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EcofictologyEp 65: Co-writing and using environment for atmosphere with Devils Island by Midge Raymond and John YunkerHey ecofictologists, welcome to episode 65 of the Ecofictology podcast. This week we are chatting with Midge Raymond and John Yunker from Ashland Creek press and we are talking about their new book Devils Island, which launched in September, published by OceanView Publishing. We cover their inspiration, the experience of co-writing with your spouse and using environment as atmosphere in your writing. Enjoy!
Links
Devils Island: https://midgeandjohn.com/
Book events: https://midgeandjohn.com/events.html
John Yunker: https://www.johnyunker.com/
Midge Raymond: https://midgeraymond.com/
2024-10-1348 minEcofictologyEp 64: Writing and science communication for Children: Interview with Angela Mills, author of Bobby the Brown Long-Eared BatHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 64 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week we are talking to a younger audience with our guest, Angela Mills, the author of the beautifully illustrated book Bobby the Brown Long-eared bat. I came across Angela while listening to a panel talk that the Bat Conservation Trust was putting on along with other authors who wrote childrens books about bats. And there were a few children on the call and it was absolutely heartwarming to see them engaging so much. I was excited to talk to Angela about what she thought was important when writing...2023-09-2740 minEcofictologyEp 63: Connecting to nature through folklore: Interview with Kaitlyn Elverson from Bug lifeHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 63 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I’m introducing you to Kaitlyn Elverson, the engagement officer for Bug Life in the UK, who I found through the talks she gave for Buglife on the folklore of insects and on myth and mystery of folklore in the history of wildflowers and trees. I was fascinated and excited as I always am to find someone who turns to storytelling as a way to find connection to nature. Kaitlyn is also an musician and I will be linking all her various social medias below and i hi...2023-09-2046 minEcofictologyEp 62: Interview with Sarah Yarwood-Lovett, author of A Murder of CrowsHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 62 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week you are getting a twofer as my dad likes to call them. You’re getting a little bit of a book review and then right on its heels, an interview with the author, one that i was downright giddy to do. The book? A Murder of Crows, the first book in the Nell Ward Mystery series. The author? Sarah Yarwood lovett, an ecological consultant who has put her knowledge and her experiences into a murder mystery novel. Can you see why i was excited? This book turned ou...2023-09-131h 06EcofictologyEp 61: How important is scientific accuracy in fiction?Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 61 of the Ecofictology podcast! This episode was really just a giant brain dump of things that I had been thinking about, lots of ideas and mostly questions about how important is scientific accuracy in fiction. We’ve all had that experience where we read something outside of our field of expertise and think it’s really cool and well researched and then read something inside our field and think, well this would never happen its entirely unrealistic. But how much artistic license could we give the author in order to make it a comp...2023-09-0632 minEcofictologyEp 60: Interview with AE Copenhaver, author of My Days of Dark Green EuphoriaHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 60 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am introducing you to a wonderful author, AE Copenhaver, who I had the great pleasure of talking to. This interview is a little different than others I have done because I wasn’t only interviewing her about her book, My Days of Dark Green Euphoria, which was published by Ashland Creek Press, you’ll recognise that publisher if you’ve been around for a while...but i wasn’t only asking questions about that, what i really wanted to talk to Athena about was the strength of messa...2023-08-301h 08
EcofictologyEp 59: Coming of age, mind control perfume and a revolution | Spells & Specialists with Mauricio Garcia Part 4Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 59 of the Ecofictology podcast! This is the final part of our Spells and Specialists episode with mauricio garcia and i have thoroughly enjoyed learning about perfumes and smells and all the wondrous things that he has taught us in previous parts. This part 4 is where we brainstorm a story to communicate all that wondrousness to the world and i have to say, i immediately want to write this story. I feel like i say that every spells and specialists episode but i got really excited about this and the story just came together...2023-08-231h 07
EcofictologyEp 58: Perfume-based magic tech | Spells & Specialists with Mauricio Garcia Part 3Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 58 of the Ecofictology podcast! I’m sure you’ve been waiting for this part of our Spells and Specialists episode with Mauricio Garcia where we build a magic system based on the art of perfumery and our seed crystal of “magically infused perfumes can gently alter aspects of reality as well as creatures, minds and bodies”. What a cracker of a seed crystal! And we do come up with a cracker of a magic system as well, and we totally don’t control ourselves when it comes to not jumping forward to part 4. In fact we...2023-08-1647 min
EcofictologyEp 57: Reality altering perfumes | Spells & Specialists with Mauricio Garcia Part 2Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 57 of the Ecofictology podcast! This is Part 2 of our spells and specialists episode with Mauricio Garcia, the perfumer and aromatherapist who blew our minds last week teaching us all the cool stuff. As a recap, our main messages from part 1 were that smell is form of pseudo psychic messaging, that industry and scent create global connections, and that the process of perfumery is resource intensive and we have a responsibility to do it ethically and sustainably. Part 2 as you know by now is all about finding our seed crystal, which is a concept t...2023-08-0956 min
EcofictologyEp 56: Perfumery, herbcraft and aromatherapy | Spells & Specialists with Mauricio Garcia Part 1Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 56 of the Ecofictology podcast! It is that time again, we are in for another treat and honestly I am so excited about this guest. Say the name of the show, Lovis, say the name of the show! This is a Spells and specialists episode and our guest is Mauricio garcia who is a designer, perfumer and certified aromatherapist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Honestly, the stuff we teaches us about perfumes, how to build them, analyse them, all the different concoctions you make with the plant matter, it will blow your...2023-08-021h 05
