Review: Babbling Corpse by Grafton Tanner
Babbling Corpse Grafton Tanner’s Babbling Corpse examines vaporwave, a musical movement that grapples with technology’s tendency to displace humans from the center of, well, the human experience. Because music is almost limitless and free, Tanner argues, it has essentially become “ghost music.” That is, like a ghost, music is always there, waiting for someone to […]
Feature: Promotion by Jake Kerr
my self-publishing journey In my previous column I noted how a single promotional site—Bookbub—helped set up the launch of my second book (Tommy Black and the Coat of Invincibility) by powering over 13,000 free downloads of book one (Tommy Black and the Staff of Light). In this column, I want to talk about free. Free as […]
Interview: Kuky Villafuerte, Nonprofit: Señorita
Kuky Villafuerte Through her nonprofit Señorita, Villafuerte is educating disadvantaged girls in Peru. “My plan is to see no woman on the streets in my city.” Shelf Unbound: What is Señorita and what is its mission? Kuky Villafuerte: I have the need to help other women, and the mission for Señorita is to empower women […]
Interview: Claudia Salazar Jiménez Author of Blood of the Dawn
A strong, intense debut novel examining the lives of three women during a time of heinous political violence in Peru. Shelf Unbound: Blood of the Dawn goes back to the 1980s when the extreme left terrorist group the Shining Path brutally tortured and killed thousands of Peruvians, many of them villagers, in what is now referred […]