Excerpt: Vanquish of the Dragon Shroud by Gregory E. Seller

About the Book: http://www.gregorysellerauthor.com Maxine Aronheart is the stunning wife of a handsome and successful Beverly Hills hedge fund manager. A celebratory evening on the company yacht Copious turns to horror as the yacht suddenly explodes and is engulfed in flames. Maxine is thrown overboard by her husband Logan, as Copious is rapidly sinking. He […]

Excerpt: The End By John Crawley

About the Book: http://www.johncrawleybooks.com Your final act in life is to ask your estranged brother – your only next of kin – to do one last thing for you – let you die in peace. But he refuses. He can’t fulfill your requests because God and the Catholic Church are standing in the way. He […]

Review: One More Day By Kelly Simmons

One More Day By Kelly Simmons In her third novel, One More Day, Kelly Simmons deftly demonstrates that she is an author who is not afraid to take risks when it comes to the art of storytelling. The novel centers on a young mother whose child is snatched from his car seat while she’s tending […]

Poetry: Rue by Melissa Bull

Arc by Melissa Bull Plastic strips sluice up and down December beams string against the white parchment the mismatched chairs the buckwheat pancakes while blinds stripe light on white and whiter white.  It is too cold for snow.  The day’s low sun feeds pale slights through blinds in ribbons stripes the cold apartment the mismatched […]

Interview: Kristel Derkowski Author of Six Million Trees

Derkowski’s memoir of working as a tree planter in the clear-cut forests of Canada is a riveting piece of literature.  Rocks Mills Pressrocksmillspress.com Shelf Unbound: Six Million Trees chronicles a few seasons you spent working as a tree planter in Canada. You were required to plant hundreds of trees per day and it was quite […]

Interview: Rosa Liksom Author of Compartment No. 6

Compartment No. 6 by Rosa Liksom translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers Liksom, a painter and filmmaker, creates a cinematic travelogue of a woman traversing Russia by train.  Graywolf Pressgraywolfpress.org Shelf Unbound: You tell the story of a young Finnish woman traveling by train from Moscow to Mongolia in the last years of the […]

Interview: Julie Marie Wade Author of Six

Six poems from the Lambda-award winning author of Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures and When I Was Straight Red Hen Press Redhen.org Shelf Unbound: You have six poems with six points of view. Why choose this structure and why six? Julie Marie Wade: Oh, I’m so glad you asked! Years ago, in the fall of […]