EcofictologyEp 20: My experience being a judge for the XR wordsmiths Solarpunk writing contest!Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 20 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Minisode Monday i’m just really going to be gushing about my experience being a judge for the extinction rebellion wordsmiths solarpunk writing contest in 2022. This was an honour for me to be a part of and honestly it really gave me so much hope and so many energy pennies. It was a wonderful experience and actually I was asked to do it again in 2023 and had an equally rewarding and fulfilling experience so, yeah. I’ll stop this portion of gushing and let you get to the offi...2023-08-0112 min
EcofictologyEp 14: Interview with Dr. Octavia Cade (The Impossible Resurrection of Grief) with guest host Forrest BrownHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 14 of the Ecofictology podcast! Following on from the book review that you got on Monday, here is the interview with the wonderful Octavia cade all about her novella The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, which touches on these concepts of ecogrief and ecoanxiety in a terrifying magical realism kind of way. I so much enjoyed talking to her with my cohost Forrest Brown, we were both incredibly excited to be able to chat with her, so I hope you are excited to hear it. As usual, This is an archived episode from my youtube...2023-08-0158 min
EcofictologyEp 19: Middle grade novel about functional behaviours | Spells & Specialists with E. Corri Moss-Hunter Part 4Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 19 of the Ecofictology podcast! This is the final part of our Spells and Specialists episode with Corri Moss-hunter and we have created such a cool magic system so now it’s time to brainstorm a story that will communicate all that goodness to the world. Think we can do it? I do too. Of course i am joined by my wonderful cohost Clark Rowenson, the magic engineer, while we come up with a delightful middle grade novel that will teach you about what the heck functional behaviours are anyway. This is an archived ep...2023-08-011h 00
EcofictologyEp 18: How Does Our Emotionally Influenced Magic Work? | Spells & Specialists with Corri Moss-Hunter Part 3Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 18 of the Ecofictology podcast! We are finally at the point in our Spells and Specialists episode with Corri Moss Hunter where we can build out our magic system using Clark’s Magic system blueprint. I love these episodes, this is a great tool and it’s cool to see how flexible it is and how much you can learn about your magic system. In our case, our seed crystal was all about those functional behaviours Corri taught us about and how people are using magic automatically and instinctually which shows us their emotional stat...2023-08-011h 07
EcofictologyEp 17: What Kind of Seed Crystal Does a Therapist Need? | Spells & Specialists with Corri Moss-Hunter Part 2Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 17 of the Ecofictology podcast! We are continuing our Spells and Specialists episode with Corri moss hunter today and finding out what kind of seed crystal would work best to build a magic system teaching you all about therapy and functional behaviours which we learned about last week. It’s really interesting to see how this process is different for every person and Clark and I have a lot of fun digging into the inspiration that we can take forward into Part 3 which is building the magic system with his magic system blueprint. The vid...2023-08-0146 min
EcofictologyEp 16: Therapy and functional behaviours | Spells & Specialists with Elizabeth Corri Moss-Hunter Part 1Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 16 of the Ecofictology podcast! We are back with another Spells and Specialist month of episodes, this time with the wonderful Corri Moss-Hunter who is going to teach us everything about therapy, functional behaviours and something called Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy which blew my mind. Of course I have my wonderful cohost Clark Rowenson with me, the magic engineer, and we really enjoyed nerding out with Corri so we hope you do to. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can...2023-08-0145 min
EcofictologyEp 15: All the -Opias! Utopia, Dystopia, Ustopia and Optopia in ecofictionHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 15 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week we are doing a bit more of a definitions episode and talking about all the various -opias that we come across in ecofiction. Dystopia and Utopia are the most well known and there is a lot of controversy about how much of either of them we need, but then there are some less well-known ones in there like ustopia coined by margaret Atwood and Optopia coined by Kim Stanley Robinson, two big names in the ecofiction world. Interesting differences between all the opias so let’s get in...2023-08-0120 min
EcofictologyEp 9: A mystery thriller to teach you about stars! | Spells & Specialists with Dr. Moiya McTier Part 4Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 9 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week is the final part of our Spells and Specialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier and we brainstorm a story that communicates her wonderful science through the medium of the magic system that we created last week with Clark’s magic system blueprint. I love this story and actually as I am recording this intro, i am working on writing this story so i am DEEP in the trenches of these characters and this conflict so I may be biased but I think this story is really bloody co...2023-08-0136 min
EcofictologyEp 21: Interview with Aël Magnard | The Old Man and the Bird | Teenage Winner XR Wordsmiths Solarpunk Storytelling ShowcaseHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 21 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week, I am SO excited to introduce you to Aël who was one of the winners of the teenage category in the Extinction Rebellion Wordsmiths Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase short story writing competition 2022! His story "The Old Man and the Bird" is published on the XR wordsmiths website so you can check that out! It was such a joy and a pleasure to speak with him and he had such a beautiful way of talking about solarpunk and what it means to him. I hope you enjoy! This i...2023-08-0127 min
