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Interview with Nancy Lord

Part XV. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Nancy Lord, who lives in Homer, Alaska, is passionate about place, history, and the natural environment.  From her many years of commercial salmon fishing and, later, work as a naturalist and historian on adventure cruise ships, she’s explored in both fiction […]

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Interview with James Bradley, Author of Clade and The Silent Invasion

I’m happy to welcome James Bradley, Australian novelist and critic. James Bradley is an Australian novelist and critic.  His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field , The Resurrectionistand Clade, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and The Penguin Book of the Ocean, as well as The Change Trilogy for young adults, the first […]

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The Galaxy Series

Author: © Aithal Publication Date: Part I. November 25, 2015. Part II. January 20, 2017 Type: Fiction – Series Ordering: Author site Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon, YouTube Back to the Dragonfly Library Note, there are two excerpts below from the first two books in the series. Part I. […]

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The End of the Beginning

Author: © Zachary Eichholz Publication Date: July 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Author site Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram CHAPTER 22: Cooperation Not Annihilation The Pentagon, Virginia Monday, April 5, 2027        “Madam. Secretary,” said Colonel Mapfeka, “thank you for allowing us the opportunity to brief you today. It is […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Brian Burt

Back to the series When I first talked with author Brian Burt a couple years ago, we sat in on a SFF World panel about climate change in fiction, and I was surprised at the things we had in common: we both hail from Indiana (go Hoosiers!), still dream of […]

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Irrevocable Acts

Author: © Jonni Hyde Publication Date: June 22, 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Author site Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 2 In the living room, Gracie paraded her stuffed animals across the coffee table, while in the adjacent dining room, Kate set out plates and silverware. Anna […]

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Interview with Annis Pratt, Infinite Games

Part XIV. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Annis Pratt’s novels are full of passion for the natural world and enthusiasm for the details of everyday life. Her invented worlds are more realistic than fantastic, her fiction speculative about ways to live in harmony with each other and with […]

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The Adventures of The Sizzling Six: The Case of the Missing Piping Plovers

Author: © Claire Datnow Series: Adventures of the Sizzling Six (Book 8) Publisher: MediaMint Publication Date: July 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Twitter, Amazon author page, Facebook, Goodreads, Pinterest, Eco-fiction, Enslow, YouTube, Instagram Excerpt: Middle Grade 42,317 words Back to the Dragonfly Library Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus): Named […]

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Life Plus 2 Meters, Volume 1 – “The Bore Is Coming”

Author of Anthology: David Zetland, et al.; author of “The Bore is Coming” © Sarah Dixon Publication Date: December 20, 2017 Note: Submissions for Life Plus 2 Meters, Volume 2 are open until September 15, 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Click here for ordering via Amazon or a free PDF Social […]

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Sally St. Johns

Author: © Denise Heinze Publication Date: May 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon, BookLocker Social Media: Author website, Twitter, Amazon author page, Facebook, Goodreads, LinkedIn   This title was up for six months only. Please view the author links above for more on the book.

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Jo Marshall

Back to the series It’s hard to believe that we’re up to our tenth author spotlight in this series, but here we are, with an introduction to Jo Marshall, who spent seven years as a volunteer literacy tutor for elementary school students. In the D.C. area, from 1999 to 2006, […]

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Deena Metzger’s A Rain of Nightbirds, Review by Mary Fillmore

Review of A Rain of Night Birds, by Deena Metzger Author: Mary Fillmore To read Deena Metzger’s compelling novel A Rain of Night Birds is to enter the consciousness of two people who take climate chaos and its consequences in deadly earnest.  Both are professional climatologists who know the numbers, […]

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Watermelon Snow

Author: © William A. Liggett Publisher: Sandra Jonas Publishing Publication Date: June 6, 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Author website, Twitter, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library EXCERPT The thick layers of ice groaned and let out a deafening crack. Professor Kate Landry jumped, unnerved by the sounds, […]

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Reckoning – Journal of Environmental Justice Fiction

Authors:  Emily Houk, Goldie Locks, Benjamin Parzybok, Christopher Brown, James Treat Publisher: © Reckoning Press; ebook distributed by Weightless Books Publication Date: July 2017 Type: Poetry, Fiction, Art Social Media: Twitter, Facebook Back to the Dragonfly Library Excerpts from Reckoning 1 The Plague Winter by Emily Houk The year the plague […]

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Reckoning – New Journal of Environmental Justice Writing

Lake Orion, MI (July 2017) – Reckoning Press, a new, non-profit independent press, has released the first issue of Reckoning, an annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice. The journal is edited by Michael J. DeLuca, fresh from a stint in 2016 as guest editor of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud […]

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