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Entertainment Weekly casts THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO, January 25, 2019
THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO made the The Southern Indie Bestseller List for the week ended Sunday, February 10, 2019
Chris is live on Thacker Mountain Radio with music from THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO by Cecil Warden
Listen to Chris in conversation with Helga Kasimoff of Kasmioff-Blüthner Pianos at Skylight Books
Paste Magazine named THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO (designed by Kelly Blair) as one of the Best Book Covers of January 2019
Read it Forward says THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO is one of the top 40 Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2019
Book Marks gives THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO a “RAVE” for its reviews
Publishers Weekly chose THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO as Top Book of the Week 1/21
Deep South magazine named THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO as one of their Top 10 Book Picks for the New Year
Garden & Gun magazine added THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO to their January Book List
The American Booksellers Association included THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO on their February 2019 Indie Next Great Reads list
Real Simple Magazine included THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO on their Short List (Five Books That Won’t Disappoint)
Real Simple Magazine put THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO on their Best Books of 2019 (So Far) list
Publishers Weekly mentioned THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO in the article, “Preorders Make a 2019 Title a Houston Indie’s 2018 Bestseller”
Bookish put THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO on their Winter 2019’s Must-Read Fiction list
Nashville Lifestyles magazine put THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO on its list of 4 Books to Read This Month
John Stevenson (director, Kung Fu Panda) has attached as director for Germs!
Chris Cander in conversation with author Paula McLain
Local Author Chris Cander Supports Independent Bookstore Day
Chris’s unpublished first novel ONE LAST TIME FOREVER short listed for the Half the World Global Literati Award Top 40
Chris is a recipient of the Peter Taylor Scholarship in fiction for the 2016 Sewanee Writers’ Conference
WHISPER HOLLOW long listed for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance’s (SIBA) The Great Santini Fiction Prize 2016
Houston Chronicle selected WHISPER HOLLOW as one of its 15 Notable Books of 2015
WHISPER HOLLOW included in Houston’s Must-Read Books of 2015
WHISPER HOLLOW named one of NPR’s On Point’s Best Books of 2015
Brazos Bookstore included WHISPER HOLLOW in its Best of 2015
WHISPER HOLLOW nominated for the 2015 Kirkus Prize: Fiction
Comic Animations (in partnership with Cinesite Studios) has optioned GERMS! The Movie
Local Houston Magazine included WHISPER HOLLOW in their list of Summer Reads by Houston authors
Deep South Magazine included WHISPER HOLLOW in their Summer Reading List
The Riveter included WHISPER HOLLOW in their list: Eight Novels to Spring Into
Working Mother Magazine included WHISPER HOLLOW in their list: 14 Spring Break Books for Your Family, Your Friends and You
Glamour Magazine included WHISPER HOLLOW in their list: The Best New Novels Out in March
The American Booksellers Association (ABA) listed WHISPER HOLLOW as one of its Indie Next Great Reads for April 2015
Popsugar.com included WHISPER HOLLOW in their March 2015 list: 25 Sexy and Sweet Books You Need to Read This Month
Shelf Awareness listed WHISPER HOLLOW as one of Winter Institute 2015’s Buzz Books
Read Her Like An Open Book named WHISPER HOLLOW one of 30 Books to Keep You Warm This Winter in their 2015 Fiction Preview