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A Q&A with Love & Ordinary Creatures author Gwyn Hyman Rubio Q: How did you come up with the idea for this book? A: Fifteen years ago, the idea for this book materialized while my husband and I were traveling in Australia. We were eating lunch in a delicatessen at Airlie Beach, waiting for the …
A Q&A with The Green and the Red author Armand Chauvel Q: Why did you write this book? A: I wanted to write a fictional story that would provide an overview of vegetarianism, but present it in an entertaining way. The idea of a romance between the chef of a small vegetarian restaurant and the …
What is eco-fiction? This is a question we field frequently these days. The short answer is that eco-fiction is simply fiction that deals with environmental themes. Yet these issues show up in novels and stories in so many different forms, from mysteries to thrillers to literary works. And so we thought it would be helpful …
For Earth Day, Ashland Creek Press is offering an eco-fiction sampler and book giveaway. Simply email Ashland Creek Press at editors [at] ashlandcreekpress [dot] com, on or before April 22, using the subject line EARTH DAY, and you’ll receive a copy of our Eco-Fiction Sampler, which features excerpts of six works of environmental fiction. You’ll …
If you haven’t yet picked up your copy of JoeAnn Hart‘s new novel, Float, you’ll have plenty of opportunities! If you’re in New England, you can go to one of JoeAnn’s many upcoming events. (Below is a photo from her book launch party at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center, which was a Shelf Awareness Image …
In conversation with Float author JoeAnn Hart and cover artist Karen Ristuben JoeAnn Hart is the author of Float, a “witty, profound, and beautifully observed” (Margot Livesey) novel about family, the environment, and life in a hardscrabble seaside town in Maine. Karen Ristuben is an award-winning artist and educator whose work is environmental advocacy at its core. JoeAnn …
We printed up a whole bunch of ReadVeg stickers to help support Portland’s Northwest VegFest. While there’s a lot of wonderful and important nonfiction about animals, the environment, and other reasons to be veg, we especially love discovering great fiction that tackles these issues, and we decided that these stickers are a great way to …