Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cherie Priest

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 13:52, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cherie Priest

Non-notable author. Only claim to notability is the book (apparently based on a blog) "Four and Twenty Blackbirds," which has an amazon.com SalesRank of 292,540. Claims to have been shortlisted for a prize for books based on blogs, but the competition was sponsored by vanity press Lulu.com, and blog-based books aren't exactly a big enough genre (in my opinion) that being recognized within it means terribly much. "cherie priest" "four and twenty blackbirds" produces 268 unique Google hits. -Elmer Clark 03:52, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete without prejudice. Where are all these vanity books and authors coming from all of a sudden? Daniel Case 04:31, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment They're easily found just by looking at "what links here" for the various presses listed at vanity press. If only finding non-notable bands was so easy... :\ -Elmer Clark 04:34, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. Dlyons493 Talk 11:32, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete — per nom. SynergeticMaggot 12:54, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom.Victoriagirl 17:55, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS is published by Tor Books, which is not a vanity press. The author has two more books in the series forthcoming from Tor as well as inclusion in anthologies and forthcoming work from publishers such as Subterranean Press. FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS was not "based on" a blog; rather, the author used a blog as a working tool in its composition. The author is a known and up-and-coming presence in the speculative fiction field. elizabethgenco 06:41, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

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