EcofictologyEp 22: Interview with Katrina Eilender | City Starlight | Teenage Winner XR Solarpunk Storytelling ShowcaseHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 22 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am sharing a truly inspiring interview I did with Katrina Eilender, another winner of the teenage category from the XR wordsmiths solarpunk storytelling showcase short story writing competition 2022! I have to say, I was so impressed when speaking with her, she has such passion when she talks about the climate crisis, activism and the power of solarpunk and storytelling in general! I thoroughly enjoyed this chat, it gave me so much hope that these kids know what their doing, I think I had a moment in...2023-08-0132 min
EcofictologyEp 23: Interview with Reb Spring | Blood Oil | Teenage Winner of XR Wordsmiths Solarpunk Storytelling ShowcaseHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 23 of the Ecofictology podcast! This is third and last interview with the teenage winners of the XR wordsmiths solarpunk storytelling showcase 2022, a short story writing competition that I was a judge for. This week I am talking with Reb about their story Blood Oil, I really enjoyed this chat, they had such great insights into what the ideal future looks like and I was so impressed with how involved they were with Extinction Rebellion DC! Check out their story on the XR wordsmiths website, see if you’re as impressed with their use of...2023-08-0126 min
EcofictologyEp 24: Book Review: The Best Part of Us by Sally Cole-MischHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 24 of the Ecofictology podcast! Happy Minisode Monday, today I am sharing with you my thoughts on the book The Best Part of Us by Sally Cole-Misch. I thought this was an interesting book to feature as ecofiction because depending on your definition, this may or may not be on your radar. It is a book with a strong sense of place and appreciation for nature but there is no activism or commentary on climate change necessarily. For me, this is ecofiction, it makes you care about a place. Let me know if you...2023-08-0109 min
EcofictologyEp 25: Interview with Sally Cole Misch, author of "The Best Part of Us"Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 25 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am welcoming a very special guest, Sally Cole-Misch, the author of "The Best Part of Us", which I reviewed in this Monday’s minisode! If you missed the review, have a look at that. It was so much fun talking with Sally, I feel so lucky to have gotten the opportunity to connect with her. I think we had a great conversation about sense of place and especially how inspiring that love for a place can inspire behavioural change too, that you protect what you care ab...2023-08-0138 min
EcofictologyEp 26: Batteries and Solar Panels | Spells & Specialists with Navarre Bartz Part 1Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 26 of the Ecofictology podcast! It's time for another month of Spells and Specialists episodes! I love doing these, they are so much fun! And this time, Navarre Bartz talks to us all about energy materials, batteries and what it all has to do with solar panels and renewable energies. I learned a TON! Of course, I am joined by my wonderful cohost Clark Rowenson the magic engineer, check out his channel on youtube if you want more information on magic systems, how to build them, and all that good stuff. We had so...2023-08-0150 min
EcofictologyEp 27: A Seed Crystal of Fictional Quanta and Science | Spells & Specialists with Navarre Bartz Part 2Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 27 of the Ecofictology podcast! The conversation with Navarre Bartz continues in this video of Spells & Specialists. It's time to take what we learned in part one and find our magic-system seed crystal. We had to approach things a little different this time around, but we sure ended up with a good one! This episode is led by my cohost Clark Rowenson the magic engineer, his concept of the seed crystal is so useful and i always enjoy whittling our ideas down to a single point from which our inspiration can grow. This is...2023-08-0148 min
EcofictologyEp 28: A Scientific Magic System for Old Magic and Adv.Tech | Spells & Specialists with Navarre Bartz Part 3Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 28 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week we take our awesome seed crystal from the last Spells & Specialist video with Navarre Bartz and put it through Clark’s Magic system Blueprint! This blueprint is so much fun to play with, we always end up with something unique and intricate, and this time we ended up with a system that can explain both the old magic of earth as well as some crazy advanced technology for a solarpunk setting. You can find the video version of this episode on Clark’s channel, the magic engineer, link...2023-08-0152 min
EcofictologyEp 13: Book review of The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia CadeHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 13 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Monday minisode is a little book review of a gorgeous novella by Octavia Cade called the Impossible Resurrection of Grief and I wanted to give you this short one so that you’re prepared for the Wednesday episode which is an interview with Octavia and I am joined by my good friend Forrest Brown who you all met last week. This book is bittersweet for me as you will find out, i loved it and it broke my heart all at the same time but i can’t reco...2023-08-0113 min
EcofictologyEp 12: What is eco grief and can solarpunk ecofiction help you cope with it?Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 12 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week we are talking about something that comes up all the time in the ecofiction/climate fiction circles that I am involved in and it is of course ecogrief. There are many terms for it, climate anxiety, climate grief, eco aniety but whatever you want to call it, it is real and it can be debilitating and often we talk about it in the context of climate fiction being majority dystopian (which i’m not even really sure is true) and that it is depressing seeing a future wi...2023-08-0120 min
EcofictologyEp 11.5: Book Review of Clade by James BradleyHey ecofictologists and welcome to today’s Monday minisode which is a book review of Clade by James Bradley. This book really brings the climate crisis to your doorstep and lets you experience what it might feel like to live through the coming decades. It's so real and plausible that the story sucks you right in. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy.
