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Do we have other ecofiction authors in this group?
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Ken wrote: "Hi Anne !Thank you for your gracious offer! Please send me your contact infomration and I will send you a copy in a jiffy!
My e-mail address is ken@feasibleplanet.com
Ken :)"
I wrote you my email address but have not yet heard from you. Please let me know either way If you received it. Meanwhile I am reading book I of Percipience and enjoying it very much. Will write a review when done!
I'm a new member of the group. I think my fiction falls under the category of ecofiction, though it's classified as dystopian, speculative, or science fiction. I'm publishing a series titled Tales From A Warming Planet, with climate change at the driving force behind the narrative. My first story, a novelette titled The Mother Earth Insurgency, is available now on Amazon. The second story is a novel titled Carbon Run. I'm in the midst of a
Goodreads Giveaway
for the novel, which comes out October 21. Two more novels are in the pipeline, as well as a collection of shorts. Whew!
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Clare wrote: "I checked out the giveaway J. G. and it is only available in the US. I know publishers can be fussy about such situations, but if it was open to Ireland another time, I could enter."Unfortunately, because I'm responsible for shipping, the potential for shipping books overseas was cost prohibitive. However, I'd be happy to send you an electronic version of the book's ARC. It's essentially the same ebook file that will be available when the book goes on sale. If you're interested, send me an email at fyddeye.joe@gmail.com and I'll send you a link. Thanks!
I am almost finished with my 2nd EcoFiction Novel. How do I present it to our group? Is this the place to do it? If not here, then where? I don't want to break any rules or norms? Please send advice & suggestions dealing with the proper way to do this.
James Kraus
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Hello,I have just published my book, "ECO - Guardian of Nature" on Amazon as a Paper Back Book & a Kindle eBook.
Subtitle:
Can A Woman With Special Powers Save Earth From Global Warming?
Back Cover Blurb:
Events in History enabled people to acquire an ability to destroy their life support system - Earth.
Mystical beings empower a woman, called ECO, with special powers to fight these threats and to save Earth from human caused Global Warming.
ECO can accept or reject these powers and the challenges and dangers of an Earth saving quest. A quest she does not seek or want. But she loves Earth and its people.
The destiny of both is in her hands.
You can read the first few chapters on my Amazon Paper Book site or my Amazon Kindle eBook site.
To get to my Amazon paper book please type in, eco can a woman with special powers save earth from global warming, to get to my Kindle eBook, please type in eco.
James Kraus
Hello All! Hope the fall is treating you well. My publishing company has a Call for Submissions for visionary ecofiction - it is a fundraising anthology for hurricane relief. Please share! https://www.facebook.com/aseiarts.lig...
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I don't use twitter either.
Clare wrote: "Do they have a non facebook page for those of us who do not go to facebook? I don't use twitter either."
Try this link: https://www.facebook.com/aseiarts.light.vibe/
It's on Facebook, but doesn't require a login. You'll be prompted to join, though.
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Hi! This is the text of it. I will make a new link on the website when back at my computer (am on iPhone now...). Thanks!—
Make your writing count and help with hurricane relief! Publisher ASEI Arts is pleased to share this #callforsubmissions and accept your work for the first annual eco-fiction visionaries anthology. All profit from the publication will go to hurricane relief in and rebuilding efforts; donations will be channeled through #HabitatforHumanity, specifically the Habitat Hammers Back initiative. ASEI Arts will contribute editing, designing, publication, distribution and marketing for the eco-fiction anthology. Your writing is your contribution to the relief effort and is accepted with thanks.
Please submit your visionary eco-fiction writing, in poetry, short fiction, personal letter or novel excerpt form, with up to 3 (three) submissions per person of a maximum 5,000 (five thousand) words per piece or excerpt. Three chapters that total 15,000 words is acceptable. There is no fee to enter and there is no financial compensation for publication.
This year's theme is: RELIEF. Interpret this as you wish, as long as the ending of your submitted writing leaves the reader with a visionary and expansive sense of possibility in the natural and human-built world.
Submission does not guarantee publication and ASEI Arts reserves the right to select pieces for publication based on interest. We are particularly interested in the intersection of spirit and science. Assume a multi-faith audience will be reading your work so please write and revise to suit this readership. Previously published work (including blogged and self-published writing) may be submitted if you currently hold the electronic and print publication rights. ASEI Arts will hold worldwide electronic and print rights upon publication in the anthology and excerpts may be reprinted, recirculated or published by a new publisher with prior written agreement.
Please email questions and submissions to admin@aseiarts.com with "eco visionary anthology" in the subject heading along with your last name and the name(s) of your work. Please copy the full text of your submissions into the body of the email; attachments may not make it past our filters and will be disregarded if received.
We will accept (email only) submissions until December 21, 2017. Final selections will be announced in February 2018. Publication is anticipated on or about March 21, 2018. Ebook and print versions of the anthology will be available for worldwide distribution through Ingram. Contributors who are selected for publication will receive one print copy free of charge. We are running this as a 100% volunteer effort so please bear that in mind when you communicate - we will make every effort to reply in a timely fashion.
