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Yep, I wrote Strange Animals.
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Something in the Woods Loves You
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2024
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7 editions
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Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
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2020
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6 editions
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Strange Animals
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2026
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4 editions
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Love Notes From The Hollow Tree
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2022
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Leaf Litter
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2023
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2 editions
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The Haunted Forest Trilogy
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Inklings: 300 Starts, Plots, and Challenges to Inspire your Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Stories
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100 Prompts for Science Fiction Writers
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Dandelions: The Insistent Garden
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Dandelions: The Insistent Garden
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Early Praise for Strange Animals
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I can't wait to share my new novel with you!
“I cannot express how much this book scratched an itch I didn’t know I had. The deep wonder and curiosity about nature coupled with the terror of our own insignificance strummed a familiar chord within me, and reading about these singular creatures and Green’s journey confronting them inspir Read more of this blog post »
I can't wait to share my new novel with you!
“I cannot express how much this book scratched an itch I didn’t know I had. The deep wonder and curiosity about nature coupled with the terror of our own insignificance strummed a familiar chord within me, and reading about these singular creatures and Green’s journey confronting them inspir Read more of this blog post »
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"I can't quite decide what to say about this book, because I can't quite explain why it resonated with me so much. But I was immediately sucked in and loved every word. My only critique is that the ending felt a bit rushed - I definitely wanted this b"
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"*trigger warning*
This is a remarkable book, full of love, clarity, wisdom, and hope. While it is about a dark subject, the authors journey back from *suicidal despair*, it could not be stronger nor more hopeful and helpful. Each chapter is entitled s" Read more of this review » |
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"After a near death experience (or maybe it was a death?) with a bus, Green finds himself in possession of an acorn, the urge to find himself in nature, and on a journey to a remote campsite in the Appalachian Mountains. Before even reaching the camps"
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"My absolute favorite kind of books are about nature, but slightly off. This book is about nature that's a bit more than slightly off, but in such a cool way. I loved the creativity of the cryptids in this book and the idea of cryptonaturalism, or the"
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| I'm not a comedy writer, but I am a writer who sometimes shoots for comedy and I found this to be a fun and helpful read. If you want to write comedy, this book is for you. If you're a fan of comedy interested in a thoughtful exploration of the mecha ...more | |
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Grandma Joy and Me: A Journey of Healing, One National Park at a Time
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“It’s easy to look at the contours of a forest and feel a bone deep love for nature. It’s less easy to remember that the contours of your own body represent the exact same nature. The pathways of your mind. Your dreams, dark and strange as sprouts curling beneath a flat rock. Your regret, bitter as the citrus rot of old cut grass. It’s the same as the nature you make time to love. That you practice loving. The forest. The meadow. The sweeping arm of a galaxy. You are as natural as any postcard landscape and deserve the same love.”
― Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
― Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
“There's an endless autumn in me,
scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke.”
― Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke.”
― Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
“You won't see most of this planet.
Under each rock.
Beneath the water.
Secrets of air and soil.
Can you feel the joy behind this limitation?
That there is always a new thing to discover,
a new way to grow,
is one of the sweetest parts of living,
and it's free and inexhaustable.”
― Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
Under each rock.
Beneath the water.
Secrets of air and soil.
Can you feel the joy behind this limitation?
That there is always a new thing to discover,
a new way to grow,
is one of the sweetest parts of living,
and it's free and inexhaustable.”
― Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
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“Something had been born, unexpected, the salt of the sea in its lungs. It screamed and screamed and it lived.”
― The Unmothers
― The Unmothers
“The strangest human we know visits a royal pan-dimensional manifestation of collective history-spanning crow-intelligence while battling an incursion from beyond reality... and he asks us for simplicity.”
― Strange Animals
― Strange Animals
“How humbling is nature? How many lives could you spend studying a single tree and still feel yourself a neophyte in the school of its character? What a gift it is to know that the ship of our curiosity will never run aground in the seas of Earth's mysteries.”
― Strange Animals
― Strange Animals