One editor and three authors spoke with Shelf Unbound about the appeal of the short story format and give deeper insight into their most recent collections! Alysia Constantine Editor of the forthcoming Short Stuff anthology, Duet Books, available June 2020 “Editing this great collection of stories, all of which feature queer characters, gave me hope that[…]
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Name: @bookslifehome Favorite Character: Bathsheba Everdene from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Favorite Genre: Historical Fiction Tell Us A Little about You. @bookslifehome: I’m a lifelong avid reader and book hoarder who is currently living in the sunshine state. I’m happily married to the love of my life Charles, and we both[…]
Author of self published Tales of Folk & Fey: A Wicked Lovely Collection. by Sara Grochowski Melissa Marr’s young adult first novel, Wicked Lovely, was published in 2007 by HarperCollins and she’s since published standalones and series for adults, the middle grade audience, and children. In recent years, Marr has continued to publish through traditional[…]
Name: @melannrosenthal Favorite Character: Lara Jean Song Covey of Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series Favorite Genre: Literary fiction, though memoir is a close second. Tell Us A Little about You and your Bookstagram account? @melannrosenthal: I am a Connecticut native and long-time NYC commuter. I’ve made the city a home away from[…]
Christy Wopat, author of Almost a Mother: Love, Loss, and Finding Your People When Your Baby Dies
By shelfmedia Interview Oct 17, 2019
During one of my summer breaks from college, I worked at a daycare in Lake Geneva, a nearby city. My job was to work with the school-aged kids, the ones who were not toddlers anymore, but not quite old enough to stay home alone. My coworker and I spent the summer dragging tweens around[…]
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[…]
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[…]