Clade by James Bradley https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23307015-clade?ac=1&from_se...2023-08-0110 min
EcofictologyEp 11: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler | therapy session with Forrest BrownHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 11 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am introducing you to my good friend Forrest Brown who runs his own podcast called Stories for Earth and we overlap a lot in what we like to focus on so of course our paths crossed and I’m so glad that they did. We decided to do this episode together because...sigh...some books are too ....much to do on your own. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler is a staple in the ecofiction sphere and I have to tell you, i found it ve...2023-08-0131 min
EcofictologyEp 10: Black voices in ecofictionHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 10 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Monday’s Minisode is one that I put together back in 2020, June 2020 to be exact, when i felt that anything else i had on my list of things to talk about felt out of place and tonedeaf considering everything that was happening around me and in the world. My platform was tiny and it’s still small now but I still wanted to use what I do have to amplify the beautiful black voices in ecofiction. They really enrich the genre and I for one am so incredibly grat...2023-08-0117 min
EcofictologyEp 34: Book Review | My Last Continent by Midge Raymond | SPOILER FREEHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 34 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Minisode monday I am reviewing My Last Continent by Midge Raymond, the co-founder of Ashland Creek Press which I've mentioned before on this podcast. This book has everything, it has penguins, ecologists, the Antarctic, impending doom and a romance. What more could you want? I loved it and I am sharing this short episode with you today so that you’re prepared for Wednesday when I post an interview with Midge where we talk all about her book and what she hoped to achieve with it and ecofiction in...2023-08-0110 min
EcofictologyEp 8 Building a Magic System of Personal Stars: Spells & Specialists with Dr Moiya McTier Part 3Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 8 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week is part 3 of our Spells and Specialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier where we finally build a magic system based on our astrophysics seed crystal of everyone having little personal stars. I have to say, i’m obsessed with this seed crystal and with the magic system we created out of it so i hope you get as giddy as we did. This episode uses the Magic System Blueprint which Clark created and which you can buy for yourself if you like the sound of what we do...2023-08-011h 21
EcofictologyEp 7: Finding Solar Seed Crystals | Spells & Specialists with Dr. Moiya McTier Part 2Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 7 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week is Part 2 of our Spells and Specialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier and we head over to Clark’s area of expertise and find what he calls a seed crystal, which is the little nugget of inspiration that we use to grow all of our ideas from for the magic system based on astrophysics which is coming next week in Part 3. This process of finding the seed crystal is so much fun and Clark goes into lots of detail on his youtube channel, the magic engineer, which is...2023-08-0129 min
EcofictologyEp 6: How stars and planets form, age, and die | Spells and Specialists with Dr. Moiya McTier Part 1Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 6 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week kicks off the first of four parts of our SPells and SPecialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier where we just absorb all the cool stuff she can teach us about the universe and let our brains explode so if you’ve ever wondered how stars are formed, how they die and what a supernova really is, just keep listening. It was a joy to chat to Moiya and I loved stepping out of my little ecology box to learn something new. This is an archived episode from my...2023-08-0145 min
EcofictologyEp 5: Introduction to Spells and Specialists With Clark RowensonHey ecofictologists and welcome to Episode 5 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Minisode Monday is going to introduce you to a little project called Spells and Specialists that I’ve started with my good friend Clark Rowenson, otherwise known as the Magic Engineer over on his youtube channel, which I highly recommend you check out if you are at all interested in building magic systems. SPells and SPecialists is a show where we wanted to combine our love of fantasy and magic systems with our love of nerding out over...well pretty much anything. Throw some science communication in there an...2023-08-0115 min
EcofictologyEp 4: Interview with John Yunker, author of "The Tourist Trail" and co-founder of Ashland Creek PressHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 4 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am interviewing John Yunker, the author of the Tourist Trail and the co-founder of Ashland Creek Press, a wonderful vegan boutique publishing press based in Oregon. If you missed this week’s Minisode where i shared my book review of The Tourist trail, then maybe listen to that episode first so you have all my thoughts, but John will be giving a brief summary of the book if you’d prefer to just stay right where you are. This is an archived episode from my youtube chan...2023-08-0141 min
EcofictologyEp 3 Book Review of The Tourist Trail by John YunkerHey Ecofictologists, welcome to episode 3 of the Ecofictology podcast, this is the first of our Minisode Mondays which i do if there is any additional information I want you to have ahead of the longer episode on Wednesdays. My upcoming episode this Wednesday is with the wonderful John YUnker, co-founder of Ashland creek press, a vegan boutique publishing house that focuses on publishing stories about nature and how we treat animals and they have been so wonderful and welcoming to me coming into this community. John Yunker wrote the Tourist Trail as well as its sequel Where the Oceans...2023-08-0111 min
