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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

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

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

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Victoria_Kii/116442809536364338

Help! Final 22 hours. Only 55% funded! Please help this Museum of the #Ucanny sequel to the finish line so the teams of real #artists and #authors can be paid for their hard work! Even if you're not interested, REPOST and help out this #indiepublisher #comic!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verybigcomics/the-lost-archive/description

Final 40 hours. This is only 55% funded! Please help this Museum of the #Ucanny sequel to the finish line so the teams of real #artists and #authors can be paid for their hard work! Even if you're not interested, repost and help out this #indiepublisher #comic!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verybigcomics/the-lost-archive

We all need healthy distractions! How about an #uncanny #comic about a sword with a complicated relationship with existence? @verybigcomics.com is #indiepublisher the works with real #artists and #writers. 4 people worked on this comic + an editor! Support them at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verybigcomics/the-lost-archive/description

We all need healthy distractions! How about an #uncanny #comic about a sword with a complicated relationship with existence? @verybigcomics.com is #indiepublisher the works with real #artists and #writers. 4 people worked on this comic + an editor! Support them at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verybigcomics/the-lost-archive/description

We all need healthy distractions! How about an #uncanny #comic about a sword with a complicated relationship with existence? @verybigcomics.com is #indiepublisher the works with real #artists and #writers. 4 people worked on this comic + an editor! Support them at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verybigcomics/the-lost-archive/description

We all need healthy distractions! How about an #uncanny #comic about a sword with a complicated relationship with existence? @verybigcomics.com is #indiepublisher the works with real #artists and #writers. 4 people worked on this comic + an editor! Support them at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verybigcomics/the-lost-archive/description

We all need healthy distractions! How about an #uncanny #comic about a sword with a complicated relationship with existence? @verybigcomics.com is #indiepublisher the works with real #artists and #writers. 4 people worked on this comic + an editor! Support them at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verybigcomics/the-lost-archive/description

A warm and encouraging children's picture book about independence, friendship, and learning that asking for help can make us stronger.

@Spinning_Wheel_Stories #indiepublisher #kidsbooks #kidlitauthor #indiekidlit #picturebooks #stephaniewheeler

https://ginaraemitchell.com/review-meet-reba-by-stephanie-wheeler/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

A warm and encouraging children's picture book about independence, friendship, and learning that asking for help can make us stronger.

@Spinning_Wheel_Stories #indiepublisher #kidsbooks #kidlitauthor #indiekidlit #picturebooks #stephaniewheeler

https://ginaraemitchell.com/review-meet-reba-by-stephanie-wheeler/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.

i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour

it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.

and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.

so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.

so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.

we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.

it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.

enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️

paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf

DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems

#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb

"Ain’t scared. Just wonderin how many times you’d have to shoot
him before he’d fall down."

Your occasional reminder that LORD OF ORDER is available wherever fine books are sold. Support #indiewriters and #indiepublisher.

#writingcommunity #writerslift #fiction #fictionbooks #dystopian #dystopianfuture #sciencefiction #NewOrleans #bookthreads #authorthreads

https://bookshop.org/p/books/lord-of-order-brett-riley/14526906?ean=9781945501418&next=t

"Ain’t scared. Just wonderin how many times you’d have to shoot
him before he’d fall down."

Your occasional reminder that LORD OF ORDER is available wherever fine books are sold. Support #indiewriters and #indiepublisher.

#writingcommunity #writerslift #fiction #fictionbooks #dystopian #dystopianfuture #sciencefiction #NewOrleans #bookthreads #authorthreads

https://bookshop.org/p/books/lord-of-order-brett-riley/14526906?ean=9781945501418&next=t

