August 17, 2019 marks the first Bookstore Romance Day, a grassroots celebration of the Romance genre by over 100 bookstores across the United States. Billie Bloebaum, the founder and “Evil Mastermind” behind the movement, sat down with Shelf Unbound to discuss her career in bookselling, misconceptions about Romance genre, and increasing the visibility of independent[…]
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About Tiffany Scandal Tiffany Scandal is the author of three books and the Managing Editor at King Shot Press. Her second book (Jigsaw Youth, 2015, Ladybox Books) exists as an audiobook which the author narrates herself. Her third book (Shit Luck, 2017, Eraserhead Press) was a Wonderland Award finalist for Best Novel and received an[…]
Feature Interview: Ashley Frampton, founder of Fierce Female February
By shelfmedia Feature, Interview Aug 04, 2019
The Woman Behind Fierce Female February When did you launch your blog, Falling Down the Book Hole? What motivated you to begin blogging about books? AF: It has been a little over 6 years since I created my first blog post about books. [The blog] has gone through many name changes and designs since then[…]
Conscious Step was created to bring more awareness to the problems faced by the world today and the organizations fighting these problems. Each pair of these socks show your commitment to education for all and provide one book to children in Asia through the work of Room to Read. Room to Read seeks to transform[…]
@Cityofdeja Tell Us A Little about You and your Bookstagram account? @Cityofdeja: My name is Deja. I’m a 19 year old college student from Texas with a knack for reading and collecting. Cityofdeja is my happy place on Instagram where I can talk about books all day and interact with other book lovers! I started[…]
Interview: Julia Dixon Evans, Author of How to Set Yourself On Fire
By shelfmedia Interview Jul 07, 2019
About How to Set Yourself On Fire Sheila’s life is built of little thievings. Adrift in her mid-thirties, she sleeps in fragments, ditches her temp jobs, eavesdrops on her neighbor’s Skype calls, and keeps a stolen letter in her nightstand, penned by a UPS driver she barely knows. Her mother is stifling and her father[…]
Tell us a little about The Reservoir Tapes and how it relates to your previous book, Reservoir 13. JM:I have no shame in calling The Reservoir Tapes a ‘prequel’ to Reservoir 13. Portmanteau words are the best words. These stories all take place in the days and months leading up to the event with which[…]
Hello? by Liza Wiemer One HELLO can change a life. One HELLO can save a life. So Hello? is your YA debut novel and the first to be published. Can you tell us a little bit about the experience and what Hello? is about? LW: Hello? tested me in ways I could never have expected.[…]
Your story depicts a neglected, poor Michigan neighborhood without hope except for one man, Bishop. It also has a hint of personal importance to you. Tell us how you developed the story. DD: The Sons of Shea was a passion project for me. It began as a hobby — I had no strategy for publishing[…]
Further Joy by John Brandon Quirky, inventive characters populate John Brandon’s first short story collection, from a down-on-his-luck former high school football star to a little league player obsessed with entrepreneurship. Each of the 11 stories is a winner. Shelf Unbound: You’ve written three novels, and this is your first collection of short stories. What[…]
