Interview: Michael Pronko Author of The Last Train: A Tokyo Mystery
Winner of the 2018 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book Shelf Unbound: You’ve lived in Tokyo for two decades—what interested you about Tokyo as the setting for The Last Train? Michael Pronko: Tokyo is always provoking my curiosity. Japanese culture, and Tokyo life, too, has this respect for what is concealed or veiled from […]
Interview: Batya Casper Author of Israela
Finalist of the 2018 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book Shelf Unbound: Tell us about your book. Batya Casper: Israela is a novel about Israel: its history and its complex social-structure. It is about people who send their children off to war from generation to generation with no end in sight—their traditions, the fears […]
Interview: Chad Gordon Author of Wealth by Virtue
Finalist of the 2018 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book Shelf Unbound: Tell us about your book. Chad Gordon: In my observation, most people share a central fear: that at some point in their lives, they will need money and not have it. Wealth is the absence of that fear. Wealth by Virtue is […]
Interview: Kathleen Wakefield Author of In the Foam of the Blue Waves
Finalist of the 2018 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book Shelf Unbound: Tell us about your book. Kathleen Wakefield: I began writing In the Foam of the Blue Waves from a distant unfulfilled desire to walk from Oregon to Mexico. I walked, in my mind, watching the seagulls, the waves, the blue skies—the skaters, […]
Interview: Michael Stanley Author of Dying to Live
Finalist of the 2018 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book Shelf Unbound: Tell us about your book. Michael Stanley: Dying to Live is a story about what would happen if a plant were found that enabled people to live longer. It is a story of avarice and greed. When an old Bushman is found […]
Interview: Carole P. Roman Author of Rocket-Bye
Finalist of the 2018 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book Shelf Unbound: Tell us about your book. Carole P. Roman: I wrote Rocket-Bye as a ‘love letter’ to my grandchildren. We love the night sky and the words just flowed out in one take. The two boys are my grandsons-they are cousins. I […]
Feature Interview: Winner of the Pete Delohery Award for Best Sports-Related Book
The Pete Delohery Award We created the Pete Delohery Award in honor of the late indie author of the boxing-themed novel Lamb to the Slaughter. We’re proud to honor Pete’s creativity and passion for writing with this award. We talked to his wife Pat Delohery about Pete and his writing. Shelf Unbound: Tell us a […]
Review: Hero-A-Go-Go by Michael Eury
Hero-A-Go-Go! is a loving and meticulously-researched tribute to the Camp Age, an all-too-brief bygone era when superheroes and other pop-culture phenoms didn’t take themselves so seriously. Eury’s study begins with a meditation on what may represent the pinnacle of 1960’s camp culture, the Batman TV series starring Adam West and Burt Ward. Arguing that Batman […]
Excerpt: The Amendment Killer by Ronald S. Barak
About the Book: http://www.ronaldsbarak.com “WE HAVE YOUR GRANDDAUGHTER. HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.” That’s the text message Supreme Court Justice Arnold Hirschfeld receives as hearings commence in the U.S. Supreme Court to determine the fate of the 28th Amendment – enacted to criminalize abuse of power on the part of our political representatives. In […]
Excerpt: A Summer of Good-Byes by Fred Misurella
About the Book: www.fredmisurella.com PASSION IN PROVENCE:Ben and Lee Alto follow Van Gogh’s 19th century path to Provence, hoping to find inspiration for their own lives and give their son, Misha, some insight into a world completely different from their own. They find art, of course, and a world of beautiful landscapes, warm temperatures, and, […]