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  1. About the art process behind my book covers…and a question...

    I began abstract painting around 2015–2016 after many years of realistic pen and ink sketching connected to my architectural work. Over time, colour, geometry, and nature shifted my practice toward abstraction.

    In 2022, I gave an artist talk at the Lundt‑Glover Gallery in Chatham, NJ, hosted by the Art League of the Chathams, where I discussed my work at the time, including digital developments in NFTs and my decision not to pursue that direction.

    Later that year, I began the 27‑painting series that my current ecofiction trilogy covers are based on, using four panels from that show as the starting point for the newer work.

    Three good things:
    1. Making art.
    2. Sharing art.
    3. Selling art to pay for more art supplies!!!

    Watch the full 38‑minute talk here: youtu.be/X400L4JI-LQ

    The piece shown, Wellness, was part of the solo show and later became the cover for our ASEI Arts international charity anthology, Anthology House Vol. 2, created to benefit UNICEF.

    A question for my art and book lover peeps here: when you think about art and the art of book covers, what lights you up, what inspires you, and what are you drawn to reach out for?

    #AbstractArt #ArchitectureFiction #ArtSupplies #ArtistTalk #AuthorReading #BookArt #BookTrilogy #CliFi #ClimateFiction #DesignThinking #Ecofiction #HopePunk #MixedMediaArt #NFT #NFTArt #ReikiArt #ScribesAndMakers #SolarPunk #Sustainability #SystemsThinking #WomenInArchitecture #WomenInSTEM #WomenInSTEAM #WritersCoffeeClub @ThreeGoodThings

  2. I just posted a new MKBC Studio video introducing my ecofiction trilogy: The Erenwine Agenda, Otter Coast, and Rail. It includes the new covers, the artwork behind each design, and short live readings from all three books. This one was fun to make and brings together architecture, landscape, memory, and environmental storytelling.

    If you enjoy ecofiction, design thinking, or interdisciplinary work, you might like this look at how the trilogy came together.

    Watch here: youtu.be/jnQ2mWvMFZM

    #ArchitectureFiction #AuthorReading #BookTrilogy #ClimateFiction #DesignThinking #Ecofiction #MixedMediaArt #ScribesAndMakers #Sustainability #SystemsThinking #WomenInArchitecture #WritersCoffeeClub

  3. 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. 🔗 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.
    🔗 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
    @3goodthings

  4. Rail: A High Speed Adventure is now officially available as an ebook in Canada!

    This eco‑fiction novel grew out of years of work in architecture, infrastructure, climate research, and storytelling. I’m excited to finally share it with Canadian readers.

    Paperback pre‑sales will be opening soon.
    Amazon link: amazon.ca/dp/B0H85946VT
    Note: if the Kindle link doesn’t load in Chrome, try another browser — Amazon.ca is still updating the listing.

    Thanks for following along on this long creative journey.

    #Arctic #ArcticFiction #Architecture #CanadianAuthor #ClimateFiction #CreativeWriting #EcoFiction #HighSpeedRail #Hokkaido #IndieAuthor #IndiePublisher #Japan #NYC #Permafrost #ScribesAndMakers #Sustainability #Svalbard #WomenInArchitecture #WomenInSTEM #WomenInSTEAM

  5. I posted a new Medium piece about presales and how they shape an independent book rollout. Readers often see presales as a convenience, but they influence visibility, search behaviour, and how a book enters the market. I wanted to map out the mechanics from an indie author’s perspective.

    The post is here:
    maiakumari.medium.com/10-thing

    Posting the image here natively for clarity. It is one of my paintings, Intertidal Light.