I have not been active on social media much lately, but I am so happy to see that my phone app for Mastodon is now working smoothly. I think I will be back here more now that my app is cooperating. I think this must be also in part due to tweaks and support from @PaulaToThePeople and the team, so I want to give a big shout out to them. I had really been enjoying connecting with others here on topics of creative writing around eco-fiction, visionary fiction, and what I like to call visionary eco-fiction, so I will be looking to make more of those sorts of connections going forward. If you are a like-minded creative writer, I hope we will be able to pick up an interesting thread of conversation together. Have a wonderful day, All! #CreativeWriting #EcoFiction #FrackingFiction #IndieAuthor #IndiePublisher #MedicalMarijuanaFiction #MetaphysicalFiction #Reiki #ReikiFiction #VisionaryEcoFiction #VisionaryFiction #WritersOfMastodon

Hey friends! Just a reminder that this sale is going on all month. ❤️ to all your support these past 15 years. (And if $9 is out of your budget, DM me for a freebie link, no questions asked) #RSpec #RubyOnRails #RubyFriends #IndiePublisher
https://mastodon.social/@ruralocity/114435425017295122

Pink Hydra Press's fundraiser is live!! Donate to fund three free #queer #fantasy fiction zines to be published this year!

And if you donate, you'll get access to the first five chapters of my #sapphic fantasy novelette, "The Sea", ahead of it's release this May!

https://ko-fi.com/thepinkhydra/goal?g=3

#writing #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing #IndiePublisher

Ricordo agli amici del fediverso che qui si aggira anche il mio detective esistenzialista...

Contattalo qui ⬇️
@dogkane

#comicbook #FumettoIndipendente #DetectivePrivato #Esistenzialismo #graphicnovel #IndieComics #NarrativaVisiva #FumettiItaliani #DetectiveStory #IndiePublisher #ComicsCommunity #PrivateDetective #Existentialism #IndiePublisher #ComicArt #VisualNarrative #IndieGraphicNovel #ComicBookLovers

^ ^

#Orkney tales and stories published by Rhonda and Tom #Muir

https://www.orkneyology.com/

https://shop.orkneyology.com/collections/orkneyology-press-books

#indiePublisher #smallPublisher #micropress

Merry Christmas!
Greetings everybody. Here's wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and Happy, creative, and prosperous New Year! https://www.outlandarts.com

#merrychristmas #merryxmas #feliznavidad #2024 #HappyHolidays #HolidaySeason #holidays #seasonsgreeetings #snowman #rpg #ttrpg #tme #williammcausland #letitsnow #mutantepoch #handcrafteddungeons #fantasyclipinks #williammcausland #outlandarts #snow #xmas #painting #illustration #themutantepoch #indiepublisher #moon #maninthemoon #cabin #kamloops

Characters of the Epoch, a cyborg, plantoid, bestial human mouse, and self aware robot. Art at the bottom of page 23 for Table XR-12 / Rank Gain Bonus Matrix From The Mutant Epoch RPG’s new Expansion Rules book!

Watcha video overview of this new book at RPG Overviews on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmR1zStcU38

#cyborg #plantoid #mouseling #bestialhuman #mousegirl #robot #selfaware #agi #rpg #ttrpg #mutantepoch #rankgain #character #combatready #plantman #mutant #pkayercharacter #outlandsystem #outlandarts #ink #inkart #kamloopspublisher #indiepublisher #adventure #game
#rankadvancement #level #levelup #experiencefactors #experiencepoints

Thirteen Parsecs Books Ready to Ship

New pictures from Elf-in-Chief, Jason Vey. Palettes of Thirteen Parsecs books have arrived and shipping will be starting!

#scifi #ttrpg #books #thesolarfrontier #indiepublisher

https://elflairgames.blogspot.com/2024/10/thirteen-parsecs-books-ready-to-ship.html

So my game Dudelings? Six months after launch we've only sold 522 copies. And of those 522, 70% haven't even launched the game once.

That's absolutely wild to me.

ROI for the game? Well, at the most conservative estimate, the game has made less than 4% of what I invested into it.

But I learned a lot.

#GameDev #IndieGame #VideoGames #IndiePublisher

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1905160/Dudelings_Arcade_Sportsball/

Some kids are born to be heroes. Check out the FREAKS book trailer below. Get your copy today. Support #indiewriters and #indiepublisher.

