Readers! Looking for awesome books? A new fantasy to escape into? Something to sweep you off your feet?
Are you hungry for new voices and ideas? Or the comfort of your favorite tropes in a different recipe? Have you yet to find the writers who truly speak to you? Let us help you satisfy your book cravings for any mix of genres you like.
The Crowded Shelf is an exciting new indie author cooperative bringing a traveling bookstore to a convention near you! We’ve got more than a dozen indie authors and publishers bringing you sci-fi, fantasy, horror, thrillers, and even a bit of romance — little something for everyone. Get the latest from your new and soon-to-be favorites waiting for you to discover them!
Find it on the Crowded Shelf.
Take a peek above at our wonderful authors as we fill out the site and stay tuned for our upcoming announcements regarding new authors and show dates!
Authors! Want to be on the Shelf? Take a look.
Indie Doesn’t Mean Alone
How often have you gone to a show, set up your table crammed in a corner back end of nowhere at a con, and suffered through the sweaty turgid air having to pee with no relief in sight? How many times have you lingered there just two more minutes, only to sprint to the panel you were supposed to be on five minutes ago all flustered and flushed, leaving only a sign to greet your next fan? Seen the wary look in people’s eyes passing by, tired of pitch after pitch in the alley, when you just want to delight them with a story? Or maybe you’re new, lost and drowning in the murky darkwater of publishing?
We’ve all been there, and let’s be honest: IT SUCKS!
Now, imagine a different way it could be. Imagine instead your reader walking into a traveling bookstore and seeing your novels on a shelf next to your friends’ and favorites’. Where they’re delighted they get to meet you in person sans desperation. Imagine your books still making their way to the hands of your newest fan while you’re off charming a panel audience, having a hot meal, relieving your insistent bladder, or just taking five minutes for yourself.
And that’s just the start…