The Steep Climes Quartet is a series that examines the near-future through 2050 consequences of climate change through the lens of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where subtle and not-so-subtle consequences reveal the future world of climate crisis is already here.
Kill Well, Berkshires in 2026; Dear Josephine, Berkshires in 2029
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Climate Change and the Berkshires
My book series, The Steep Climes Quartet, focuses on one little spot in this big…
Paying the Climate Piper: Household Budgets as Climate Fiction Subject Matter
Kill Well, the first book of The Steep Climes Quartet, takes…
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…
Climate Change Fiction: An Academic Perspective
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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…
Kill Well is Now Available at Oblong Books
My recently published novel, Kill Well (Book One, The Steep Climes Quartet) is now at…
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…
Keeping Pace with Reality in Climate Fiction
One persistent challenge that I faced in writing Kill Well was keeping up with climate…