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Paperbacks now available! 🌍📘

Three good things about this moment:
1️⃣ Print on demand means sustainable production and global access.
2️⃣ Getting books to readers is the heart of independent publishing.
3️⃣ Readers! You make the whole ecosystem real.

Rail: A High Speed Adventure is now open for paperback presale worldwide. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3ThRP6t

About Rail:
Drawn into a globe‑spanning infrastructure proposal with uncertain motives, a designer confronts ecological ethics, corporate ambition, and the meaning of home as her past and future converge.

Words from Global architect Raya Ani:
"Building on The Erenwine Agenda, this work expands the conversation between architecture, environment, and responsibility — moving from personal conflict into global systems and their consequences."

Ebooks are available now, worldwide.
🔗 https://bit.ly/3ThRP6t

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Paperbacks now available! 🌍📘

Three good things about this moment:
1️⃣ Print on demand means sustainable production and global access.
2️⃣ Getting books to readers is the heart of independent publishing.
3️⃣ Readers! You make the whole ecosystem real.

Rail: A High Speed Adventure is now open for paperback presale worldwide. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3ThRP6t

About Rail:
Drawn into a globe‑spanning infrastructure proposal with uncertain motives, a designer confronts ecological ethics, corporate ambition, and the meaning of home as her past and future converge.

Words from Global architect Raya Ani:
"Building on The Erenwine Agenda, this work expands the conversation between architecture, environment, and responsibility — moving from personal conflict into global systems and their consequences."

Ebooks are available now, worldwide.
🔗 https://bit.ly/3ThRP6t

#3GoodThings #AmericanAuthor #BCAuthor #BookClub #BookLaunch #BookReview #BookWyrm #CanadianAuthor #ClimateFiction #DesignInFiction #DesignLeadership #DesignThinking #Ecofiction #EnvironmentalStorytelling #ErenwineTrilogy #FictionAboutArchitecture #HighSpeedRail #Hokkaido #IndieAuthor #IndiePublishing #Infrastructure #NJAuthor #NYC #NewBookRelease #Presales #ReaderGuide #Resilience #SaltSpringIsland #ScribesAndMakers #SlowTravel #SmallPress #SustainableDesign #Svalbard #SystemsThinking #Urbanism #VancouverAuthor #VisionaryEcofiction #WhatToRead #WhatToReadNext #WomenAuthors #WomenInArchitecture #WomenInDesign #WomenInEngineering #WomenInLeadership #WomenInSTEAM #WomenInSTEM
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My new novel is here! Rail: A High Speed Adventure is now available in the US as an ebook, with worldwide presale open. Paperback presales will begin soon. Thank you for your support!

In the spirit of Mastodon and Three Good Things:
1. The time and space in which to write
2. The ability to connect with a flow of inspiration and to translate it into words
3. Indie publishing and readers who support

Rail is the third installment in a trilogy following architect Amalia Sengupta Erenwine across her professional arc — from intern architect, to studying for her exams, to becoming licensed and stepping into work that tests her skills, values, and sense of responsibility.

Global architect Raya Ani writes of Rail:
“Building on The Erenwine Agenda, this work expands the conversation between architecture, environment, and responsibility. The trilogy holds a consistent thread of care — for people, for place, and for the decisions that shape both.”

https://www.aseiarts.com/landing-rail
@ThreeGoodThings

#VisionaryFiction #VancouverAuthor #ThreeGoodThings #NewYorkStory #NJAuthor #IndieAuthor #HokkaidoStory #Ecofiction #CoquitlamAuthor #CanadianAuthor #BookLaunch #BCAuthor #ArcticStory #ArchitectsInFiction #AmericanAuthor

My new novel is here! Rail: A High Speed Adventure is now available in the US as an ebook, with worldwide presale open. Paperback presales will begin soon. Thank you for your support!

