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• Chris’s new novel, A GRACIOUS NEIGHBOR, is forthcoming from Little A in the fall of 2022
• THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO is a USA Today bestseller
• 11 STORIES is a finalist in The Texas Center for the Book’s Texas Author Project Awards 2019
• The Texas Library Association includes THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO in their Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List for 2020
• The Houston Chronicle includes THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO in their “15 Favorite Books of 2019“
• THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO in the Houston Chronicle feature, “I can’t remember a better year for books by Houstonians“
• Book Riot includes THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO in its list of “books you might have missed in 2019“
• The American Booksellers Association (ABA) includes THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO on their November 2019 Indie Next List Now in Paperback
• The New York Times highlights THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO in Paperback Row in the November 8, 2019 issue
• A case of literary irony: more than 1,000 copies of Chris Cander’s THE WORD BURGLAR were stolen from a storage unit
• Entertainment Weekly casts THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO, January 25, 2019
• THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO makes 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 January 21, 2019
• 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 (ABA) 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