Feature: A Nation of Strong Women
by Christian Adrian Brown September 25 marks the annual National Women’s Health and Fitness Day. Some might wonder why such a day is needed or necessary, and the answer is simple: women are generally not encouraged to participate in group sport or activity. Women’s soccer, while growing in audience interest, especially after this summer’s FIFA […]
Review: Pretty in Punxsutawney by Laurie Boyle Crompton
Review: Pretty in Punxsutawney by Megan Lord Groundhog Day meets Breakfast Club meets Pretty in Pink meets Freaky Friday – like WOAH! This book thoroughly surprised me. I started reading it thinking eh, it’ll be cheesy, but cute, I’ll give it a go. It came through on my expectations, but also was surprisingly GOOD, and […]
Interview: Billie Bloebaum, Founder of Bookstore Romance Day
August 17, 2019 marks the first Bookstore Romance Day, a grassroots celebration of the Romance genre by over 100 bookstores across the United States. Billie Bloebaum, the founder and “Evil Mastermind” behind the movement, sat down with Shelf Unbound to discuss her career in bookselling, misconceptions about Romance genre, and increasing the visibility of independent […]
Feature: Fierce Female
Roundup of Fierce Female Authors Who Talk About what it means to be truely fierce What does it mean to be a fierce female? We asked various women authors to tell us what it means to truely be a fierce female. Author roundup featuring Karen Connelly, Susan Welch, Danielle Wong, Joan Dempsey, Jo Giese, and […]
Review: Becoming Beatriz by Tami Charles
What to Read in YA Fiction By Sara Grochowski Young adult fiction continues to become one of the most popular genres – mostly for adults. Join us each issue to find your next YA read. “They say when you see a wishmaker flower, you’re supposed to make a wish and blow. I thrust my […]
Excerpt: Resurrection Girls by Ava Morgyn
About the Book: http://www.avamorgyn.com Olivia stopped living the day her brother died. Three years ago, Robby toddled into the backyard pool and drowned on her watch, taking the best parts of their mother and father with him. Now sixteen, Olivia can no longer remember what it feels like to really be alive, until a family […]
Excerpt: Plastered in Pretty by N.C. Marks
About the Book: http://www.houseofnehesipublish.com PLASTERED IN PRETTY is a dystopian tale. N.C. Marks activates, deactivates at will the Alice in Wonderland syndrome in a Caribbean paradise. Facebook and Instagram are virtual religious icons. A pyromaniac burns a new-born in the late night, office-bound civil servants chat only via WhatsApp, friends with benefits, “Persons With Pedigree,” […]
Excerpt: You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian
About the Book: http://www.scoutpressbooks.com/ You Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sex…until they can’t have sex […]
Excerpt: All We Have is Our Voice by Carole Stone
About the Book: http://www.dosmadres.com Poetry. Women’s Studies. “In ALL WE HAVE IS OUR VOICE, Carole Stone’s fierce dramatic monologues, delivered by the wives and lovers of such titans as Tolstoy, Lincoln, Freud, Yeats, Joyce, and (Dylan) Thomas, incisively protest patriarchal privilege and exploitation. Taut ekphrastic poems aptly probe the artistic struggles and transports of Kahlo, […]
Excerpt: Hotwheel by Aja Moore
About the Book: www.metatron.press Poetry. Women’s Studies. Aja Moore’s debut collection of poetry is awash in sincerity and the ways in which we simultaneously crave, doubt, avoid, and totally disparage it. HOTWHEEL, in turn, reveals its precious life-affirming conviction, despite its incertitude–or precisely because of it. Read an Excerpt: Featured in Aug/Sept 2019 Issue: Fierce […]