Interview: David Grace Author of Death Never Lies
Winner of the 2014 Shelf Unbound Writing Competition for Best Independently Published Book Wildside Pressdavidgraceauthor.com Shelf Unbound: From the opening scene with two drug-crazed gunmen holding up a corner store, Death Never Lies is a nonstop page-turner that unfolds like a movie. It’s your 15th novel—what have you learned about creating a complex, tight plot in […]
Interview: Nancy Peacock Author of The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson: A Novel
Winner of the 2013 Shelf Unbound Writing Competition for Best Indie Book It’s 1875 in Drunken Bride, Texas, and the eve of former slave turned Comanche warrior Persimmon Wilson’s hanging. Nancy Peacock has created an enthralling character in Persy and a story that is at once an epic adventure, a love story, and a history […]
Interview: Jennifer Bresnick Author of The Last Death of Tev Chrisini
Winner of the Shelf Unbound Writing Competition for Best Self-Published Book Jennifer Bresnick’s enchanting Tolkien-esque epic fantasy The Last Death of Tev Chrisini captivated our judges from page one and held us in thrall through its conclusion 467 pages later. We fell in love with the story and its characters and with Bresnick’s assured literary […]
Interview: Mary L. Tabor Author of Who By Fire
Outer Banks Publishing Group Mary L. Tabor’s ingeniously constructed and emotionally rich Who by Fire has a middle-aged widower traversing the downward spiral of his marriage. Highly recommended for your book club. Shelf Unbound: You have your main character creating the story of his deceased wife’s affair through memoryand invention. It’s a novel approach to […]
Interview: Samantha Bee Author of I Know I Am, But What Are You?
Simon & Schusterwww.simonandschuster.com Most of us know comedian Samantha Bee from her work on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where she appears as a veteran mock news reporter who skewers politicians and pundits who have gone off the rails. Classic bits include riffs on Elliot Spitzer’s hooker-gate, Sarah Palin’s resignation as Alaska’s […]
Interview: Amanda Palmer
If you have yet to discover Amanda Palmer, prepare to be mesmerized. She’s got a critically acclaimed new album, Theatre is Evil, with an über-cool accompanying art book, The Grand Theft Art Companion. She’s got almost 900,000 Twitter followers. And she gives her music away for free. www.amandapalmer.net | facebook.com/amandapalmer youtube.com/amandapalmer | twitter: @amandapalmer Shelf […]
Interview: Wayne Thiebaud
by John Wilmderding Acquavella Gallerieswww.acquavellagalleries.com Rizolli International Publicationswww.rizzoliusa.com “In a career of almost unparalleled longevity and qualitative consistency, he has gained a much-admired seniority among American realist painters. Known for his sensuous brushwork, strong saturated colors, and manipulated spatial design, he has produced an unmistakably singular body of images in an equally personal style of […]
Interview: Kathleen Koch Author of Rising from Katrina: How My Mississippi Hometown Lost It All and Found What Mattered
John F. Blair, Publisherwww.blairpub.com In her account of the surreal experience of reporting on the all-but-complete destruction of her hometown of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, former CNN reporter Kathleen Koch gives what may be the best description of Hurricane Katrina’s impact for those of us lucky enough not to have been caught in its path. […]
Excerpt: Reborn and Other Versifications by A.E. Fonner
www.aefonner.com From “Preface” The thing about poetry is that it is very personal. I think a poet is suddenly inspired and locks him—or herself off in some closet to breathe life with words into the idea that had struck. When poets are done, what have they to show for their effort? A few lines on […]
Interview: Greg Gorman Author of FRAMED: Greg Gorman for l.a.Eyeworks
FRAMED: Greg Gorman for l.a.Eyeworks Photography by Greg Gorman Grafiche Damiani www.laeyeworks.com/framed For 30 years, photographer Greg Gorman has made an artful, hip spectacle of artful, hip spectacles with his portrait images for l.a.Eyeworks’ legendary ad campaign, now featured in the new book FRAMED: Greg Gorman for l.a.Eyeworks. We talk eyewear and icons with Gorman. […]