Shelley Gilbert, Author, Artist, award-winning and well-reviewed, creates and publishes unique and original fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. Swimming Naked with Jellyfish is the coming of age story of a girl who hates semicolons, loves extremes and lives her life exposed.
“SWIMMING NAKED WITH JELLYFISH,” 2008, award-winning, well-reviewed debut novel. Her autobiographical novel won the international 2009 Eric Hoffer Award-Montaigne Medal Finalist Award for Thought Provoking Books and for Excellence in Independent Publishing. She is currently pitching her novel to film industry principals to make a movie from her book and writing the sequel. Amazon.
“…wonderfully vivid…straightforward…compelling…witty…page turner.” Little, Brown and Company (Michael Pietsch recommended)
“…wonderful writer…brave, intelligent…even dazzling.” Benjamin Cheever
“Shelley Gilbert has written an autobiographical novel. She has a fresh new voice, at times edgy, at times confiding…seductive, but always confident…as a reader you feel you are in good hands. The emotional range of Ms. Gilbert’s novel is very broad–intense childhood anger, adolescent insecurity, passion, grief and rebellion, pride. It is not a serene book. The winds of feeling start howling in the first chapter and hardly subside. But the narrator’s voice can control the passion, too–becomes stronger, in fact, as the temperature rises. It is a full-fledged, powerful novel, a deadly serious account of one woman’s effort to discover and maintain her identity, her sense of self and self-worth, despite an upsetting childhood and an adolescence ending in tragedy.” James H. Case, Dean (Retired), SUNY Empire State College, NY
“The best piece of writing on orgasm I have ever in my life read. It’s hard to write a great sex scene. It was raw, quirky, individual, original, impossible to forget, and contains the best description of the experience of having an orgasm.” Susan Grossman, Editor
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