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I am pleased to announce the publication of my new novel Guardians of Water. The book is available from all the usual sources. The paperback is $18 and the hardcover is $35. I suggest ordering it through your local bookstore. Tell them it’s available through Ingram. Please help me get the word out about this book. If you like it, tell some friends about it. Thanks for supporting me as a creative writer
Here's a little bit about Guardians of Water:
Six
diverse women friends meet for the weekend at a beach house to celebrate the
year in which they all turn forty. Two weeks later, a petroleum-eating bacteria
unleashed in the Gulf of Mexico to contain a spill goes rogue and devours all
the raw petroleum products in the world. After the Systems Collapse, each of
these women follows her own path to try to survive in a previously unimaginable
altered life. From a Washington, D.C. suburb to a survivalist community in
Kentucky, from Manhattan to a working class neighborhood in a town in upstate
New York, from Oakland to a Native Rancheria in rural northern California,
these women, their families, and their communities summon extraordinary
ingenuity, resilience, and vision in the hopes of forging a viable future. A
genre-bending work of speculative fiction, Guardians
of Water is combination eco-fiction, humanistic sci-fi, and disaster
fiction told from women’s perspectives.
This narrative explores relationships between people and communities, with each
other and the environment, when the established infrastructure and systems
fail. As new ways of being emerge and people rethink their values and cultural
norms, which communities will survive in the new ecology and which will crumble?
The characters must engage with their communities in new and challenging ways if
humans hope to survive as a species. Priorities, relationships, cultures,
ethics, and assets shift. Guardians of
Water reveals the things that truly matter for human survival while honoring
the resilience, resourcefulness, and brilliance of the human spirit.
