Feature: Charles Dudley Warner: The journalist and author co-wrote The Gilded Age with Mark Twain
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900), author, critic, and editor, is best known today for his collaboration with Mark Twain on The Gilded Age (1873). Born in Plainfield, Massachusetts, on September 12, 1829, Warner worked on his guardian’s farm from ages eight to twelve, an experience that informs the memoir Being a Boy (1877). After graduating from Hamilton College in 1851, Warner, hoping […]
Feature: Editor Marc Schuster on writing The Greatest Show in the Galaxy: The Discerning Fan’s Guide to Doctor Who with Tom Powers
Walking the Labyrinth Our associate editor Marc Schuster on writing The Greatest Show in the Galaxy: The Discerning Fan’s Guide to Doctor Who with Tom Powers Tom answered the door in gold tights and angel wings. When he showed me inside, every room was filled with junk: marionettes, model spaceships, painted rocks. I might not have […]
Interview: Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, and Kevin Moffett, Authors of The Silent History
FSG: Unlike most books, The Silent History started as an app. How was it conceived? And what were the goals of putting it out as an app? Eli Horowitz: The general trends in e-books just seemed like a missed opportunity. We were losing lots of things that make print books special, but we weren’t getting […]
Interview: Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz, Author of The New World
Shelf Unbound: How did you decide to write this book together, and what was your writing process? Eli Horowitz: I had worked with Chris on his amazing novel The Children’s Hospital, and we had stayed in touch since then. The basic premise of The New World was something he had been chewing on for a […]
Interview: Carol Guess and Kelly MaGee, Author of With Animal
Shelf Unbound: How did you decide to write this book together, and what was your writing process? Carol Guess: Kelly and I were having coffee together (we both teach at Western Washington University) when we decided to collaborate on a book manuscript. My goal in collaboration is to challenge myself, to match myself with a […]
Interview: Gavin Kovite and Christopher Robinson, Authors of War of Encyclopaedists
Shelf Unbound: How did you decide to write this book together, and what was your writing process? Gavin Kovite: This is our first novel to be published, but not the first book we wrote together. We first met in Rome in 2004 during a study abroad program in poetry through the University of Washington. We […]
Feature: Jake Kerr, Author of Tommy Black and the Staff of Light
It’s the question I am asked the most: “Why are you self-publishing?” One of the reasons I’m asked the question is that the road to a traditional publishing contract and agent representation is open to me. Of course there are no guarantees, but after being nominated for two of the most respected awards in fantasy […]
Poetry: Leonard Nimoy
You and I have Learned by Leonard Nimoy You and I have learned The song of love, and we sing it well The song is ageless Passed on Heart to heart By those Who have seen What we see And known What we know And lovers who have Sung before Our love is ours To have […]
Excerpt: Broken Homes & Gardens by Rebecca Kelley
Joanna took a breath and dialed her mom’s number. “Joanna!” her mother screeched into the phone. The barrage of questions began: What happened? Why did you leave? What did the Czechs do to you? Why Portland? What are you going to do now? What were you thinking? Joanna couldn’t explain any of it. “I don’t […]
Review: Broken Record Nostalgia written by Caleb Michael Sarvis
Broken Record Nostalgia: Stories by Caleb Michael Sarvis The opening story of Broken Record Nostalgia reads like something out of Raymond Carver—or something Carver might have written if he’d been a twenty-something writer applying his craft in the twenty-somethingth century. It’s called “Click Click Harvey,” and it follows the adventures (or lack thereof) of three […]