EcofictologyEp 2 Why scientists can’t communicate, why we need to do it anyway and how ecofiction can helpHey ecofictologists, welcome to episode 2 of the Ecofictology podcast, this week is all about why we scientists find it difficult to communicate sometimes, we why need to do it anyway and how ecofiction can maybe help us with that. I come across this on a daily basis in my job as a researcher and i would love to see fiction and storytelling used more often as a tool to get our message and our passion across to people who are not necessarily in the academic community. This is an archived episode from the Ecofictology youtube channel so you can...2023-08-0133 min
EcofictologyEp 1 Ecofiction definitions and the dangers of categorisationHey ecofictologists, welcome to episode 1 of the Ecofictology podcast, this week is all about giving you the ecofiction definitions that you need to understand what I’m talking about going forward but also to make you aware of some of the controversy i’ve come across with these terms, especially the term clifi. Categorisation is not without its dangers so i thought i’d discuss this with you all. This is an archived episode from the Ecofictology youtube channel so you can find the videos of the different parts over there and the links will be in the shownotes. With t...2023-08-0126 min
EcofictologyEp 0 Introduction to EcofictologyHey ecofictologists, welcome to the Ecofictology podcast, My name is Lovis and I am basically here to nerd out over the fiction that I read and write. On this podcast, we are going to talk all about this genre that I love called ecofiction and how it can be used as a science communication tool. What truly brings me here making a podcast is my love of reading and writing stories that capture some of that relationship between us and what’s happening in our environment, a genre that i refer to as ecofiction. So I hope you stick ar...2023-08-0105 min
EcofictologyEp 30: Interview with Mary Woodbury: author of "Birdsong: a Novella" and founder of dragonfly.ecoHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 30 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am so excited to talk to Mary Woodbury from dragonfly.eco which is an absolutely wonderful resource for anyone wanting to learn a bit more about ecofiction, get some recommendations, keep on top of news etc, Mary has published "Birdsong: a Novella" under the pen name Clara Hume and has several other titles under her belt as well. I learned so much from my chat with her, all about the ways people categorise ecofiction and how the stories themselves should be our focus rather than the...2023-08-0146 min
EcofictologyEp 55: Interview with Cynthia Zhang (After the Dragons) and Mehitabel Glenhaber (The Greenhouse Affect)Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 55 of the Ecofictology podcast! Today I am welcoming Cynthia Zhang, author of After the Dragons, and Mehitabel Glenhaber from The Greenhouse Affect, to the show. I absolutely loved this interview with Cynthia and Mehitabel, I learned SO much! We talk about non-Western fantasy tropes, eco-messaging across media, the power of comics to do climate communication and so much more! I have included links to their works in the show notes so please check them out, i highly recommend! As always, you can find the link to the video version of this interview on...2023-08-0149 min
EcofictologyEp 54: Book Review of After the Dragons by Cynthia ZhangHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 54 of the Ecofictology podcast! This minisode Monday, I am super excited to review After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang, it's an ecofantasy novel that I just fell in love with! It's published by Stelliform press, a small independent publishing press focused on stories about climate change, ecological destruction and our relationship with each other and nature in these times of change. It’s a near future dystopian novella about climate change, it has queer characters, and oh yes, there are dragons. On Wednesday, I will be welcoming Cynthia to the show to talk ab...2023-08-0111 min
EcofictologyEp 53: What is Ecological weird fiction? With Mary WoodburyHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 53 of the Ecofictology podcast! As we delve further into ecofantasy, there is a genre that I haven't quite been able to place: Ecological Weird. Today I am sharing with you an interview i did with Mary Woodbury from dragonfly.eco, a wonderful resource if you are looking to learn more about ecofiction from around the world. You will recognise her from a previous episode, she’s been a great help to me as I made my way into this community and of course she and I started the rewilding our stories discord server, wh...2023-08-0133 min
EcofictologyEp 52: Interview with Joshua Phillip Johnson, author of The Forever Sea, an ecofantasy novel!Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 52 of the Ecofictology podcast! If you caught my book review of the ecofantasy novel The Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip Johnson, you will know how much I enjoyed it and hopefully you are looking forward to hearing from the author himself! I had such a wonderful time chatting with him, he had so many wonderful insights about what fantasy can bring to the ecofiction conversation, how important it is to have this conversation across genres and how the heck do we market these books? You will find links in the shownotes to Joshua’s w...2023-08-0157 min
EcofictologyEp 51: Book review of the Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip JohnsonHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 51 of the Ecofictology podcast! This minisode Monday, i am bringing you my book review of The Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip Johnson. It is an ecofantasy novel that I got super excited about as soon as I heard about it, I think it was mentioned on the Writing Excuses podcast which I absolutely love and all but tripped over myself to grab it once i heard that it had a magic system involving music and had an ecological message. I am always looking for more ecological themes in epic fantasy and this book...2023-08-0113 min
