Episode 398 – Multiple Outlets For Storytelling with Denise Baden

Mark interviews Denise Baden about the novel/book version of Murder in the Climate Assembly as well as the various incarnations and adaptions she had created for the stage and television.

Prior to the interview, Mark reads comments from recent episodes, shares a personal update, and a word about this episode’s sponsor.

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During the interview Mark and Denise talk about:

Denise’s varied educational, professional, and personal background which has given her a finger in “every pie”How Denise turned to fiction because it’s her joyThe different formats that a story can take for a creative personDenise’s memoir “Confessions of a Climate Activist in a Business School” and how she adapted it into a novel by fictionalizing some elementsAlso creating a re-adaptation of the story into a stage play “Murder in the Citizens’ Jury”The additional dramatic monolog version of the play that Denise createdThe TV-script version that Denise also wrote based on thisThe videos that Denise has that share these highlightsHow the different mediums inform Denise’s approach to each version of the storyNot feeling good about the traditional publishing offer Denise rec’d for the bookA Kickstarter project that Denise is launching related to this same IPThe struggle with what to do as a reward, and what to do as an add-onHow too much of existing climate fiction is so dystopian in natureThe white-washing that some companies tried to do in partnering Denise’s Green Stories projectThe idea of thrutopian fictionAnd more . . .

After the interview Mark reflects on the choice Denise made to turn down a publishing contract and launch the book leveraging Kickstarter, as well as the genius way she’s taken a single IP and adapted into numerous formats and platforms.

Links of Interest:

Denise Baden’s WebsiteMurder in the Citizens JuryDenise’s Kickstarter for Murder in the Climate AssemblyThe Green Stories ProjectGreen Stories YouTubeDenise/Green Stories on Bluesky: @greenstories.bsky.socialDenise on LinkedInDenise on TwitterDenise on InstagramDenise on FacebookT. Thorn Coyle’s Resistance Matters KickstarterEP 304 – Narrative Transportation with Denise BadenEP 397 – In It For The Creativity and Compassion with Ron Vitale EP 395 – Rants and Reflections From the Road on 2024 Sales SharingForm for Listener Reflections for Episode 400Patreon Article with Zoom Hangout Links (for Episode 400 Listener Reflections)Wide for the Win WIDEStream (YouTube Link)Superstars Writing SeminarsBuy Mark a CoffeePatreon for Stark ReflectionsHow to Access Patreon RSS FeedsMark’s YouTube channelMark’s Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)An Author’s Guide to Working With Bookstores and LibrariesThe Relaxed AuthorBuy eBook DirectBuy Audiobook DirectPublishing Pitfalls for AuthorsAn Author’s Guide to Working with Libraries & BookstoresWide for the WinMark’s Canadian Werewolf BooksThis Time Around (Short Story)A Canadian Werewolf in New YorkStowe Away (Novella)Fear and Longing in Los AngelesFright Nights, Big CityLover’s MoonHex and the CityOnly Monsters in the BuildingThe Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and AutomobilesYippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die HardMerry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

Denise Baden is a Professor of Sustainability at the University of Southampton and a writer. Her eco-themed rom-com ‘Habitat Man’ was published in 2021, followed by ‘The Assassin’ and ‘No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save the Planet’ in 2022. Denise is listed on the Forbes list of Climate Leaders Changing the Film and TV industry and has worked with Bafta on #ClimateCharacters exploring cultural aspects of sustainability. A TV adaptation of her play ‘Murder in the Citizens’ Jury’ was a winner of the 2024 Writing Climate Pitchfest and is under consideration by Hollywood producers. She is currently launching the novel version ‘Murder in the Climate Assembly’ on Kickstarter.

The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0