Indie Review: Unseen City by Amy Shearn
Indie Review: Unseen City by Amy Shearn The Past Meets the Present Shearn’s book, Unseen City, is an unexpected entry into an historical home and the contrast between life and death. Or, perhaps more fitting, the contrast between living and death. Told in 3rd person omniscient POV, Unseen City takes readers on a journey into […]
Indie Review: Summer of the Cicadas by Chelsea Catherine
Indie Review: Summer of the Cicadas by Chelsea Catherine A Slow Burn Everything about Jessica “Jess” is a slow burn. From the way she yearns for Natasha to the lingering scent of death that she can’t escape. Jess smolders in the fire pit of life where she encounters a chorus of cicadas that threatens to […]
Indie Review: Not My Ruckus by Chad Musick
Indie Review: Not My Ruckus by Chad Musick Not My Ruckus is a disturbing and compelling novel told from an unusual perspective. While not labeled “Young Adult,” it seems geared for this audience. It’s 1980 in Texas, where 14-year-old Clare lives with Frank, her big but cowardly older brother; her “ample” mother and her secretive […]
Interview: George Mercer, Author of Harking.
Interview: George Mercer, Author of Harking 2018 and 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medalist, George worked for more than three decades as a national park warden in Canada, including work in six national parks on both east and west coasts, the North and the Rocky Mountains. George is the author of Dyed In The […]
Feature: YA, A Love Story
Feature: YA, A Love Story “Calling a book ‘young adult’ is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it’s a useless abstraction and should be discarded.”– Eliot Schrefer “I was a ‘young adult’ when I wrote ‘The Outsiders,’ although it was not a genre at […]
Shelf Unbound Awards The Talking Drum as the 2020 Indie Book Award Winner.
Shelf Unbound congratulates author Lisa Braxton whose book, The Talking Drum, was selected as the 2020 Indie Book Award winner. Shelf Unbound has been selecting the best in the Indie book world since 2014 and this year is no different. The Talking Drum was selected by the editors who had more than 300 entries to […]
Indie Review: The Living Days by Ananda Devi, Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
Indie Review: The Living Days by Ananda Devi, Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman A Realistic Fairy Tale. Kirkus describes The Living Days as “a gorgeously written, profoundly upsetting fairy tale of race, class, power, and desire.” Profoundly upsetting? Yes. A gorgeously written fairy tale? No. The portrayal of Cub and his poverty-stricken family living in the […]
Interview: Stephen Snyder. Translator for The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Interview: Stephen Snyder. Translator for The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa “It’s difficult to imagine a world without translated literature and other forms of writing. We would be a sadly reduced globe with access to only works that were written in the one or two or three languages we might be able to read.” Have […]
Interview: Robert Chandler. Translator of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad
Interview: Robert Chandler. Translator of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad Inspired by his love of Russian folk tales and a desire to share them with English friends, Robert Chandler has been translating books for over four decades. Chandler describes his unique partnership with his wife in the telling of author Vasily Grossman’s tale of wartime devastation and […]
Interview: Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relaño, Translators of Garden By The Sea
Interview: Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relaño, Translators of Garden By The Sea Mercè Rodoreda’s novel Garden by the Sea is a story that drifts; filled with wealthy friends enjoying many summers together under the watchful eye of the gardener. The “slow moving drama” is what Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relaño enjoy most about it. Mother […]