EcofictologyEp 50: Where is all the ecofantasy? Oh...there it is!Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 50 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am digging into one of my favourite genres...fantasy! I love reading fantasy and I also love to write it. Pretty much all of my works in progress and ideas that are percolating in my head would fall into this genre. When i set about making this video I made the mistake of thinking there weren't that many examples of ecofantasy and am so happy to tell you that I was wrong! There's loads! This episode is a bit of an introduction and I really wanted t...2023-08-0127 min
EcofictologyEp 49: Interview with Andrea Dejean | SphinxHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 49 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week, I am doing a short review of the book Sphinx by Andrea Dejean, immediately followed by an interview with the author herself. I really enjoyed my chat with Andrea, her experiences in French Guiana which is where this book takes place gives it such depth to the novel and teaches you so much about the ecosystem, the societal element of it, and the species of sphinx moth that ties it all together. So before i give away too much of it, i’ll just let you get on...2023-08-0146 min
EcofictologyEp 48: Treason, assassination and a senior dragon | Spells & Specialists with Maxwell Farmer Part 4Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 48 of the Ecofictology podcast! In this part 4 of our Spells and Specialists episode with veterinarian Max Farmer, we brainstorm a story using our magic system and keeping in mind everything max wanted to communicate about his field of veterinary science and animal nutrition. I feel like this magic system, maybe more than any we’ve come up with so far, lends itself to SO many stories. We brainstormed one in this episode but i have several others bouncing around up there and i know that Max was quite inspired to use it in a...2023-08-0155 min
EcofictologyEp 47: Animal Bonding and chibi Monster pals | Spells & Specialists with Maxwell Farmer Part 3Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 47 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week is part 3 of our spells and specialist episode with Max Farmer who has taught us all about his work as a vet and animal nutrition, we’ve created a seed crystal for our inspiration to start to play and now we get to dive into building the magic system out of that seed crystal. To refresh your memory, the seed crystal was that people can bond with animals and monsters to gain their traits powers and weakness over time but they must maintain the health and wellbeing of...2023-08-0151 min
EcofictologyEp 46: Evolution and Animal Bonding| Spells & Specialists with Maxwell Farmer Part 2Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 46 of the Ecofictology podcast! It is time to take everything we learned from Max last week about animal nutrition and veterinary science and distill it down into a seed crystal. If you want more detail on what a seed crystal is, either listen to earlier episodes of Spells and Specialists on this podcast or head over to Clark’s youtube channel, the magic engineer, where you’ll find lots of resources on this. I love the seed crystal we come up with in this episode, so many ideas flying through my head already! The v...2023-08-0150 min
EcofictologyEp 45: Veterinary Medicine and Animal Nutrition | Spells and Specialists with Maxwell Farmer Part 1Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 45 of the Ecofictology podcast! It’s that time again, Spells and Specialists is back with another series of episodes, this time with veterinarian Max Farmer and he is going to teach us all about animal nutrition and his particular area of interest, dentistry. Of course, as always, i am joined by my wonderful cohost, Clark Rowenson, the magic engineer, and we had a lot of fun learning all about this and Max, being an author himself, was just brimming with ideas so the rest of these episodes are just busting at the seams wi...2023-08-0156 min
EcofictologyEp 44: What I learned about HOW to write conservation in ecofictionHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 44 of the Ecofictology podcast! This minisode monday kind of wraps up our mini series on Conservation in Ecofiction which I have enjoyed doing SO MUCH! I didn’t include them all here but if you want more recommendations of books that incorporate conservation into their plot, head to my youtube channel, there is a playlist for this series, the link is in the shownotes. Apart from the two reviews you got on here, My Last Continent, The tourist trail and Skydance, books I reviewed on the channel were Three Ways to Disappear by Ka...2023-08-0114 min
EcofictologyEp 43: interview with Dr. Diogo Veríssimo from Lost and Found and On the Edge ConservationHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 43 of the Ecofictology podcast! We are continuing in our Conservation in Ecofiction series and I am INCREDIBLY excited to introduce you to Dr Diogo Verissimo from Lost and Found and On the Edge Conservation! I had such a great time talking with Diogo, it is always inspiring to meet someone who is so active and really makes you feel like one person can make a difference so why not try something yourself? There are many links in the show notes today so be sure to check them out, Diogo has so much going...2023-08-0141 min
EcofictologyEp 41: Book Review of Sky Dance: Fighting for the wild in the scottish highlands by John D BurnsHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 41 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Minisode Monday I am beyond excited to review SkyDance: Fighting for the Wild in the Scottish Highlands by John D Burns. This is a hilarious book that still conveys important messages about land management in Scotland, human wildlife conflicts surrounding the grouse hunting industry, and the push to rewild the highlands, starting with the reintroduction of the lynx.