In the spirit of Mastodon and Three Good Things:
1. The time and space in which to write
2. The ability to connect with a flow of inspiration and to translate it into words
3. Indie publishing and readers who support

Rail is the third installment in a trilogy following architect Amalia Sengupta Erenwine across her professional arc — from intern architect, to studying for her exams, to becoming licensed and stepping into work that tests her skills, values, and sense of responsibility.

Global architect Raya Ani writes of Rail:
“Building on The Erenwine Agenda, this work expands the conversation between architecture, environment, and responsibility. The trilogy holds a consistent thread of care — for people, for place, and for the decisions that shape both.”

https://www.aseiarts.com/landing-rail
@ThreeGoodThings

#VisionaryFiction #VancouverAuthor #ThreeGoodThings #NewYorkStory #NJAuthor #IndieAuthor #HokkaidoStory #Ecofiction #CoquitlamAuthor #CanadianAuthor #BookLaunch #BCAuthor #ArcticStory #ArchitectsInFiction #AmericanAuthor

So excited to share the new book covers for my ecofiction trilogy! These were designed by Canadian artist and graphic designer Laurie Landry, who artfully incorporated my paintings. I worked on the trilogy for 15 years and the paintings (part of a series of 27 large panels) for 5 years...

The first two novels, The Erenwine Agenda: A Hydraulic Fracturing Love Story, and Otter Coast: A Medical Marijuana Mystery, were previously published and will be reprinted with the new covers. Rail: A High Speed Adventure, will be published for the first time in a few weeks.

What connects fracking, marijuana and infrastructure, you might ask? They are threaded together by the singular journey of the protagonist, Amalia Sengupta Erenwine, who begins as an intern working in architecture, then pursues her licensing exams, and finally, works as a registered architect. Her visionary states lead her across regions, countries and continents, culminating in the final novel, Rail. Though a trilogy, these can be read (and people are currently reading) standalone, not in order. I'll share more with next steps and notes from the studio.

For now: three good things, in Mastodon style: 1. inspired ideas 2. great collaborators 3. easy platforms on which to share them-thank you @PaulaToThePeople ! @ThreeGoodThings

#AmericanAuthor #ArchitectsInFiction #Architecture #BookCovers #BookCoverDesign #CanadianAuthor #CanLit #Climate #CliFi #ClimateFiction #DesiAuthor #Ecofiction #FrackingFiction #IndieAuthor #IndiePublisher #InfrastructureFiction #MarijuanaFiction #Solutions #SolutionsFiction #SolutionsJournalism #ThreeGoodThings #VisionaryFiction

So excited to share the new book covers for my ecofiction trilogy! These were designed by Canadian artist and graphic designer Laurie Landry, who artfully incorporated my paintings. I worked on the trilogy for 15 years and the paintings (part of a series of 27 large panels) for 5 years...

The first two novels, The Erenwine Agenda: A Hydraulic Fracturing Love Story, and Otter Coast: A Medical Marijuana Mystery, were previously published and will be reprinted with the new covers. Rail: A High Speed Adventure, will be published for the first time in a few weeks.

What connects fracking, marijuana and infrastructure, you might ask? They are threaded together by the singular journey of the protagonist, Amalia Sengupta Erenwine, who begins as an intern working in architecture, then pursues her licensing exams, and finally, works as a registered architect. Her visionary states lead her across regions, countries and continents, culminating in the final novel, Rail. Though a trilogy, these can be read (and people are currently reading) standalone, not in order. I'll share more with next steps and notes from the studio.

For now: three good things, in Mastodon style: 1. inspired ideas 2. great collaborators 3. easy platforms on which to share them-thank you @PaulaToThePeople ! @ThreeGoodThings

#AmericanAuthor #ArchitectsInFiction #Architecture #BookCovers #BookCoverDesign #CanadianAuthor #CanLit #Climate #CliFi #ClimateFiction #DesiAuthor #Ecofiction #FrackingFiction #IndieAuthor #IndiePublisher #InfrastructureFiction #MarijuanaFiction #Solutions #SolutionsFiction #SolutionsJournalism #ThreeGoodThings #VisionaryFiction

I’m home recovering after a bug, post-finishing my doctorate, post-finishing-school-vacation-trip, and in that in‑between space where I’m figuring out how to bring my doctoral thesis into the world as a book while preparing to release the third ecofiction novel in my trilogy.

