February / March 2021

This issue is dear to my heart. It is our first crossover edition featuring our sister publication, Girl Plus Book, a young adult book blog. Girl Plus Book started as a small passion project that I created over 10 years ago with an old college buddy of mine. And now we are proud to announce […]

December/January 2021

We receive book after book as entries in our annual Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition. We received hundreds of entries this year in all manner of genres. You can find the winners, finalists, long-listed, and our top “Notable” books in this issue. To everyone who entered, we want to let you all know how […]

October/November 2020

Like travel, reading global allows you to experience other cultures beyond what you learn in history books or on travel shows. Translated fiction delivers new voices we as readers connect to from across the globe. And we have access to these stories thanks to the translators and editors committed to sharing more these stories across […]

August/September 2020

historic indie reads

In This Issue: You will find The Great Historic Roundup as historical fiction authors discuss the importance of historical fiction and how they utilize it in their storytelling. We talk with Marthese Fenech, bestselling author of historical novels set in sixteenth-century Europe, as she discussed her process of writing her historical fiction novel Falcon’s Shadow. […]

June/July 2020

summer indie reading list 2020

In this issue we have a diverse selection of new indie reads to add to your summer reading list. We discuss with Chelsea Bieker, motherhood, abandonment, and cults in her debut novel Godshot. We talk with Sarah Leipciger about her stunning sophomore novel, Coming up for Air. And we discuss last meals with food critic […]

April/May 2020

With the recent news of the Coronavirus outbreaks many people have been in quarantine or self-isolation looking for ways to entertain. Aside from the binge watching and video conference calls, it’s great to see reading come to the forefront. With publishers and other companies offering free e-books and audiobooks, and a surge of readers looking […]

February/March 2020

short stories indie authors

In this issue, we interview indie short story writers, including Melissa Marr, author of Tales of Folk & Fey, Clarissa Gosling, author of A Mixed Bag: a multi-genre collection of short stories, Tara Wine-Queen, author of Tenderness and Troubling Times, Leslie Sullivan (aka Anna McCluskey), author of A Pilsner Colored Ring of Light, Divya Adu, […]

December/January 2020

We receive book after book as entries in our annual Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition. We received hundreds of entries this year in all manner of genres. You can find the winners, finalists, long-listed (new this year), and our top “Notable” books in this issue. To everyone who entered, we want to let you […]

October/November 2019

The average number of translations published every year since 2008 is only 421 new titles. To put that into perspective, major publishing houses publish over 2,000 titles annually. That means we are missing out on thousands of works of fiction every single year that go untranslated. In This Issue: Find great new titles from across […]

August/September 2019

What does it mean to really be fierce? Well, this issue of Shelf Unbound is packed full of what it means to be a fierce female. We have an amazing, truly inspiring interview with Tiffany Scandal on her book NASTY! as well as a roundup of female authors who share their version of what fierce […]