Send us your best visionary eco-fiction! We look forward to reading your inspiring words.
-ASEI Arts, a division of Light Vibe LLC, www.aseiarts.com
Here is the shareable link to the visionary ecofiction Call for Submissions, that does not require Facebook - thanks in advance for sharing! https://www.aseiarts.com/single-post/...
Hi all! I haven't been commenting lately because I have been launching the last volume of my Infinite Games Eco-Fiction series, The Battle for the Black Fen. For hope in these frightening environmental times, here's a bit from my press release,
HOPE IN A TIME OF CLIMATE ARMAGEDDON
We are out of our minds with worry that climate warming will eliminate not only whole shorelines and species of plants, insects, birds, animals, and reptiles but human life itself. We human beings, deluded that we can bend the natural world to gratify our every whim, have become global predators and planetary nemeses. This realization is so hard to bear that many deny scientific reality, while others, paralyzed with dread of impending climate doom, take no action whatsoever.
Enter Eco-Fiction. There are new genres of Cli-Fi and Solar Punk in the science fiction mode, with characters who adapt to climate warming and build new communities; traditional novels with plots based on environmental conflict; and Arcadian descriptions of invented or historical communities in harmony with nature.
(the whole Press Release is http://bit.ly/2z3cjol)
Please give us a Goodreads link so I can possible get and review your book.
Dear Anne, I am not sure what a Goodreads link is but The Battle for the Black Fen is in a Goodreads giveaway program and can be purchased at Amazon.com. There is a link for that on the upper right hand corner of www.annispratt.com
Annis wrote: "Dear Anne, I am not sure what a Goodreads link is but The Battle for the Black Fen is in a Goodreads giveaway program and can be purchased at Amazon.com. There is a link for that on the upper right..."I inserted this link by clicking in the "add book/author" to the right of center above the comment/reply text box and typing in the name of your book.
. Clicking on the picture then links into the Goodreads description of the book. For some reason, I couldn't link to your website. Good luck with your eco-fiction book though it sounds too warlike for my taste.
I have written the "Percipience" eco-fiction book series. There are four books in the series with a fifth one coming out in the first half of 2018. Interwoven in the story are the basic ideas behind sustainability and the issues that we have today. The first book, 2022, is permafree in electronic format.
2022
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Time LostIf you want to skip the fiction part, I have just released the non-fiction book, "Feasible Planet - A guide to living more sustainabilty" This book asks the question "Are we doing enough?" and covers the areas of consumption, pollution, social interactions, economics, politics, entitlement, and dissociation.
Feasible Planet - A guide to more sustainable living
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I have put 2022 on my currently reading list. Not that long away now, is it?
Anne wrote: "Annis wrote: "Dear Anne, I am not sure what a Goodreads link is but The Battle for the Black Fen is in a Goodreads giveaway program and can be purchased at Amazon.com. There is a link for that on t..."Actually, it is critical of the "finite games" by which somebody wins and somebody loses; proposing the "infinite games" where everybody wins. I had a hard time writing the battle scenes so they are far from as violent as much of that kind of writing and come only at the end of adventures in a glorious setting of marshes and wetlands.
Just to let you know that there is a Goodreads Giveaway on my The Battle of the Black Fen. Just go to http://bit.ly/2hs8PoW
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Hello everyone!I'm new in this group - and on Goodreads. Still trying to figure it all out!
I am writing a series of short stories about Europe in the future where climate change, pollution, resource depletion has taken its toll. But I am trying to keep the stories hopeful. So far I have selfpublished 4 short stories in that series (my plan is to write one a month).
In addition I have gathered a group of authors from around the world to commemorate the work done by the Brundtland Commission 30 years ago. We have looked 30 years into the future and written a short story each. The anthology will be out beginning of December.
Looking forward to following these discussion!
Tanja wrote: "Hello everyone!I'm new in this group - and on Goodreads. Still trying to figure it all out!
I am writing a series of short stories about Europe in the future where climate change, pollution, res..."
Cool! Where are the four shorts available for purchase/download?
Hi J.G.I started by using Amazon KDP Select. So now they are there until the 90 days are over :-) My latest short story I have put on Amazon as well as other platforms via Draft2Digital.
Links if you want to have a look:
https://www.books2read.com/u/3k02dG
https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B071WC1669
Good morning all - It has been a few moons since I've checked in, it seems. I started a new job (working for the city government in NYC) and returned from a big art show in Europe... getting the visionary ecology anthology ready for publication now... still adjusting to the new job for the most part! I've been remiss in keeping up with the updates here but am happy to jump back in.
Hope you are all well and keep writing!
:-)
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Well done on your job.
Do look around the forum and see if you would like to join any threads, or feel free to launch one of your own.
When your book is ready, you can mention it here or in Green Group Authors thread. Some of us may oblige you with a review.