I’ll share the trilogy more on Instagram soon; but of course I’ll talk about it here too.

While I’m resting, I’ve been thinking about two things:

1. How to share what I’ve learned from writing visionary ecofiction; not as formal tutorials, but as small, generous micro‑snippets of thought.
2. How much I enjoy posting Three Good Things here on Mastodon.

This led me to realize that the micro‑tutorials can become Three Good Things. A small, informal, unstructured series about what I’ve learned so far.

Here we go.

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Three Good Things I’ve Learned About Writing Visionary Ecofiction

1. It brings community together; even when people disagree.
Across all three novels, I learned so much from people with different perspectives:
• fracking / hydraulic fracturing (Book 1)
• medical marijuana (Book 2)
• high‑speed rail (Book 3).
Ecofiction is a meeting place; not a consensus.

2. Writing is solitary; but you don’t have to be lonely in it.
Anything that helps you contextualize yourself in your larger community is healthy;
walks, cafés, writing groups, reading groups, sharing drafts.
People’s commentary is subjective but sharing your work is grounding.
Place yourself in your wider spheres; it helps.

3. Take joy in the finishing and sharing stages.
There’s real pleasure in thinking about the special parts of your process and how you want to share them.
I love outlining, first drafting, sculpting, revising, hearing the text read back to me, and working with an editor and designer, but also, imagining the visual vignettes that accompany the trilogy. I’m figuring out a visual narrative to share the trilogy on Instagram.
Finishing is its own creative act.

Working in a genre that’s still emerging (visionary ecology or visionary ecofiction) gives me freedom to genre‑bend fearlessly.
Book 1 is a love story (but not a romance).
Book 2 is a mystery (but not a cozy).
Book 3 is an adventure (but not Indiana Jones).
The elasticity is part of the joy.

These are my three good things today, the first in what I hope will become an informal series of micro‑tutorials on writing visionary ecofiction.

What lights are you up? When you write, how do you define yourself within your genre?

Keep writing and share!

PS, the photo was taken at Giverny, Monet’s Garden in France, on my recent trip.

#VisionaryFiction #VisionaryEcoFiction #VancouverAuthor #TransportationFiction #ThreeGoodThings #NewYorkAuthor #NewJerseyAuthor #MetaphysicalFiction #MedicalMarijuanaFiction #LiteraryFiction #IndiePublisher #IndieAuthor #FrackingFiction #EcoFiction #CreativeWriting #CanadianAuthor #CanLit #BritishColumbiaAuthor #Bookstodon #AmericanAuthor

I’m home recovering after a bug, post-finishing my doctorate, post-finishing-school-vacation-trip, and in that in‑between space where I’m figuring out how to bring my doctoral thesis into the world as a book while preparing to release the third ecofiction novel in my trilogy.

I’ll share the trilogy more on Instagram soon; but of course I’ll talk about it here too.

While I’m resting, I’ve been thinking about two things:

1. How to share what I’ve learned from writing visionary ecofiction; not as formal tutorials, but as small, generous micro‑snippets of thought.
2. How much I enjoy posting Three Good Things here on Mastodon.

This led me to realize that the micro‑tutorials can become Three Good Things. A small, informal, unstructured series about what I’ve learned so far.

Here we go.

---

Three Good Things I’ve Learned About Writing Visionary Ecofiction

1. It brings community together; even when people disagree.
Across all three novels, I learned so much from people with different perspectives:
• fracking / hydraulic fracturing (Book 1)
• medical marijuana (Book 2)
• high‑speed rail (Book 3).
Ecofiction is a meeting place; not a consensus.