    #Arctic #ArcticFiction #BCAuthor #CanadianAuthor #CrossBorderFiction #Ecofiction #Hokkaido #HokkaidoFiction #IndieAuthor #IndiePublisher #NewYork #NewYorkFiction #PlaceBasedFiction #Presales #ScribesAndMakers #Svalbard #SvalbardFiction #VancouverAuthor #WomenInArchitecture #WomenInSTEAM #WomenInSTEM

  6. Pleased to share a joint article with my mother Alla Martynyuk-Medvecka on women architects of Lviv, focusing on their professional trajectories and everyday practices in the Soviet period, as well as the visible and invisible material heritage of the city they co-created. The article is available in Ukrainian.

    mistosite.org.ua/uk/articles/n

     
    Many thanks to the Mistosite's team: Daryna Nikolenko, Gala Koziutynska, studioserigraph

    #ukraine #lviv #architecture #womenshistory #womeninarchitecture

  7. A CHARMINGLY ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION of short, breezy but well researched and informative biographies of women (and genderfluid people perceived by many as women) whose pioneering achievements have often been overlooked. B PLUS

    barnesandnoble.com/w/im-not-yo

    @bookstodon

    #book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #nonfiction #history #womenshistory #womeninart #womeninscience #womeninarchitecture #womeninpolitics #lgbtqai2s

  8. Architektur in Stuttgart: „Erwartet kein Lob. Sucht euch Verbündete“

    Ausgezeichnete Bauten von Katja Knaus, Liza Heilmeyer, Elke Reichel (v. li.) in Stuttgart. Foto: Brigida González, Zooey Braun, Brigida…
    #Stuttgart #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Architektur #Ausstellung #Baden-Württemberg #BDA #Frauen #Germany #Kultur #WomeninArchitecture
    europesays.com/de/205881/

  9. Architektur in Stuttgart: „Erwartet kein Lob. Sucht euch Verbündete“

    Schaut man sich um in den Vorlesungssälen und Seminarräumen der Universitäten, sind viele Studentinnen zu zählen. Sogar schon…
    #Stuttgart #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Architektur #Ausstellung #Baden-Württemberg #BDA #Frauen #Germany #Kultur #WomeninArchitecture
    europesays.com/de/205879/

  10. Mit 3 Veranstaltungen beteiligt sich die #TUBraunschweig am #WomenInArchitecture Festival.

    📍 Am 24.6. gibt es einen Stadtspaziergang „Braunschweig für alle?“. Studierende haben Orte in der Stadt aus der Sicht von Frauen erkundet – von öffentlichen Toiletten bis zu Erinnerungsorten.

    📍 Am 26.6. folgt die Ausstellung „Chancengleichheit und Vielfalt in der #Architektur – haben wir schon alles erreicht?!“ mit anschließender Podiumsdiskussion.

    👉 lnk.tu-bs.de/cjNMsC

    #WIA25

  11. 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. 🙂

    #3GoodThings @3goodthings

    #Architect #ArtForSale #CreativeWriting #DayJob #Desi #EcoFiction #Fracking #HolidaySale #HydraulicFracturing #IndieAuthor #IndiePublisher #IndependentPublisher #LoremIpsum #MixedDesi #MedicalMarijuana #Mystery #Publishing #Reiki #SmallPress #Solstice #VisionaryEcoFiction #VisionaryFiction #WinterSolstice #WomenInArchitecture #WomenInSTEAM #WomenInSTEM #Writer #Writing

  12. CW: Dec 6 Ecole Polytechnique Memorial

    Updated ... one of the survivors participated in a storytelling related, that amplifies the voice of feminism:

    cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/natha

    Today is the day that we honour women in science, in respect for those who lost their lives on December 6th in Montreal. I don't see it in the news very much in the US (not at all, actually). It's been an important day for me as a woman working in architecture, even though the event occurred before I had even begun my studies in the field. I was an urban geography student at the time, considering the next steps in my career. I'm proud to be a woman working in STEM & STEAM.

    #WomenInSTEM #WomenInSTEAM #WomenInArchitecture

    thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/

  13. Please boost this question to reach academic and industry connections here working in climate resilience (and TIA)!

    I’m interested in pursuing doctoral level research related to my work in architecture and climate. I have two clear paths open right now: DBA (Doctor of Business Admin) and PhD. Either could be part time and online while I am working full time as an architect (see #DayJob) and my goal would be to stay on the industry side, not to go into teaching full time, although I am interested in some teaching and research. Do you know anyone who is doing climate resilience research and work in architecture and planning who ties the for-profit business / non-profit / IGO/ NGO admin aspects in? I would love to connect and I have a million questions! Thank you.