Since I live in Scotland and spend time in the Highlands, I was immediately drawn to this book and was not disappointed! Loved it, highly recommend! I’m bri...2023-08-0110 min
EcofictologyEp 40: The Overstory by Richard Powers | in conversation with Forrest Brown from Stories for EarthHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 40 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week we are doing things a little differently. After reading The Overstory by Richard Powers, I was at a loss as to how I was going to condense this immense book into my usual book review format. Turns out, Forrest Brown (creator of the Stories for Earth podcast) was too! So we decided to get together for a "little chat" which turned into a 2hour therapy session. This is the most spoiler free, shortened version I could cut it down to because 2 hours is kind of insane. The...2023-08-0139 min
EcofictologyEp 39: Ghosts, secrets and family drama, oh my! | Spells & Specialists with Rachel Rowenson Part 4Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 39 of the Ecofictology podcast! You all know by now that while i love all the parts of a spells and specialists episode, i love part 4 the best. We take everything we learned from Rachel Rowenson about systems science in part 1, the seed crystal we distilled it down to in part 2, the magic system we developed out of it in part 3 and now we brainstorm a story to communicate all of that in part 4. By the end, i was just about ready to drop all my other projects to write this thing it was...2023-08-0155 min
EcofictologyEp 38: Solidifying Our First Soft-Irrational Magic System | Spells & Specialists with Rachel Rowenson Part 3Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 38 of the Ecofictology podcast! For all you magic system lovers out there, this episode is for you because it is part 3 of our spells and specialists episode with Rachel Rowenson and we run our new seed crystal through the Magic System Blueprint, developed by Clark. If you want to have more detail and information on the blueprint, you’ll find everything your little heart desires on his youtube channel, the magic engineer. This episode was so much fun, it never ceases to astound me how different all these magic systems turn out to be...2023-08-0144 min
EcofictologyEp 37: Finding a Fantastic, Theme-Based Seed Crystal | Spells & Specialists with Rachel Rowenson Part 2Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 37 of the Ecofictology podcast! It’s time for part 2 of our spells and specialists episode with Rachel Rowenson, a systems scientist. Last time we learned about system sciences and now it's time to find the seed crystal for our upcoming magic system. I love seeing how people approach this method differently, Rachel is very driven by theme so Clark can adjust how he leads his episode accordingly and I love how flexible it is to meet everyone’s creative process. This episode can be found on Clark’s youtube channel, the magic engineer, the li...2023-08-0159 min
EcofictologyEp 36: Systems science and saving the world | Spells and Specialists with Rachel Rowenson Part 1Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 36 of the Ecofictology podcast! It’s time for another series of Spells and Specialists episodes with my wonderful cohost Clark Rowenson, the magic engineer, and this time we are welcoming a particularly special guest, Rachel Rowenson who happens to be Clark’s wife and has been watching our storytelling shenanigans and wanted to get involved. She is a systems scientist and she’ll tell you exactly what that means in this wonderful episode where our brains explode from all the cool stuff and we collect information that we will distill down into a seed c...2023-08-0149 min
EcofictologyEp 35: Interview with Midge Raymond | Author of My Last Continent | Cofounder of Ashland Creek PressHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 35 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I welcome Midge Raymond onto the show as we talk about her beautiful novel My Last Continent. I reviewed this book on Monday so check that out! We talk about publishing ecofiction, taking inspiration for stories from the world around us and using ecofiction and storytelling as a form of communication to reach people. I had such fun chatting with Midge, she and John Yunker, who she founded Ashland Creek Press with, have been so welcoming to me and some of my favourite ecofiction titles have come...2023-08-0137 min
EcofictologyEp 42: Interview with John D Burns, author of Sky Dance: Fighting for the Wild in the Scottish HighlandsHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 42 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am delighted to welcome John D Burns to the show! He is the author of Sky Dance: Fighting for the Wild in the Scottish Highlands, which I reviewed in the last episode on Monday and absolutely loved! John had so much fascinating information about the highlands, how they came to be the way they are, and what can be done to restore them to how they should be! I learned so much from my chat with him! You can find out more about John and where t...2023-08-0150 min
