I’m taking a newsletter break in January, but see December’s newsletter if you haven’t read it yet. You’ll find extra news, such as book of the month, flashbacks, and extra commentary. Want to support this volunteer website? Dragonfly Pub’s ebook store is open! You can read about, buy, and download […]
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Around the World with “Rewilding our Stories”
Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series I’m so excited to share with our readers some of the book projects the Rewilding our Stories Discord is doing. The Discord community began just over five years ago. Looking back, I wonder if it was Covid that prompted the idea […]
Read MoreIndie Corner – Michelle Schuman
Back to the Indie Corner series It was cool to hear from author Michelle (M.E.) Schuman, whose The Rare Earth series’ part 2, The Catalyst, just came out this fall. Michelle is the award-winning author of The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun and the […]
Read MoreSpotlight – The Storm, Arif Anwar
Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Rebooted for November 2025 At once grounded in history and fantastically imaginative, Arif Anwar’s The Storm (Washington Square Press, 2021) “moves us deftly through time and across borders, beautifully illustrating the strange intersections we call fate, […]
Read MoreIndie Corner – Micah Thorp, Aegolius Creek
Back to the Indie Corner series Micah Thorp is a physician and writer in Portland, Oregon. His first novel, Uncle Joe’s Muse, won a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award and a Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. A sequel, Uncle Joe’s Senpai, was published in 2023. His writing […]
Read MoreP. Finian Reilly, Ice’s End
Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series I’m thrilled to talk with P. Finian Reilly about his new novel Ice’s End. It’s only the second time the world eco-fiction series has traveled to Antarctica—the first being a conversation with Ilija Trojanow about his novel Lamentations of Zeno. About […]
Read MoreIndie Corner – Uplift, Jessica Mann
Jessica Mann’s novel Uplift (2024) is a work of realistic animal fiction, told entirely from the point of view of wild birds, animals, and an ancient tree. The book has won national awards and been featured in Psychology Today and The Nature Conservancy. When her high mountain wilderness is threatened […]
Read MoreEco-Games
Thanks to so many wonderful game suggestions (primarily video games, but not all) from the Rewilding Our Stories community, we have a new eco-gaming section here at Dragonfly. While some games lean toward environmental lessons and strategize ways to reconstruct ecological systems, others beautifully immerse the player into an explorative […]
Read MoreSpotlight – Anh Do, Wolf Girl Series
Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Series Into the Wild (HarperCollins) is the first book in the Wolf Girl series, a thrilling middle-grade trilogy about a young girl, separated from her family, who learns how to survive with only her new canine found family by […]
Read MoreTurning the Tide
Turning the Tide: The Youngest Generation Spotlight Series Children’s bookshelf | YA/teen bookshelf | Book reviews | Spotlights | Resources and teacher links | Games | Films News: In September, Anh Do is our world eco-fiction spotlight author. We talk about his Wolf Girl series for middle-grade readers. In May, […]
Read MoreIndie Corner – Todd Medema
Todd Medema’s How to Surf a Hurricane (August 2025) is a story of hope and adapting to climate change—hidden inside an action-packed heist on the high seas. Inspired by the new genre of solarpunk, it tells the story of Moro, an ex-corporate heir, and a globe-spanning ensemble cast fighting for […]
Read MoreDheepa R. Maturi, 108: An Eco-Thriller
Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book 108: An Eco-Thriller (Girl Friday Productions, June 2025): While working the night shift at a San Francisco news agency, Bayla Jeevan has a shocking out-of-body experience. Her consciousness is transported deep into an Indian forest, where she witnesses a […]
Read MoreInterview with Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water
Originally published July 8, 2014. Rebooted July 17, 2025 into the World Eco-fiction Series. Updated: This novel is now a movie. I want to thank Emmi for this wonderful interview. My first pleasure was reading her book, Memory of Water. The novel takes place in the future after climate change […]
Read MoreIndie Corner – The Working, BrightFlame
About the Book A modern coven must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and find the key to the bright futures we need. Betsy’s a modern-day Witch with an ageless problem: she’s worried about screwing up her coven’s ritual. Again. But the coven has a bigger issue to face—the destruction of their […]
Read MoreMountains Piled Upon Mountains, Edited by Jessica Cory
Click here to return to the series This is a reboot of the world eco-fiction spotlight from November 8, 2019, where we headed for the first time to the USA. Having spent a great amount of time in the Appalachian Mountains as a child (you can read more here), when […]
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