by brenda | Jul 7, 2018 | About Writing, Global Warming, Reading Recommendations
Every once in a while, a book’s ideas and presentation will wake me from sound sleep and make me fumble out of bed and grab coffee at an odd hour. This does not happen often anymore; as a writer I am often ever-so-slightly distanced by being able to see the...
by brenda | Feb 10, 2018 | About Writing, Backing Into Eden, Interviews, News, Publications, Reading Recommendations
I’m really excited to share some news. If you read my newsletter, you heard this story. If you don’t, and you want new stories about once a month, you can sign up here. Here’s my news…..I finished my first-ever work as a fiction editor. This project, the...
by brenda | Jul 8, 2017 | Reading Recommendations
I just stayed up entirely too late reading a delightful new novel by Theodora Goss, The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter. It’s a lovely fantasy tale that begins with Mary Jekyll, the daughter of the famous Jekyll from the story of Jekyll and Hyde....
by brenda | Jun 10, 2017 | Reading Recommendations
Here is my interview with fellow author Brian Burt, who also writes climate fiction. I enjoyed meeting Brian online and working with him to exchange interview. I just finished Aquarius Rising. I really enjoyed the book, so I’ll start with thanking you for giving me a...
by brenda | Jun 1, 2017 | Global Warming, Politics, Reading Recommendations
I finished reading 2140 the day that the United States announced it would pull out of the Paris agreement on Climate Change. I believe today may go down in history as the day we lost global political power and destroyed the global good will of other nations towards...
by brenda | May 9, 2017 | Futurist Posts, Reading Recommendations
Jane Mayer’s Dark Money uses our recent political past to illuminate the off-kilter present. Reading it made made me very angry. While our country has never been perfect, fair, or completely free of the influence of the rich, the events described in this book...