David Horsey, BEACH OF STARS

Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist for the Seattle Times and former editorial cartoonist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer David Horsey visits the store to launch his debut novel Beach of Stars, a modern odyssey driven by small choices, impulsive actions, bad timing, lucky coincidences and unchecked desires; the subtle tides that steer our lives toward calamity or bliss.

Copies of Beach of Stars will be available for purchase at the event.

The book begins with a college kid working a summer job in Mexico who, on a whimsical impulse, takes a beer to a young woman on a secluded beach. That simple act sets off a chain of events that, twenty years later, lures the man from his career in city politics into a search for the now-fugitive woman — a journey of revelation stretching from New York City to a remote Mexican beach town where he faces a star-crossed reckoning with the past.

More than a mystery, much more than a romance, Beach of Stars is a modern odyssey steered by small choices, impulsive actions, bad timing, lucky coincidences and unchecked desires; the subtle tides that steer our lives toward calamity or bliss. National Book Award winner, Charles Johnson calls the novel "amazingly good." Book editor and author Will Schwalbe says, "The book is terrific.”

David Horsey is a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. After a long career at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and six years as a political commentator for The Los Angeles Times, Horsey is now based at The Seattle Times. Horsey's well-received first novel, Beach of Stars, was released in December 2025. He has also published eleven books of political cartoons, including his four most recent, Refuge of Scoundrels (2013), Top of the Ticket (2016), Drawing Apart (2020) and Unhinged USA (2024). Besides winning Pulitzers for the Post-Intelligencer in 1999 and 2003, Horsey was a Pulitzer finalist in 1987 and again in 2014 after joining the LA Times. With a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington, Horsey began his journalism career as a political reporter for The Daily Journal-American in Bellevue, Washington. His career in Seattle and Los Angeles has taken him to national political party conventions, presidential primaries and debates, the Olympic Games, the Super Bowl, assignments in Europe, Japan and Mexico, and two extended stints working at the Hearst Newspapers Washington Bureau. As a Rotary Foundation Scholar, Horsey earned an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from both Seattle University and the University of Kent and has been recognized as one the 150 most distinguished graduates of the University of Washington. A fourth-generation Washingtonian, David Horsey lives in Seattle with his wife, Nole Ann.

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