Interview: Mary Emerick Author of The Geography of Water
Mary Emerick’s debut novel is a beautifully rendered, moving story about stark lives in a stark place: remote Alaska. University of Alaska Press Shelf Unbound: You earned a degree in creative writing but have largely spent your career in other pursuits: you’ve been a wilderness kayaker in Alaska, a firefighter, and you currently work for […]
Interview: Alice Robinson Author of Anchor Point
Affirm Press In spare, elegiac prose, Australian novelist Alice Robinson unfolds a family saga in the shadow of devastating climate change. Shelf Unbound: In your acknowledgements at the end of the book, you write, “That the landscapes and natural beauty I have so adored and been inspired by may not endure, due to climate change, […]
Podcast: Nathan Latka
In Episode #195, of Nathan speaks with Margaret Brown, the owner and publisher of Shelf Media a company that holds and manages a variety of free digital publications. Listen as Nathan and Margaret talk about the art of driving revenue from publishing, what it takes to turn a profit, and how digital publishing works. LISTEN TO THE […]
Excerpt: Message Stick by Laine Cunningham
http://www.lainecunningham.com Featured in Oct/Nov 2015 Issue: Read Global When a man dies in the desert, he is completely alone. At thirty-nine, Ian McCabe knew this simple fact. He had spent most of his life working the demanding seasonal jobs that kept Australia’s rural towns alive. He had seen a flat tire turn deadly, and knew […]
Excerpt: With Animal by Carol Guess and Kelly Magee
About the Book: Editor’s Award for Literature “In beautifully rendered, deeply imaginative short stories, Carol Guess and Kelly Magee mine the depths of parenthood while also exploring gender and sexuality.” —The Editors of Shelf Unbound Black Lawrence Press Fiction. LGBT Studies. Hybrid twins: one human, one horse. A man pregnant with a kangaroo, a woman raising […]
Excerpt: 1918: The Great Pandemic, A Novel by David Cornish, MD
About the Book: http://www.davidcornishbooks.com *FIRST PLACE, LITERARY FICTION — Independent Publishers of New England Book Awards (IPNE.org). Written by a doctor of Internal Medicine, “1918” is a rigorously researched and accurate historical novel about the pandemic that killed up to 100 million people. The story is told through the eyes of Dr. Edward Noble, an […]
Excerpt: The Hero of Hucklebuck Drive by Gerry Burke
About the Book: http://www.authorgburke.authorsxpress.com Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, and Paddy Pest is equally comfortable being described as a garrulous gumshoe, a shameful shamus or a lecherous lounge lizard. When the Melbourne community is rocked by the news of abduction and murder, Paddy can smell the prospect of a retainer in the wind. […]
Excerpt: Murder at the Ocean Forest by Digger Cartwright
About the Book: http://www.diggercartwright.com http://www.mysterydigger.com When Faye Underwood, a distraught young woman, disappears from the elegant Ocean Forest Hotel, Feltus Boone LaMont, the quintessential Southern hotel detective, is drawn into the emotional drama surrounding the guests. As Feltus conducts his investigation into Fayes apparent murder, her husband, Terence, is found murdered in their suitewith the […]
Excerpt: Making a Living, Making a Life by Daniel Rose
About the Book: http://www.danielrose.orgFive decades of the best speeches of Daniel Rose, Chairman of Rose Associates. Winner of a number of national Cicero Speech awards, he has spoken at universities throughout the U.S., Europe and Africa on a broad variety of topics: economics, inner city education, racial problems, real estate, food & wine, and housing. […]
Excerpt: Opal Ridge by Victoria Capper
About the Book: http://www.victoriacapper.com Amidst the harsh landscape and beauty of the Australian outback, two people are unsure that they’re ready to commit to love.Jenna Mackenzie is ready for a change in her life. so, when her brother is injured just before he takes a job in the outback she leaps at the chance to […]