My novel Ten Directions begins from the point of view of the CEO of one of the last multinational corporations who has been exiled to the moon by an ecological revolution. Most science fiction presents a vision of the future where either technology has produced a utopia or an apocalypse. Ten Directions, the first book in a trilogy, looks into a world where humanity is surviving by changing politically, economically and culturally instead but dealing with the fall out from our current ecological overshoot. A new powerful Alien technology arrives - will the characters be able to evolve spiritually in time to stop age old mistakes from being made again. My author website is samuelwinburn.net if you are interested in finding out more.
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Quite a lot of people whom I'd like to exile to the Moon.
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Many of that group's posts are just ads for the latest free or reduced price book, but there are some more constructive topics. I've asked about book trailers and paying for Amazon ads.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Just a couple of ideas that I am trying this fall that may be of interest to other authors.1. I have a high school marketing intern for 20 hrs per week who will be learning online marketing skills while assisting me in trying to reach her demographic with my YA climate change novel.
2. I have another high School students creating a series of videos on climate related subjects.
My challenge of course is how best to direct and inspire them. Any thoughts on getting the videos out there would be appreciated.
Ned Tillman, author of The Big Melt
www.SavingThePlaces.com
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Videos - put them on YouTube. There are also another few platforms like Vimeo but all the website / blog templates are now built to import and work with YouTube.
Set up your own channel and keep the quality consistent. Also, 16 - 20 minutes is about the limit of time anyone will spend watching a video from anyone not famous. Brevity is better. 2 - 5 minutes to start with will get you more views. This is also better for younger people to work on as they will see a quick result for less editing.
On YouTube you can link your videos into lists so you can link all the climate ones, link all the plastic ones etc. which means they will be suggested as relevant if people watch one.
I only put films on YouTube this summer, after the college assignment process had ended, so I am still learning.
You can advertise the videos as you post them, on places like Linked In and whatever social sites the young people use themselves. And you can tell people in person. Someone who knows you or the students is far more likely to look at your films than someone who doesn't know you.
Also, look around now and see if there are any short film award contests that you could conceivably enter. Including high school age contests for the students.
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These are free music clips for you to use. Of course, I only learned about this after I'd made my films.
Otherwise, you need to be careful to use music with permission, with Creative Commons attribution, with a licence and so on - though much is available free provided you credit the artist.
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We're all going to have to use video more to get our message across to the wider world.
I will be posting a series of videos this fall on the Facebook page: Ned Tillman - Saving the Places. Will let you know how it goes.
Hello,I am Ivan from Bulgaria and I am an author of a ecofiction, YA novel.My book is called ''Ana who understood the animals and not only'' and can be found on Amazon,Kobo,B&N etc..The plot is about a girl who is able to understand the language of animals,one day she meets Nico -a stork who lost his family in his first migration and he is confused and alone.Ana gives him a hand and both become close friends in a short time.One day they decide to go on a journey to Africa in order to find the stork's family.On the way they face vicious people who cause serious ecological problems but also good friends.Ana and Nico rise against every ecological damage and its source and often with risk for their lives they save plants,animals.natural resources and help the local people who are tortured by rich businessmen and industries.In the end it turns out that Ana has her talent by a specific reason and she was chosen to prove that people deserve to dominate the world and not to be eliminate. The end is open and I plan to write second part soon.
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This sounds like a powerful YA novel with many themes which are important today.
''Ana who Understood the Animals and not Only''
When you put the cover up on Goodreads show it to us here.
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by Verity Croker
How a girl from Australia is caught up in a climate refugee crisis.
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has informed me of the loss of author Anne Rivers Siddons
author of books set around natural environments such as
Fault Lines
Low Country
Also we have lost Dorothea Benton Frank
Dorothea Benton Frank
Isle of Palms
Bulls Island
Here is a tribute to the two South Carolina authors, from a local magazine. Written by Mary Alice Monroe and Patti Callahan Henry
https://gardenandgun.com/articles/rem...
Hi! I'm new to this group and I'm glad that I found it. I'm about to release my next climate fiction novel on October 31, so I'm taking this as an opportunity to get back on Goodreads and connect with fellow authors and readers.Here's what I'm working on currently:
http://treesong.org/order
I also review the world of other cli-fi authors, so I'm looking forward to catching up on what others have posted here and maybe including a few of the titles in my next round of reviews. If you're an author and you're willing to send me a review copy, that will definitely put you higher on the list of titles I'm reviewing. :)
Thanks,
Treesong
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We have a thread where you can promote your books.
I review a lot of books and always read books with environmental themes. If Order isn't ready yet maybe you could send me Change. I'm currently taking a journalism degree so can't guarantee to read by any date.
Clare wrote: "Hi Treesong, good to have you with us. We have a thread where you can promote your books.
I review a lot of books and always read books with environmental themes. If Order isn't ready yet maybe ..."
Thanks Clare! I'll look for that book promotion thread when I'm back on here tonight. Where would you like me to send a copy of Change? Do you read ebooks or only print? Let me know and I'll send a copy your way. Whenever you're able to review it, that would be helpful. No pressure to read it by a certain date, especially since it's not my newest title anyway. But every bit helps!
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Thank you for your gracious offer! Please send me your contact infomration and I will send you a copy in a jiffy!
My e-mail address is ken@feasibleplanet.com
Ken :)