Click here to return to the series Over the summer, I spotlighted author Marian Womack’s new collection of short stories, Lost Objects. These stories explore place and landscape at different stages of decay, positioning them as fighting grounds for death and renewal. From dystopian Andalusia to Scotland or the Norfolk […]
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In Search of Staria
Author: © Peagum Coleman Publication Date: March 2018 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 8 Victoria Snow’s Flat, Bristol Wednesday 22nd August 5.00 p.m. The Old Man awoke, instantly aware that something was about to happen. He sniffed the air and recognised a familiar scent. He […]
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Author: © Bev Prescott Publication Date: September 11, 2018 Publisher: Bywater Books Type: Fiction Ordering: Bywater Books, Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Website Chapter 7, Scene 1 THE SOLDIER TORE EVE FROM SHARON’S GRASP. “No!” Sharon strained to hear the words her wife mouthed, I love you. Her own […]
Read MoreJeff VanderMeer Thoughts on Writing
How to write great fiction without being didactic, while under stress, while living a full life? How to write in your head and find where you wanted your writing to go while doing other things than writing? How to relay environmental subjects, even big ones like global warming, in your […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreSally 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.
Read MoreOink: 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 […]
Read MoreDubito, Ergo Sum
Author: © P. Gordon Judge Publication Date: July 24, 2016 Type: Trilogy Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Amazon Author Page Back to the Dragonfly Library “Boring is good” Leon and I were nervously awaiting a video-link with the Lowell group. He was fiddling with some of his favorite nerd-ish gaming […]
Read MoreCold Blood, Hot Sea
Author: © Charlene D’Avanzo Publisher: Torrey House Press Publication Date: June 2016 Ordering Information: IndieBound Social Media: Author blog, Facebook, Contact, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library Sleuths will have to figure out who done it, but the real crime is the backdrop here: the endless heating of a fragile […]
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