    #AdaptiveReuse
    #Architects
    #ClimateAction
    #ClimateResearch
    #ClimateResilience
    #DBA
    #Doctorate
    #IGO
    #NGO
    #PhD
    #Planning
    #Research
    #SeaLevelRise
    #UnitedNations
    #UrbanPlanning
    #WomenInArchitecture
    #WomenInSTEAM
    #WomenInSTEM

  14. CW: Book review and mild promo?!

    @bookishbrews I’m thinking I should have you review and/or set up an interview related to my novel The Erenwine Agenda prior to my reissuing it under my new (post divorce) name, and also have you review Otter Coast prior to its publication. Those are novels 1 and 2 in my trilogy (it’s the 3rd one I’m first drafting in Nanowrimo now). The trilogy is ecofiction and has mixed race characters (mixed Desi, mixed First Nations). And other race related themes that I won’t say because they would be book spoilers! Lmk how this works. E-mail [email protected] if preferred. Also tagging @ecofiction as I am interested in having you review these as well from an earth based ecofiction perspective.

    And thanks!

    #AmWriting #EcoFiction #VisionaryFiction #VisionaryEcoFiction #Nanowrimo #IndieAuthor #IndiePublishing #BIPOC #WomenInArchitecture #WomenInSTEM #WomenInSTEAM #AsianCanadian #CanLit #AsianAmerican #Desi #MixedDesi #MixedRace #FirstNations #MixedFirstNations #Metis

  15. Please boost! Where are my #permafrost people? Specifically looking for people, institutes and publications working on problems and solutions research about changes to permafrost due to climate change, sea level rise at permafrost edges (if/where) and impacts to building foundations and bridges. Best practices for #HelicalPiles (recommended?). Other #CivilEngineering and #StructuralEngineering solutions? More focused on ground conditions, #archeology and also interested in impacts to #atmosphere and #biodiversity … This is for my ecofiction research for novel #3 in the Erenwine trilogy. Thank you! #nanowrimo #AmWriting #EcoFiction #WomenInArchitecture #WomenInSTEAM #WomenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM

  16. 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: aseiarts.com/landing-theerenwi

    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!

    #AmericanAuthor
    #Architect
    #Binghamton
    #CanadianAuthor
    #CanLit
    #CliFi
    #Desi
    #EcoFiction
    #Ecology
    #Energy
    #Engineer
    #Fiction
    #Fracking
    #GreenBuilding
    #IndieAuthor
    #Inspiration
    #MarcellusShale
    #MixedDesi
    #NaturalGas
    #NewYork
    #OilAndGas
    #Pennsylvania
    #ShaleGas
    #Sustainability
    #VisionaryEcoFiction
    #VisionaryEcology
    #WomenInArchitecture
    #WomenInSTEAM
    #WomenInSTEAM

  17. Updating my intro…
    I’m a green building architect and painter, writer, reiki master. I write ecofiction and post under #solutionsjournalism. I’m an advocate for women and those who identify as women in science. Started a visionary ecofiction publishing company a few years back, www.aseiarts.com, and am working on a trilogy of novels (#1 is published: about fracking; #2 is going to be published soon: about medical marijuana; #3 in first draft mode: about high speed transport). I’m a born amplifier of other people’s good work. Glass half full. 😊 Canadian born mixed desi in the NE USA.

    #architect
    #artist
    #bengali
    #celtic
    #climateresilience
    #desi
    #ecofiction
    #fedi22
    #geographer
    #introduction
    #meditation
    #migration
    #mixed
    #mixedmedia
    #newjersey
    #newyork
    #pennsylvania
    #refugees
    #reiki
    #sustainability
    #UBC
    #urbangeographer
    #vancouver
    #womeninarchitecture
    #womeninstem
    #womeninsteam
    #writer

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