This month has been busy with podcasts and events. I was delighted to speak with Joanna Penn on the Creative Penn podcast earlier this month https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2021/11/19/writing-for-the-environment/. We talked about sustainability in the book industry, how to write eco-fiction without being preachy and the upcoming Orna Ross Green Stories novel prize coming up end of December
My first lesson is enjoy the process! Many things go wrong. I invited a film crew along to my book launch a few weeks ago thinking that while people were buzzing with the book and readings (and free alcohol) they could pick up some reviews to camera and clips of readings and put together a
Listen to Dave Goulson, Professor of Biology at Sussex University, founder of the BumbleBee Conservation Trust and author of numerous best sellers such as The Garden Jungle: Or Gardening to Save the Planet reading chapter 35 of Habitat Man. Caution: there are some slight spoilers.
Academics write articles about sustainability, but how many people read them? We commonly look to science to address the climate change crisis, but it is the arts and stories that fire imaginations and reach a wider audience that may never choose to watch a climate change documentary. Frustrated by the limited readership of academic articles,