#writingcommunity #writerslift #Writers #Writer #author #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writersoftwitter #AuthorsOfTwitter #fiction #fictionbooks #fictionwriter #youngadult #horror #superheroes #Arkansas

https://vimeo.com/574544795

#CoverReveal
Mein #Schreibtagebuch2023 wird am Montag (wenn alles klappt)
als #EbookOnly mit dem Titel #BücherSchreibenMitADHS erscheinen.
Es ist nicht nur ein #MakingOf meiner #SwedishRomace Romane, sondern gibt auch einen Einblick in den Alltag einer #IndiePublisher in.
Für interessierte #Leser:innen und als Motivation für #Autor:innen.

#CoverRevealDay

p.s. I *will* be moving off Substack in the new year, but I am still evaluating alternatives. I had pre-prepared a few posts before Christmas (and before the Substack controversy began) and this is one of them. Thank you for your patience. #IndiePublisher

Production begins on our June chapbook, Lisa Amico Kristel's chilling "String of Hearts." The covers are all printed ... now the interiors. #indiepublisher #horrorfiction #bookstagram

If you're in the GTA, visit us & a bunch of book pals this weekend at Little Beasts Brewery. We'll have all current books & bookish merch. If you're a writer, grab some liquid courage & pitch your book.* We open for subs in Sept!

*JK, no formal pitch needed. Friendly chats are great!

#bookfair #bookcrawl #indiepublisher #smallpress #torontoevents #gtaevents #whitbyontario

"The Last Days of Bester & Alma," by James Owens.

All morning the threat was coming closer, like air growing heavy under the pressure of a storm front.

The weather was fine enough: A few soft clouds floated beneath the blue sky, and sunlight draped like smooth, bright silk from the eaves.

But something was coming.

#fictionfriday #shortstory #indiepublisher

https://fabulistmagazine.com/the-last-days-of-bester-and-alma/

The cover is complete for my new poetry collection! Art by @mygrimmbrother
Coming soon!

#CoverReveal #IndiePublisher #Poetry #Books #Bookstodon

For today’s feature from Issue 1, we’re highlighting 2 outstanding #poems by #poet Josiah Nelson. Even better, Arboreal’s Editor-in-Chief got to #interview Josiah about his process, influences, & much more.

Check out the full interview here: https://bit.ly/3KvFBkl

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetryisnotdead #creativewriting #writing #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writerlife #literature #literarymagazine #literarymagazines #litmag #litmags #literaryjournal #indiepublishing #indiepublisher

Happy dance over here!!! Otter Coast: A Medical Marijuana Mystery... Join in on the book party... because my second eco-fiction novel is ready for you! Read a review, buy & read, add a starred review!

As architectural intern Amalia Sengupta Erenwine grapples with her nascent career in New York City and the consequences of her new relationship, her friend the Reverend Mildred McCaine plans a panel about medical marijuana at her Binghamton church. When these two women take off on a road trip back to Mildred's hometown, they each in their own way intend to prove themselves pure of intent and unencumbered by their pasts. Amalia hopes to demonstrate she's true to her word and figure out her love life, and Mildred is drawn to confront fuzzy details about her family's past. But when the women uncover mysterious goings-on at Mildred's childhood home, an intriguing ancient artifact, and long-forgotten memories of otters at play, their fine intentions come unraveled. How will Amalia reconcile her deeper knowing with her life's goals? And how will Mildred remember and come to terms with her family's history, and her own present and new unfolding?

Links are ready in two places - Barnes and Noble and Amazon...

