Green Shoots Blog
To accompany my debut novel Green Shoots, I blog here on environmental, social and personal issues.
Eco-fiction: a growing genre
When I first started writing Green Shoots, I knew I wanted to write a thriller because it suited my writing style and reading preferences, but I also knew I wanted to write a book that touched on issues important to me. When I showed the manuscript to an agent, she...
The artwork behind Green Shoots
People say don't judge a book by its cover but readers invariably do just that. The cover is often the last piece of the creative puzzle but in the case of my novel Green Shoots, the idea for the cover came about before I had even started writing the book. I’ve always...
Eco-warriors: Turning the tables
Countless conflicts throughout history have been fought over land, but nowadays the conflict is increasingly over our relationship with the land. Indigenous cultures and ecologists revere nature, while capitalists regard it as a resource to profit from. Is the land...
The five stages of grief and the healing process of writing
Losing someone you love is different for everyone but experts agree that for most people there are five stages of grief: denial, depression, bargaining, anger, acceptance. However, it’s misleading to think of these as linear stages. You don’t pass from one to the...
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