2. Writing is solitary; but you don’t have to be lonely in it.
Anything that helps you contextualize yourself in your larger community is healthy;
walks, cafés, writing groups, reading groups, sharing drafts.
People’s commentary is subjective but sharing your work is grounding.
Place yourself in your wider spheres; it helps.

3. Take joy in the finishing and sharing stages.
There’s real pleasure in thinking about the special parts of your process and how you want to share them.
I love outlining, first drafting, sculpting, revising, hearing the text read back to me, and working with an editor and designer, but also, imagining the visual vignettes that accompany the trilogy. I’m figuring out a visual narrative to share the trilogy on Instagram.
Finishing is its own creative act.

Working in a genre that’s still emerging (visionary ecology or visionary ecofiction) gives me freedom to genre‑bend fearlessly.
Book 1 is a love story (but not a romance).
Book 2 is a mystery (but not a cozy).
Book 3 is an adventure (but not Indiana Jones).
The elasticity is part of the joy.

These are my three good things today, the first in what I hope will become an informal series of micro‑tutorials on writing visionary ecofiction.

What lights are you up? When you write, how do you define yourself within your genre?

Keep writing and share!

PS, the photo was taken at Giverny, Monet’s Garden in France, on my recent trip.

#VisionaryFiction #VisionaryEcoFiction #VancouverAuthor #TransportationFiction #ThreeGoodThings #NewYorkAuthor #NewJerseyAuthor #MetaphysicalFiction #MedicalMarijuanaFiction #LiteraryFiction #IndiePublisher #IndieAuthor #FrackingFiction #EcoFiction #CreativeWriting #CanadianAuthor #CanLit #BritishColumbiaAuthor #Bookstodon #AmericanAuthor

April 21st, 1910 was the day that #AmericanAuthor #MarkTwain died. Here is just one of the many, many books our collection at SUB Göttingen holds by & on Twain: "Dear Mark Twain - Letter from his readers", edited by R. Kent Rasmussen

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=722106408

#PatriciaHighsmith died #OTD in 1995. The #AmericanAuthor was known for her thrillers, many of which were adapted for the screen, incl her 1952 novel The Price of Salt, made into the 2015 film #Carol: famously a #LesbianNovel with a happy ending!

#queerfiction #AdaptationStudies

Trying this again with the right tags this time!!! Newbie problems...

Here is the first page of The Erenwine Agenda, my first published ecofiction novel, sharing for #FlashFicFriday

Amalia Sengupta Erenwine stood in the middle of the gravel lot in Binghamton’s Aqua-Terra County Park, and eyed the mud puddles ahead on the trail. Lace-ups were a good start, but she needed something more heavy-duty on her feet. Betsy stood on the far side of the clearing, head bowed over a printed set of Polson Grohman’s architectural drawings, in a quiet huddle with the environmental center partners and the gas executives from Atlantia Actuaris.

With Betsy across the clearing and a moment to herself, Amalia could breathe it all in and enjoy it for what it was: a spectacular natural environment. The park gave her a boost of energy; just to be in it was enough. She put the camera in her bag opposite her packed lunch, rested the bag on a tipped-up stone slab at the trailhead, and glanced ahead to see dark clouds gather on the horizon beyond the fall colors of upstate New York.

Trying to let go of her inner conflict with the gas company’s investment had drawn it closer, and she found herself facing the reality that her internship in architecture was underwritten by the natural gas industry. Fracking supported her growth as an architect. Her environmentalism turned so awry, so quickly, on her move to New York City.

to read more: https://www.aseiarts.com/landing-theerenwineagenda

on Powell's Books list of New and Classic Eco-Fiction

top 5 Amazon bestseller in Visionary Fiction

shortlisted for best Visionary Fiction, International Book Awards

soon to be reissued under Maia Kumari Bree Chowdhury

and... second in trilogy, Otter Coast, is about to be published - that one is a medical marijuana mystery!

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