The latest news, updates and comments from Shelfstealers en-us http://www.shelfstealers.com/rss.xml Shelfstealers Website web@tomatedesign.com (Tomate Diseño) ...for really well-written speculative short stories and flash fiction about the future of publishing. No essays, please. From 500 to 5000 words. What does the future hold for writers, for publishers, for readers? When we have enough quality stories (in our opinion), we'll publish a collection. We won't pay for each story, but the authors of the stories we accept will share equally in the royalties. We doubt you'll get rich, but if you care about what's happening in publishing these days, let your creative mind imagine what might happen in the future. http://www.shelfstealers.com/news-and-events.php?ns=10 Thu, 9 May 2013 07:41:07 UTC In Arlington, VA, at a bookstore made even more famous by a visit from President Obama, and one of the few remaining proprietor-owned and managed book stores in Northern Virginia. Ellen is honored to have the opportunity to read there, and we will be honored to see you there especially since the quality of the reading and setting for the reading is paramount for this event. April 1 at 7:00 p.m. http://www.shelfstealers.com/news-and-events.php?ns=9 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:53:08 UTC In Arlington, VA, at a bookstore made even more famous by a visit from President Obama, and one of the few remaining proprietor-owned and managed book stores in Northern Virginia. Ellen is honored to have the opportunity to read there, and we will be honored to see you there especially since the quality of the reading and setting for the reading is paramount for this event. April 1 at 7:00 p.m. http://www.shelfstealers.com/news-and-events.php?ns=9 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:51:09 UTC In Arlington, VA, at a bookstore made even more famous by a visit from President Obama, and one of the few remaining proprietor-owned and managed book stores in Northern Virginia. Ellen is honored to have the opportunity to read there, and we will be honored to see you there especially since the quality of the reading and setting for the reading is paramount for this event. April 1 at 7:00 p.m. http://www.shelfstealers.com/news-and-events.php?ns=9 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:29:03 UTC Meet Leslie Hall Pinder in Winnipeg, Manitoba TODAY! at McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park in the Travel Alcove, , Winnipeg, Manitoba on Tuesday 2nd October 2012. Visit the website for more details. http://www.**COMPANYWEBSITE**/news-and-events.php?ev=4 Tue, 2 Oct 2012 10:02:21 UTC Kerry Dunn will be reading and signing JOE PEACE at the Barnes and Noble on Brodie Lane in Austin - Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 4pm. If you're going to be anywhere near Austin two days after Thanksgiving, be sure to go to support Kerry. http://www.shelfstealers.com/news-and-events.php?ns=8 Tue, 2 Oct 2012 06:10:21 UTC Kerry's personality shines through in this blog interview at Madame Perry's Salon. Worth a read. http://madameperryssalon.blogspot.mx/2012/09/kerry-dunn-delivers-hip-noir-style-with.html http://www.shelfstealers.com/news-and-events.php?ns=7 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:00:55 UTC http://www.shelfstealers.com/news-and-events.php?ns=8 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:21:26 UTC Ellen Herbert Reads from FALLING WOMEN and Other Stories at Writer's Center, Bethesda, Maryland on Sunday 9th December 2012. Visit the website for more details. http://www.**COMPANYWEBSITE**/news-and-events.php?ev=3 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:13:22 UTC "Can a Writer Have Friends?" A workshop by our own Leslie Hall Pinder at Conference Hotel, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico on Saturday 16th February 2013. Visit the website for more details. http://www.**COMPANYWEBSITE**/news-and-events.php?ev=2 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:52:43 UTC Since Leslie's latest novel received its starred review, sales of her first, UNDER THE HOUSE, have benefited, too, proving the conventional wisdom that productive and talented authors gain fans the more they write and publish. Congratulations, Leslie. http://www.http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9834900-1-2 http://www.shelfstealers.com/news-story?ns=6_158201212955 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:09:55 -0500 Congratulations to Arleen Wolf, the winner of our Shelfcharmers writing contest for July, 2012. You can read her winning entry and enter this month's contest at the same time. http://www.shelfstealers.com/contests-mwc/winners http://www.shelfstealers.com/news-story?ns=4_882012115243 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:52:43 -0500 Shelfstealers is