Excerpt: The Stolen Twin by Michele Pariza Wacek

About the Book: http://www.MicheleParizaWacek.com On the surface, Kit Caldwell has it all. A senior in college with her future ahead of her, lots of friends, lots of parties…not to mention also having the eye of Tommy, the star quarterback of the football team. But underneath, Kit’s life is a charade, built on a foundation of […]

Excerpt: TotIs by Joseph Kazden

About the Book: http://www.jjkazden.com Einstein was not joking when he said “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.” This runner up winner of Shelf Unbound’s ‘2016 Best Indie Book’ explores the nature of human perception and consciousness. This exploration delves into the process that gives us, as biology, an experience of reality, and […]

Excerpt: What Doesn’t Kill You by Donna Huston Murray

About the Book: http://www.donnahustonmurray.com Awarded HONORABLE MENTION, 2015 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. Lauren Beck’s friends, phone, home, credit and credibility are gone, severed with surgical precision by an enemy intent on framing her for murder. Is it one of the insureds she was hired to investigate? The fellow employee she upstaged? Does the daughter of […]

Excerpt: Sorrows & Songs by Janice Wood Wetzel

About the Book: http://www.sorrowsandsongs.com In words as clear and sharp as cut crystal glass, the memoir Sorrows & Songs: One Lifetime – Many Lives unflinchingly tells the story of a bright, beautiful, and promising young child who forged towards a fully realized life in spite of years of physical and mental abuse at the hands […]

Poetry: Gregory Pardlo Author of Digest

Written by Himself by Gregory Pardlo I was born in minutes in a roadside kitchen a skillet whispering my name. I was born to rainwater and lye; I was born across the river where I was borrowed with clothespins, a harrow tooth, broadsides sewn in my shoes. I returned, though it please you, through no […]

Interview: David Grace Author of The Wrong Side of a Gun

FINALIST of the 2016 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book “Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Quinn’s search for the one missing person he can’t find, his own daughter.” Shelf Unbound: You’ve written dozens of novels, both crime and science fiction. How has your writing evolved since you began? David Grace: I’ve sharpened my craft in […]

Interview: Fiona Ingram Author of The Secret of the Sacred Scarab

FINALIST of the 2016 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book http://fionaingram.com “A thrilling adventure for two young boys, whose fun trip to Egypt turns into a dangerously exciting quest to uncover an ancient and mysterious secret” Shelf Unbound: How did you go about creating your main characters Adam and Justin Sinclair? Fiona Ingram: […]