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pH: A Novel

Author: © Nancy Lord Publisher: WestWinds Press® an imprint of Graphic Arts Books® Publication Date: September 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Author website   Excerpt When everyone had gone off to prepare for the night shift or to watch a movie or sleep, Helen settled into a corner […]

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The Dragon Who Didn’t Fly

(Book 1 of the series A Dragon’s Guide to Destiny) Author: C. M. Barrett Publication Date: May 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Author website, Facebook, Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 1 The whisper of raindrops awoke Druid. He groaned and covered his ears with his paws. […]

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Interview with David Brin

I recently had a chat with David Brin about climate change and storytelling as well as where our world is headed. David Brin is a science fiction author, scientist & transparency/internet security expert, public speaker & business/governmental consultant, and blogger/social media influencer. But he’s so much more. To find out […]

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Oink: A Food for Thought Mystery

Author: JL Newton Publisher: IndieBound Publication Date: April 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon, IndieBound, Books, Inc., Berkeley and Book Passages (Corte Madera, California) Social Media: Author website, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter Expanding the Meaning of “Deep Ecology” My novel, Oink. A Food for Thought Mystery, is a sly send up of […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – John Atcheson

Back to the series Updated note: John Atcheson passed away January 6, 2020. Please see Common Dreams for more. John Atcheson, a regular contributor to Common Dreams and Think Progress, and an environmental and political fiction author, wrote one of my favorite environmental novels, A Being Darkly Wise. The novel […]

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Belief

Authors: © H.D. Knightley Publication Date: June 25, 2016 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Website, Facebook, Twitter, Wattpad, Goodreads, Pinterest Back to the Dragonfly Library 2: We Are Undecided (Book Three of The Estelle Series) Mj’s mother, Trudy, and her sisters Lizzy and Sunny, made us a big dinner […]

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Beautiful Giant

Authors: © Margi Prideaux Publisher: Stormbird Press Publication Date: February 2017 Type: Nonfiction Social Media: Website, Facebook, Twitter From behind came a sound, swish, phwom, swish, phwom. My heart fluttered inside my chest. Could it be what I had been hoping for since the first giant gardener’s space? Years ago, […]

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Lotus Blue

Author: © Cat Sparks Publisher/Ordering: Skyhorse Ordering: Amazon Publication Date: March 2017 Type: Fiction Social Media: Facebook, Twitter Marian remembered some things clearly from the time before the Ruin. That the fringe of this battlefield had once housed a research station, built between the wars. White-coats had slept in the […]

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Silvana – the Greening

Author: © Belinda Mellor Publisher/Ordering: Amazon, Author Website Publication Date: February 1, 2016 Type: Fiction – Fiction Social Media: Facebook, Twitter Rain drummed on the terra cotta tiles of the hold-house. Fabiom listened to the rhythm as he went through the ever-growing lists of people who had been forced to […]

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Tales from the Warming

Author: © Lorin R. Robinson Publisher/Ordering: Open Books Publication Date: May 1, 2017 Type: Fiction – Fiction Anthology Social Media: Facebook, Twitter Excerpt from “The Perfect Storm” Sometime during the long night, the rain lessened to a steady drizzle. The wind, which had been from the south, providing cooler air […]

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Clara Hume’s Back to the Garden, Review by Tom Hibbard

ECO-FICTION THE INVISIBLE PARADISE: BACK TO THE GARDEN BY CLARA HUME “There is no immobile absolute, no spiritual ‘beyond’.” -Henri Lefebvre by poet Tom Hibbard, May 3, 2017 The term “eco-fiction” is, like other terms that describe types and categories, one for which a group of people are attempting to […]

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Interview with Donelle Dreese, Cave Walker

Part XVI. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Returning to our “Women Working in Nature and the Arts” interview series, I’m happy to introduce Donelle Dreese. Donelle is an author and Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University.  Her books include Cave Walker (Moon Willow Press), Sophrosyne (Aldrich Press), Deep River […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight–Ali Smith

Back to the series This month we’ll look at Ali Smith, who is not a new author, but whose “Seasonal” quartet I just began reading. Smith is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. See a complete bibliography at Wikipedia. For the purposes of this article, I will focus on […]

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Fly Out of the Darkness, Part 2. Infinite Games

Authors: © Annis Pratt Publisher: Iuniverse Publication Date: May 6, 2012 Type: Fiction – Series Social Media: Author website, LinkedIn, Amazon author page, Facebook, Twitter Note: We’ll be posting the series excerpts one at a time in the next several months. Part IV is being published by Moon Willow Press […]

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Interview with Omar El Akkad, American War

I’m very pleased to welcome Omar El Akkad, author of American War, one of the most anticipated novels of 2017 (coming April 4). Omar was born in Cairo, Egypt and grew up in Doha, Qatar until he moved to Canada with his family. He is an award-winning journalist and author […]

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