thrilled to welcome Father Marc Powell as our first, confirmed volunteer to our Clear Eye Books program. He'll be recording the audio book for JOE PEACE by Kerry Dunn. Father Marc is a Catholic priest/actor/writer from Seattle, WA, who adapts novels and short stories into stage and radio plays. His most recent stage adaptation of author Ron Hansen's New York Times bestselling novel 'Atticus' premiered in 2011 at the Blue Heron Arts Center on Vashon Island, WA. His one-act stage adaptations of bestselling author Susan Vreeland's short stories 'The Cure' and 'Uncommon Clay' also premiered at the Blue Heron. He has acted in numerous roles in stage productions throughout Washington state and California, including in Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' as Don Jon, in Jean Anouilh's 'Antigone' as the Choragus, and in Daniel Sullivan's 'Inspecting Carol' as Walter. He is currently in pre-production on two radio play adaptations by California crime-noir author Simon Wood and Alaskan author Mary-Beth Holleman. He is pastor of a small 200-family parish on Vashon Island, about half an hour by boat from downtown Seattle. Before ordination, he worked as a newspaper reporter for 'The News Tribune' in Tacoma, WA. JOE PEACE is Fr. Marc's first audio book performance for Shelfstealers, but we hope he'll be interested in volunteering his time - and his amazing reading and acting skills - to future projects. Through the kindness of people like Fr. Marc, Shelfstealers is able to donate audio books by our talented authors to organizations throughout the world who serve people with visual disabilities. http://www.shelfstealers.com/ebook-shop http://www.shelfstealers.com/news-story?ns=3_882012121635 Wed, 8 Aug 2012 12:16:35 -0500 See what you think about JOE PEACE by Kerry Dunn (new-noir crime) FALLING WOMEN and Other Stories by Ellen Herbert (award-winning short stories) THE PERENNIAL FRESHMAN by George S. Whiteman (a coming-of-age memoir) UNDER THE HOUSE by Leslie Hall Pinder (literary family saga), all available to buy from major online outlets and direct from Shelfstealers.com http://www.shelfstealers.com/ebook-shop http://www.shelfstealers.com/news-story?ns=2_882012121518 Wed, 8 Aug 2012 12:15:18 -0500 Shelfstealers is honored to be one of the lead sponsors for the 2012 San Miguel Writers' Conference. We believe talented authors deserve the blessing of a legitimate publisher, one that doesn’t charge fees, offers a 50/50 split, helps authors to make their projects the best they can be, and markets their books so that they have a chance at finding their audiences. On the ‘eve’ of releasing our first four books at the conference on February 16, we are confident these books are good books. They might even be great books. Certainly, the preliminary reviews and blurbs from Margaret Atwood, Publishers Weekly, Alan Cheuse, Don McLean and others bolster our faith in our choices. On Saturday, February 18, at breakfast, Leslie Hall Pinder read from UNDER THE HOUSE and BRING ME ONE OF EVERYTHING, both literary novels. Margaret Atwood says Leslie is “a writer of great talent and sensitivity.” We're sure you'll agree. Also on the Saturday, George S. Whiteman read from the first of his three-part Jesters' Court series, THE PERENNIAL FRESHMAN, a coming-of-age memoir that will make you laugh. We certainly did. Don McLean, singer/songwriter of 'American Pie' fame says, “...George's writing is as creative and scintillating as the rest of his talents and personality.” At breakfast on Sunday, February 19, Ellen Herbert read from her collection of award-winning stories, FALLING WOMEN and Other Stories. Alan Cheuse of NPR's 'All Things Considered' says, “...By turns, appealing, worrisome, full of sighs, full of cheer, these stories remain always true to life.” Also on the Sunday, Kerry Dunn (no relation, although I'd adopt him in a minute) read from his noir crime novel, JOE PEACE, a semi-finalist in the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, and about which Publishers Weekly says, “...an exciting gang story and a heartbreaking tale of relationships.” We gave away print versions of each book, and T-shirts you might even wear! With over 3 million new books hitting the market in 2011, over 80,000 publishing companies in the US alone, and Goldman Sachs saying that no one should invest in the publishing business right now because the ground is shifting too rapidly, the question, “Is a great book enough?” weighs heavily on my mind as the Chief Thief/CEO of Shelfstealers. But it weighs on my heart, too. It weighs on my heart because I feel a moral obligation to the authors who have entrusted us with their work. Their talent humbles me. I have fallen in love with them and their books. We hope you will, too. http://www.shelfstealers.com/news-story?ns=1_882012121236 Wed, 8 Aug 2012 12:12:36 -0500