Keeping Pace with Reality in Climate Fiction
One persistent challenge that I faced in writing Kill Well was keeping up with climate change realities. There were a number of times over the several years of manuscript work…
Author: David Guenette
Why The Steep Climes Quartet? Showing People in Today’s Climate Crisis
I want to write climate fiction within which people can see themselves. What I don’t want to do with this series is to add to the already over-crowded pool of…
Hurricane Modeling? More, Please, Sir
Dr. Ryan Truchelut’s Weathertiger’s Hurricane Watch, on Substack, published “Atlantic’s Next Top Model: Hurricane Watch Weekly Column for July 11th,” and I found this column very interesting. This particular column…
Kill Well (Book One, The Steep Climes Quartet) Now Available in Paperback and eBook
As you know, I’ve been at work on a climate fiction series published by CMTI Publishing called The Steep Climes Quartet, and the first title, Kill Well, is now loosed upon…
Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Clean Energy Permitting Reform, YIMBY, and NIMBY
Big and little construction jobs need various permits, and if you have ever renovated your house, you know the process can be difficult and confusing, never mind time-consuming. Sometimes neighbors…
Kill Well, Book One of The Steep Climes Quartet, is out in ePub via Draft2Digital Next Week
I’m a bit bleary-eyed, but my efforts to get an ePub version of Kill Well has succeeded, and that success is mainly due (besides my being a stubborn son of…
Climate Fiction, Part Two
There are a lot of types of climate fiction. I’ve followed this genre (or sub-genre, or sub-sub-genre) from well before there was a name for it. I suppose anyone who’s…
Kill Well, Book One of The Steep Climes Quartet, is out in ePub via Draft2Digital Next Week
I’m a bit bleary-eyed, but my efforts to get an ePub version of Kill Well has succeeded, and that success is mainly due (besides my being a stubborn son of…
Covering the Climate Crisis Like War, with Oil in the Crosshairs
I was reading an article in Heated, published on July 11, 2023, with the provocative title “Oil Companies Are Laughing While the World Burns.” Arielle Samuelson and Emily Atkin are…
Why, Oh Why? The Doomer Dance and Other Annoyances
Many titles on the lists I get from Medium grab attention, and some grab better than others. Unfortunately, the doomer-inflected article titles seem better suited as flags for my attention,…