Cheryl Grey Bostrom | Updates

When a Character Shows Up in the Flesh

Cheryl Grey Bostrom — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:25:52 -0400

Meet Tessie, from What the River Keeps! She surprised me the other day. A fun piece to write.

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Sorting Photos Before They Sort Me

Cheryl Grey Bostrom — Sat, 7 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A simple system for a ridiculous pile.

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Not for the Naked Eye

Cheryl Grey Bostrom — Sat, 7 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Thoughts on auroras and the unseen world.

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How NOT to Start a Year

Cheryl Grey Bostrom — Sat, 3 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When beauty is armor

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A Bare-limbed Season

Cheryl Grey Bostrom — Mon, 1 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

How three authors hunt Christmas.

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Why the Dog Sits Out in the Cold

Cheryl Grey Bostrom — Sat, 1 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Plus a giveaway of biochemist Sy Garte's new book: Beyond Evolution

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Maple Memos

Cheryl Grey Bostrom — Sat, 4 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

https://cherylgreybostrom.substack.com/p/maple-memos?r=4xb7l

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Elwha Love

Cheryl Grey Bostrom — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Behind the scenes of a river and dancers and gatherings.

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Book Signing - Connections Christian Store

Cheryl Grey Bostrom — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

What: Meet the Author / Book Signing

When: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Saturday, August 23

Where: Connections Christian Store, 1730 Front Street, Lynden, WA

Cheryl's new novel What the River Keeps will be in stock! She'd love to chat with you about the book (and she'll be delighted to sign yours!)

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Sequim Library - Meet the Author - Cheryl Grey Bostrom

Cheryl Grey Bostrom — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Join award-winning author Cheryl Grey Bostrom for book giveaway, Q&A, and reading from her new Elwha Novel What the River Keeps.

When: 6:00 pm, Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Where: Sequim Library, Sequim, WA

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Olympic Peninsula Event - What the River Keeps

Cheryl Grey Bostrom — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

PORT ANGELES / OLYMPIC PENINSULA FRIENDS ... You're INVITED to a BOOK CELEBRATION for my new Elwha novel WHAT THE RIVER KEEPS!!

WHERE?: Field Arts and Events Hall in Port Angeles

WHEN?: 7:00 pm on Tuesday, August 19

COST?: FREE!

AUTHOR?: formerly CHERYL HOBSON, (PAHS grad—a long time ago)

Fellow former (Salmon) Derby Days Queen Gail Thomson Ralston will MC, my childhood next-door neighbor Deb Anderson Reed will ask me probing questions—and you can, too. I'll read from the story and will draw book giveaway winners. Port Book and News will be on hand with copies of all my novels.

Named a "Best Indies Book of June 2025" by trade review giant KIRKUS REVIEWS, What the River Keeps opens in Seattle, then quickly moves to the Elwha Valley, Port Angeles, Sequim, and Clallam Bay.

Please spread the word? Can't wait to see you there.

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Book Launch! Cheryl Grey Bostrom in Conversation with Susan Meissner - What the River Keeps

Cheryl Grey Bostrom — Thu, 3 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

August 12, 6:30-8:00 at the Lynden Meeting Room, Lynden WA Library

We are pleased to welcome two celebrated local authors back to the Lynden Library for the launch of Cheryl Grey Bostrom's latest novel, What the River Keeps.

About What the River Keeps:

In the beautiful PNW, a reclusive biologist returns to her childhood home on the Elwha River, where she untangles her mysterious past.

Hildy Nybo is a successful biologist, her study of the Pacific Northwest’s wild fish both a passion and a career. But behind her professional brilliance, Hildy’s reclusive private life reflects a childhood fraught with uncertainty. Despite her father’s love and her mother’s sympathy, she grew up constantly losing even her most cherished belongings, unable to recall where she misplaced them. Haunted by the confusion of her early years, she now records her life in detailed diaries and clings to memory-prompting keepsakes.

Then her mother’s health fails, and Hildy accepts a job near her childhood home, joining a team of scientists who will help restore her beloved Elwha River after two century-old dams fall. There Hildy settles into a cabin on her family’s rustic resort—a place she both loves and dreads, for reasons she can’t fully explain.

When a local artist rents an adjacent cabin for her pottery studio, Hildy resists the intrusion—until intriguing Luke Rimmer arrives to help with the cabin’s renovation. Now a few years beyond a tragedy that brought him to his knees, Luke recognizes a kindred soul in Hildy. As he earns her trust, they uncover her mysterious history, and Hildy dares to wonder if she can banish her shadows—and follow her river’s course to freedom

“Bostrom’s writing is vivid . . . moving and satisfying. A touching love story. KIRKUS REVIEWS (Starred Review)

A new novel from the award-winning author of Sugar Birds, “an engrossing tale” (Kirkus Reviews), and Leaning on Air, “an exquisitely nuanced love story” (BookTrib).

A keen student of the natural world and the workings of the human heart, author Cheryl Grey Bostrom captures the mystery and wonder of both in her lyrical, surprising fiction.

For most of her life, she has roamed the Pacific Northwest settings found not only in her newest book What the River Keeps, but also in her critically-acclaimed, award-winning novels Sugar Birds (Christy finalist, Amazon bestseller, Book of the Year) and Leaning on Air. An avid birder and nature photographer, Cheryl lives with her veterinarian husband and a pack of half-trained Gordon setters in Whatcom County.

Cheryl will be joined in conversation by Susan Meissner. Susan is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction with nearly a million books sold and in eighteen languages. She is an author, speaker and writing workshop leader with a background in community journalism. Her novels include Only the Beautiful and The Nature of Fragile Things, and we recently hosted her for the launch of her latest novel, Map to Paradise. Susan lives in Blaine with her husband Bob, a retired Air Force chaplain, and their yellow Lab, Winston.

Book purchases will be available through Village Books at the event! Get copies signed by the author!

Seating is limited; registration is required to secure a spot.

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