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Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton was published this month by Forge. I talk to the author of the adult contemporary novel about her new release, and her motivations for writing about climate change. Tell us about your new book. Cadie Kessler, a forestry researcher, is in the middle of trying toContinue reading “Interview with Julie Carrick Dalton”

The climate crisis is upon us, and while meaningful action may be hampered by our politics and short-term mindsets prioritizing profit, our imaginations remain unfettered to envision a brighter future. A future that hasn’t been polluted by our overreliance on fossil fuels or soiled by plastic waste or sullied by habitat loss and the inevitableContinue reading “How to Build a Solarpunk City by Lauren C. Teffeau”

Today Laura Wood’s Middle Grade novel Effie the Rebel is published. I talk to Laura about her writing and activism for young readers. Effie is changing the world, one classroom at a time.Dark forces are at work at Highworth Grange school: the student council has been taken over by a tyrannical villain with his ownContinue reading “Interview with Laura Wood about Effie the Rebel”

A Spy in the Struggle by Aya de León was published this month by Kensington Books. I talk to the author of the adult thriller about her new release, and her motivations for writing about climate change. Tell us about your new book. A Spy in the Struggle is about a millennial Black woman whoContinue reading “Interview with Aya de León”

For me as a writer, place is essential to character. Every setting, whether an American city or an icy continent, has a personality, and where a character lives, or is from, is so vital to me in understanding that character. So I always begin a story not only with a character but with a senseContinue reading “Writing a love story to Antarctica by Midge Raymond”

Gallowglass by S J Morden was published this month by Gollancz. I talk to the author of the adult sci-fi novel about his new release, and his motivations for writing about climate change. Tell us about your new book. Gallowglass is a standalone near-future SF thriller about commercial asteroid mining – if you want anContinue reading “Interview with S J Morden”

It was a work-avoiding youtube wormhole. I can’t now remember what work it was that I was trying so hard not to do- marking, cleaning, lesson-planning maybe- but I was definitely being successful. I’d probably started off on a comedy cat video, but somehow, within a few clicks I’d ended up watching highlights from aContinue reading “Putting a Positive Spin on Rising Sea Levels by Clare Rees”

The Ballad of Tubs Marshfield by Cara Hoffman was published this month by HarperCollins. I talk to the author of the middle grade novel about her new release, and her motivations for writing about climate change. Tell us about your new book. The Ballad of Tubs Marshfield is an environmental fable about frog and hisContinue reading “Interview with Cara Hoffman”

by Marcus Sedgwick Almost exactly 20 years ago, I was writing what would become my first published novel, Floodland. Set in a future Britain in which rising sea levels from climate change have seen half of the country disappear under the waves, it came out in March 2000. Obviously, the publication of one’s first bookContinue reading “But we all know this stuff. Don’t we?”

Recommended books: STILLICIDE By Cynan Jones (New York Times) – “In “Stillicide,” the through-line is an iceberg headed for London. The novel opens many years after Britain has entered an extended drought, and enough time has passed for one phase of responses to yield to the next. After becoming a target for terrorists, a pipelineContinue reading “Climate Fiction in the news”