EcofictologyEp 33: interview with Sally Snow from Lamave: Ecofiction, storytelling and conservationHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 33 of the Ecofictology podcast! Today I am delighted to introduce you to a very good friend of mine, Sally Snow, one of the executive directors of the Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines, affectionately shortened to Lamave. She is a zoologist and filmmaker with a passion for conservation filmmaking and telling stories from local perspectives that often go unheard. I worked with Sally for a year in the Philippines as I ran one of the whaleshark research sites with my partner and it was a glorious experience, I told it very close to...2023-08-0147 min
EcofictologyEp 32: Interview with Francesca Trotman from Love the Oceans: Ecofiction, storytelling and conservationHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 32 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am very pleased to introduce you to Francesca Trotman from Love the Oceans, a marine conservation organisation operating out of Mozambique. If you’ve been around my youtube channel at all you’ve probably heard the name several times because this was the organisation that I donated a portion of my patreon earnings to when I still had a patreon. By the time i stopped patreon, we had donated over £300 to Love the Oceans which I am very proud of. Chess is a friend of mine, we sp...2023-08-0146 min
EcofictologyEp 31: Conservation in EcofictionHey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 31 of the Ecofictology podcast! For the next couple of episodes, I wanted to dedicate time to exploring the power of storytelling in conservation and the representation of conservation in ecofiction. This is something that is very close to my heart and something I would love to see get more attention in the genre! I approach my research from a conservation perspective or at least a sustainable management perspective where possible and I started to notice that some of my favourite ecofiction titles were focused around conservation issues so maybe there was a bit...2023-08-0111 min
EcofictologyEp 29: Nuclear plant meltdown and buddy cop comedy duo | Spells and Specialists with Navarre Bartz Part 4Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 29 of the Ecofictology podcast! This is the final part of our Spells and Specialists episode with Navarre Bartz where we brainstorm a story to communicate all about energy materials, solar panels and how electrodes work using the magic system we created in Part 3. If you missed that, i highly recommend going back and listening to it, its a treat! I love Part 4, i mean i love all the parts but part 4 might be my favourite because we turn it all into a story and it is always a story that is so much...2023-08-0154 min
The Rebel Author Podcast120 Content Marketing and Repurposing for Authors with Amy WoodsEpisode Show Notes
In this episode we cover:
What is content marketing and repurposing
Common mistakes to avoid with content marketing
How to repurpose if you can’t afford to outsource?
Fiction approaches
How to build an audience with content repurposing
This week’s question is: Other than reading and writing, what do you hope to do more of this year?
Recommendation of the week is: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
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Geekoscopy 101: A Science, Story and Play Podcast.Return to Ecofiction! GKSP101 EP028: Mary Woodbury | Clara HumeOn this episode we chat with ecofiction author, publisher and blogger at dragonfly.eco, Mary Woodbury AKA penname Clara Hume. Clara Hume has authored "Back to the Garden" and Mary also heads up a discord server for ecofiction authors known as "Rewilding Our Stories" together with previous guest Lovis Geier.2021-09-1626 min
RESOURCE TALKS#4 - ENVIRONMENT & NATURE IN FICTIONThis episode of the Resource Talks explores environment and nature themes in fiction, with Lovis Geier founder of the Ecofictology YouTube channel and Rewilding Our Stories Discord community, and Octavia Cade, a New Zealand science writer, novelist and science communicator.
Hosted by environmental scientist and architect John Manoochehri, of BASE2 Data + Design, previously at UNEP.
The Resource Talks are produced by Resource Vision, the sustainable architecture and technology studio of BASE2 Data + Design.
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Geekoscopy 101: A Science, Story and Play Podcast.Ecofiction and Science Storytelling! GKSP101 #022: Lovis GeierOn this episode we explore ecofiction and science communication with PhD candidate Lovis Geier (pen name) AKA Rebekka Allgayer. Join us as we explore Lovis' science career and stumbling onto ecofiction while writing her novel.2021-04-011h 05
Stories for Earth: Climate Change in Pop CultureS2 E6: The Overstory by Richard Powers with Lovis GeierI finished reading The Overstory by Richard Powers in late 2020, but every time I tried to start writing about it, I got intimidated and quit. Thankfully, my new friend Lovis Geier asked me to come on her YouTube channel, Ecofictology, as a guest to talk about The Overstory. This book is ambitious, to say the least, with nine main characters (10 if you count a special tree) and spanning decades as it tells the stories of people whose lives have been majorly impacted by trees.
Transcript: https://storiesforearth.com/2021/02/23/the-overstory-richard-powers/
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