Review: The Swim
The Swim: A NovelAbout Friendship and the Longest Swim in the World by Jens Colting Timid, 14-year-old Tiny undertakes a life-saving swim sparked by an unlikely friendship with Goliath. Bonding over their imperfections, they form a deep friendship, quickly becoming inseparable. Goliath, 12 years old, studious and clever, is wheelchair bound and his health is […]
Surfing With Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning
Surfing With Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning by Aaron James Author, Aaron James, begs to differ with Jean-Paul Sartre, who once declared waterskiing to be “the ideal limit of aquatic sports. The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once declared “the ideal limit of aquatic sports . . . is waterskiing.” The avid […]
Tired of California: The Beach Boys’ Holland Revisited
Tired of California: The Beach Boys’ Holland Revisited by Marc Schuster Tired of California examines the efforts of the Beach Boys to reinvent themselves in the early 1970s as they recorded their critically acclaimed Holland album. The story of Holland is the story of a band trying to reinvent itself. Drawing on a wide range […]
PPM020: Building A Podcast: Global Niche Audience With Digital Magazine Publisher Margaret Brown
Featured on Power Marketing Podcast Today on the podcast power marketing podcast, we’re talking with Margaret Brown, founder and publisher of Shelf Media, which publishes a number of digital only magazines, and the Shelf Media podcast. Margaret oversees global niche audience digital magazines such as Shelf Unbound which features the best of small press and […]
Digital Media Digestion Tips
Featured on Positively Effect Podcast Margaret Brown is the founder and publisher of Shelf Media, which publishes three digital-only magazines and hosts the Shelf Media Podcast. Shelf Unbound book review magazine, the 2015 Maggie Award Winner for Best Digital Magazine, reaches more than 125,000 avid readers in 75 countries. In fall 2013, Shelf Media launched Middle Shelf: […]
It’s All Journalism: Magazine editor jumps to online publishing
Posted on August 19, 2016 by Jason Zaragoza – It’s All Journalism When Margaret Brown first saw the iPad, she saw her future. “I have loved magazines since the time I could read,” Brown said. “I’ve subscribed to magazines my whole life. I always read every single magazine my parents subscribed to. That’s my passion, […]
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 […]