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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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