December 21

Today is our twenty-first edition of Book Your Stocking, a new reading series in which every day of December a reader shares his/her/their reading wish-lists or give-lists. 

Please welcome today's reader, Abby Freeland.

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Giving List

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxanne Gay

Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Wood: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia, edited by Laura Long and Doug Van Gundy

The Sarah Book, Scott McClanahan

 

Fen, Daisy Johnson

Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, Suzy Hansen

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia, Steven Stoll

Precious Little Sleep: The Complete Baby Sleep Guide for Modern Parents, Alexis Dubief

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Abby Freeland,
photograph used with permission

About today's reader:

Abby Freeland is the sales and marketing director at West Virginia University Press and the editor of Vandalia Press, its fiction imprint.

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Check out more recommendations from Book Your Stocking contributors: 

http://www.erinpringle.com/p/book-your-stocking.html