Shelf Love

Shelf Love ⭐️ Leah Taylor
📚 Indie Bookshop | Signed Books | Special Editions
❤️‍🔥 Founder, Once Upon a Shelf
💘 Find your next favorite read. Leah C.

Taylor is the heart and hustle behind Shelf Love, West Georgia’s first romance-only bookstore. A USA Today bestselling author writing as Dori Pulitano and LC Taylor, Leah has penned over 40 romance novels that deliver everything from dark mafia tension to soul-deep second chances. A former law enforcement officer turned middle school teacher, Leah blends grit with grace in everything she does. She

's a wife, a mom of four, and a proud dog lover—pouring her love of books, community, and happily ever afters into every corner of Shelf Love.

09/05/2026

Books. BBQ. Firefighters. Books. Firefighters. Treats. Firefighters. Blues. Books. Did we mention firefighters? 👀🔥📚

We’re hanging out in Downtown Austell for BBQ, Blues & Brews until 10PM tonight!

Come grab some BBQ, listen to some blues, shop some books, snag a treat… and respectfully appreciate the local scenery. 🚒😏

And BESTIES—come hydrated because it is HOT out here today. 🥵☀️

See you downtown! 📚🔥🍖🎶

Get ready for an unforgettable day filled with great food, live music, and community fun! Join Shelf Love in downtown Au...
09/04/2026

Get ready for an unforgettable day filled with great food, live music, and community fun! Join Shelf Love in downtown Austell this Saturday (9/5) for Books, BBQ, Blues & Brews, where the smoky flavors of delicious barbecue meet the soulful sounds of live blues music and maybe a special blind date with a book or two (or five). Enjoy mouthwatering BBQ from local vendors, refreshing beverages, unique shopping from vendors, and entertainment for the whole family!

🗓️September 5, 2026
📍Jefferson Street, downtown Austell
⏰10:00am-10:00pm

HEAVEN’S GATE by Dr. Sarah Monday brings obsession, betrayal, morally questionable decisions, a serial killer, and enoug...
09/04/2026

HEAVEN’S GATE by Dr. Sarah Monday brings obsession, betrayal, morally questionable decisions, a serial killer, and enough emotional damage to make you wonder why you ever thought romance was supposed to be relaxing.

It’s dark. It’s twisted. It’s spicy. And with GREED at the center of it all, wanting someone is about to become a whole lot more dangerous.

Basically… nobody here is getting into heaven, and neither are we. 🖤

📚 Grab your copy at Shelf Love before we decide we need them all for ourselves.

🔗 Link in photo

09/04/2026

It’s the dark romance girlies you have to worry about. 🖤🔪

We read the trigger warnings like a shopping list.

Stalking? 👀
Morally gray? 🥵
Touch her and die? 💀
Unhinged, obsessive, probably needs therapy? ADD TO CART.

🛍️🔗Shop Tar City

Also, thank you everyone for the birthday wishes and LC Taylor & Dori Pulitano for putting me on blast for my big 4-0🤣

EK IS TURNING 40! 🖤💀🩷If you’ve ever laughed at one of our posts, wondered who keeps encouraging the chaos, or questioned...
09/03/2026

EK IS TURNING 40! 🖤💀🩷

If you’ve ever laughed at one of our posts, wondered who keeps encouraging the chaos, or questioned what exactly is happening over here… there’s a pretty good chance EK is responsible. 😂

She’s our Social Media Chaos Coordinator, and today we’re putting her on blast because she’s officially entering Chapter 40.

Help us show her some birthday love! Drop a HAPPY BIRTHDAY and, because we’re a bookstore and obviously have to make this about books, leave her a book rec in the comments. 📚

Indie authors, YES, you can recommend your own. Please contribute to the destruction of her TBR. 😂

Happy 40th, EK! 🖤💗

09/03/2026

300 years our senior? Fine.
Masked stalker? Hot.
Morally gray? Make him morally BLACK. 🖤
Kidnapping? We’ll hear him out.
Touch her and die? Say less.
Murder? Context matters. 🔪
Monster romance? Smash.
Tentacles? Mind your business.
Milking Minotaurs? BRING IT. 🐮
Red flags? We thought those were bookmarks. 🚩
Burn down the world for her? Romantic.
Possessive, obsessive, completely unhinged? Add to cart.

But Tamlin?

Whoa, whoa, whoa✋🏼

We have f*cking standards.

09/02/2026

At Shelf Love, we believe every task deserves a committee, every decision needs a second opinion, and every minor inconvenience is better with moral support.

One of us could probably handle it alone.

But where’s the fun in that?

Instead, we bring two opinions, three distractions, several unnecessary side conversations, and just enough confidence to make it look intentional.

Are we working? Technically.
Are we making things harder than they need to be? Absolutely.
Are we having a great time? Obviously. 😂📚

Running an indie bookstore means doing a little bit of everything—and occasionally doing all of it at once.

So come see what we’re up to at Shelf Love:

🔥 Browse the shelves
🔥 Discover your next favorite read
🔥 Ask us for recommendations
🔥 Watch us turn “quick question” into a full literary debate
🔥 Support your local indie bookstore

Shelf Love: where the books are carefully curated and the staff meetings happen in the aisles. 📚💀

STALKERS ANONYMOUS IS NOW IN SESSION❌ Restraining order✅ Romantic tension❌ “Why do you know where I live?”✅ “Awww, he ca...
09/01/2026

STALKERS ANONYMOUS IS NOW IN SESSION

❌ Restraining order
✅ Romantic tension

❌ “Why do you know where I live?”
✅ “Awww, he cares.”

❌ Healthy boundaries
✅ HE’S OBSESSED WITH HER

Cole is morally gray, protective, possessive, and definitely NOT stalking.

He’s just… ✨aggressively keeping tabs on her✨.

And when Hailey gets the attention of someone considerably less fun to be stalked by?

Our man said MOVE. I WAS HERE FIRST. 🔪

🚩 Obsessive MMC
🚩 Protective AF
🚩 Morally gray decisions
🚩 Suspense + spice
🚩 Found-family chaos
🚩 Enough red flags to open our own amusement park

Come get Stalkers Anonymous before we’re legally advised to stop recommending it. 🏃‍♀️💨📚

THE -BER MONTHS HAVE ARRIVEDSpooky season is loading, the TBR is feral, and September is bringing WAY too many books we ...
09/01/2026

THE -BER MONTHS HAVE ARRIVED

Spooky season is loading, the TBR is feral, and September is bringing WAY too many books we absolutely need.

🖤 What’s your most anticipated September book release?!

Drop it below 👇
Bonus points if it involves monsters, murder, magic, or questionable decisions. 🔪

Happy -ber months, book besties. Let the seasonal book hoarding begin. 🦇

08/31/2026

Where my dark romance girlies at? 🖤🔪

Because a trigger warning list isn’t a warning…
it’s the damn selling point. 😈📚

🚩 Morally gray? Add to cart.
🚩 Masked man? Immediately yes.
🚩 Touch her and die? Say less.
🚩 Trigger warnings longer than the synopsis? OH, WE’RE SAT.

Some people read the warnings and put the book back.
We read them like a fu***ng checklist. 💅🏻🖤

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