August/September 2020
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
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
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 […]
June/July 2019
When I was a kid, summer meant books… well, and chore lists. Summers were filled with reading all kinds of books, even math and puzzle books. Every summer we would go to the bookstore weekly to get new books to read—the Babysitters Club, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Ghostwriter, Goblins in the Castle, Among […]
April/May 2019
What is a new beginning? A new year is a new beginning. A new relationship, a new inning in a baseball game, a new book. New beginnings are adventures. For many, not without some angst. Perhaps it is just the awkwardness of meeting a new social group – or – it could be the unbelievable […]
August/September 2018
Our fearless publisher, Margaret L. Brown, passed away on June 4, 2018, after a 10-month battle with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Margaret founded Shelf Media Group in 2010 and become owner and publisher of several digital magazines, including flagship Shelf Unbound and later Middle Shelf, Foreground, and Podster. The staff at Shelf Unbound would like to […]