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/otter-coast-maia-kb-chowdhury/1143042148?ean=9798986185415

https://www.amazon.com/Otter-Coast-Medical-Marijuana-Mystery/dp/B0BV5DD9LB/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1676895718&refinements=p_27%3AMaia+Kb+Chowdhury&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Maia+Kb+Chowdhury

Canadian link is here:

https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/otter-coast-a-medical-marijuana-mystery/9798986185415.html

UK link is here:

https://www.waterstones.com/book/otter-coast/maia-kb-chowdhury/9798986185415

Asia, Africa, ANZA are best served by Amazon. For international, orders, please go directly to your local bookseller and order with this information:

Maia Chowdhury, Otter Coast, ISBN: 9798986185415

Please add a starred review on Goodreads, as it helps to generate more interest and views, rankings and sales. Tell your friends and share this message...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100779578-otter-coast

Thank you, friends, for all your support in the making of this book! Enjoy!

Maia :-) <3

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After talking about it non-stop for weeks, we’ll keep it simple: Issue No. 01 is here.

Thank you, and enjoy.

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3 Good Things, Monday!

1. My art open house (drop in by appointment) is going well! Have sold a few pieces so far (all Reiki-infused and inspired), and more appointments scheduled prior to December 24th. In the photo I've attached, you'll see one of my paintings in the background behind all the text of the book cover for my new novel (see number 2 below). :-)

2. I am on track for publishing my second novel (Otter Coast, a medical marijuana mystery!) on the Winter Solstice. A funny day perhaps in light of the timing with holiday sales (it is not in time for people to order paper copies for Christmas and have them arrive, but e-books will be in time); it feels right, so I'm going for it. Also, as you'll see from the photo of the book cover design in progress, we have lots of Lorem Ipsum text to be replaced. I love Lorem Ipsum text, makes me feel like clean dishes, clean sheets, new opportunities. :-)

3. I'm getting closer to solving some work-related architecture and engineering design challenges which are always intriguing to me. Although I can't talk about work-work, I can say that in novel number 1 (The Erenwine Agenda---a love story that centers on fracking---which I am ALSO reissuing on the Solstice, in my given name, Maia Chowdhury) and in novel number 2, there is lots of workplace drama of the highest caliber! 🙂

Now, back to said Day Job. 🙂

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Hi @zhivi ! You asked me to describe my ecofiction... here is my best go at it, this morning. 

I write for myself and others who are interested in visualizing what is possible, from a perspective of where we are starting. It's not science fiction. It's not realistic fiction. It's somewhere in between. I call it Visionary Ecofiction. I've written three novels, one is published (The Erenwine Agenda, with a focus on hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas extraction process), another is about to be published (Otter Coast, with a focus on medical marijuana and creative states of consciousness) and the third is - well, still being written through Nanowrimo (Rail is the working title, although I have changed it up a few times already; it has a focus on the logistics of high speed transit and community planning - and the protagonist is aiming to save the world 🙂).

All three interweave romance, although they're not romances. I call them adventures, love stories, mysteries... a little of all of these. Visionary Ecoficiton encapsulates the intrigue of all these genres, for me. The work is typically classified as Literary Fiction or Contemporary Fiction, and is also listed as Visionary and Metaphysical Fiction. The Erenwine Agenda was shortlisted for an international publishing award in the Visionary and Metaphysical category, and reached #5 on Amazon in the same group. It's on several Goodreads Lists (including Powell's Books') for classic and new Ecofiction and CliFi (Climate Change Fiction). I began publishing myself, and then branched out into publishing work of other authors when I realized there are many other people like me, who are optimists in the world and who write about ecology. We needed a platform! I created one. (This is the link.) https://www.aseiarts.com/

I think one of the best encapsulations of my work comes in the form of an interview conducted by the old Ecofiction.com site, now Dragonfly.eco. It was written a while ago when I was still married, and was not as far along in my writing trajectory - yet it summarizes the spirit of my work very clearly. (Thanks Mary for updating my name!) https://dragonfly.eco/maia-kb-chowdhury/ @ecofiction

My work (partly what you and I began talking about) also touches on race, identity and social context. I think that is as important in today's emerging conversations about climate as is the basic underlayment of ecology in ecofiction. How we identify ourselves and each other IS our cultural ecology. As a woman of mixed race, who identifies with more than one group, I feel a personal responsibility (and pleasure) to share my own intersectional experience through writing. 

Thank you for asking!

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