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The Steep Climes Quartet

Why I Wrote The Steep Climes Quartet

Well, for accuracy’s sake, only Kill Well (Book One) and Dear Josephine (Book Two) of The Steep Climes Quartet, are published (well, Dear Josephine shortly to be this Spring), while…

By David GuenetteMarch 16, 2024March 16, 2024Leave a comment
The Steep Climes Quartet

Kill Well, Berkshires in 2026; Dear Josephine, Berkshires in 2029

Sign up on site for news about the publication schedule for Dear Josephine and other news about The Steep Climes Quartet. Click here to sign up. I’ve been wearing the…

By David GuenetteFebruary 1, 2024March 5, 2024Leave a comment
The Steep Climes Quartet

Climate Change and the Berkshires

My book series, The Steep Climes Quartet, focuses on one little spot in this big world, and that spot the Berkshires, in Massachusetts. The story across the series spans nearly…

By David GuenetteDecember 14, 2023December 14, 2023Leave a comment
The Steep Climes Quartet

Paying the Climate Piper: Household Budgets as Climate Fiction Subject Matter

In my climate fiction series, The Steep Climes Quartet, I’m taken great pains to be realistic, and have grounded my scenarios in consensus science, although, of course, writing about the…

By David GuenetteNovember 24, 2023November 28, 2023Leave a comment
The Steep Climes Quartet

Dear Josephine Manuscript off to the Editor… and a Kill Well Award!

Yay for me, at any rate, that my manuscript for Dear Josephine is handed off to my editor, although my editor may be having a different reaction altogether. Dear Josephine,…

By David GuenetteOctober 28, 2023Leave a comment
The Steep Climes Quartet

Murder, Oil, and Blood Money: Is the climate fiction plot line of fossil fuel interests murdering someone far-fetched?

Kill Well has a plot with people embarked on nefarious deeds with the objective of protecting a big oil pipeline project and there is a murder, and a contract killer,…

By David GuenetteSeptember 8, 2023Leave a comment
The Steep Climes Quartet

Kill Well is Now Available at Oblong Books

My recently published novel, Kill Well (Book One, The Steep Climes Quartet) is now at Oblong Books-Millerton and Oblong Books – Rhinebeck. The march toward worldwide bookstore domination by Kill…

By David GuenetteSeptember 5, 2023September 5, 2023Leave a comment
The Steep Climes Quartet

The Fictional Timelines of The Steep Climes Quartet and Why My Palms Sweat

As I’ve mentioned in another post, I’m finding it a challenge in my climate fiction work to keep pace with climate change, and my work on Dear Josephine, the second…

By David GuenetteAugust 31, 2023Leave a comment
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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…

By David GuenetteAugust 21, 20231 Comment
The Steep Climes Quartet

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…

By David GuenetteAugust 17, 2023Leave a comment

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The Steep Climes Quartet
  • The Challenge of Conveying Climate Change Information in Climate Fiction
  • Writing the Future of Climate Change
  • Figuring Out Climate Fiction
  • Climate Fiction, Climate Fantasy: What’s the right mix of hope and disappointment?
  • Let’s Talk About Climate Optimism and Hope That We Can Write About Doing Something About Climate Change
  • Fun with Apocalypse, Part 2
  • Writing The Steep Climes Quartet, Part 2: Economics in Climate Fiction
  • Climate Change and the Human Condition
  • Writing Villains on Both Sides in Climate Fiction
  • Why We Write: A look back at why the heck I’m writing a four-book climate fiction series

Other Writing
  • How to Win the Electrotech Revolution
  • Let’s Get Serious About Solar
  • Fossil Fuel Demand Growth Uber Alles
  • The War on Big Oil
  • What is the State of States’ Efforts to Make Home Solar and BESS Easier and Cheaper?

Snips of Passing Interests
  • Oil War and Counter-War on Oil
  • The Architecture of Obstruction
  • Is Climate Hope Fiction Hopeless?
  • AI is Giving Me Gas
  • American Oil Marches On
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