In Elena Vasileva’s Substack, Care-Full Futures, there’s a May 25, 2026, entry titled “The Colonisation of Imagination,” with the subtitle “How to engage with stories that expand rather than narrow perception…
I’m back to dealing with getting The Steep Climes Quartet out into the world with the upcoming publication date of June 15, for Over Brooklyn Hills, the third book of…
I think this is the exact quote: “You have thirty mentions of externalities! Cut that by at least half!” I will keep the name of this beta-reader to myself, so…
Once in a while it is good to look back at what you’ve been doing and reflect on how you got to that work. I’ve been working on the Steep…
More academics at work on climate storytelling Everybody tries to figure things out, although what is being figured out is hardly the same for everyone. Nor is the method for…
In the Steep Climes Quartet, my literary climate fiction series that spans from 2026, 2029, 2035, and 2047, one important focus is imaging how we get from where we are…
A main concern of climate fiction, at least if you’re inclined to read academic essays or delve into an analysis of The Climate Fiction Writers League, is to build stories…
I’d written a post titled “Fun with Apocalypse”, on July 10, 2023, as I was in the last editorial review and rewrite stages for Kill Well, the first book of…
Early on in the creation of the series The Steep Climes Quartet, I wrote a post for my newly configured website. The website was reconfigured to support the series and…
There seems ever more to worry about these days. There’s nothing made up about our deep concerns, unfortunately, and worry is part of the nature of humanity. Put as plainly…