Interview: Mary Emerick Author of The Geography of Water

Mary Emerick’s debut novel is a beautifully rendered, moving story about stark lives in a stark place: remote Alaska.  University of Alaska Press Shelf Unbound: You earned a degree in creative writing but have largely spent your career in other pursuits: you’ve been a wilderness kayaker in Alaska, a firefighter, and you currently work for […]

Interview: Alice Robinson Author of Anchor Point

Affirm Press In spare, elegiac prose, Australian novelist Alice Robinson unfolds a family saga in the shadow of devastating climate change.  Shelf Unbound: In your acknowledgements at the end of the book, you write, “That the landscapes and natural beauty I have so  adored and been inspired by may not endure, due to climate change, […]

Podcast: Nathan Latka

In Episode #195, of  Nathan speaks with Margaret Brown, the owner and publisher of Shelf Media a company that holds and manages a variety of free digital publications. Listen as Nathan and Margaret talk about the art of driving revenue from publishing, what it takes to turn a profit, and how digital publishing works. LISTEN TO THE […]