I’ve been in the climate-tech industry for 15 years. It came to me to write such content because I couldn’t find anything worthwhile to read to my own kids. I wanted to write something that was intentionally positive, something our kids don’t hear enough of as it relates to climate change. Aaron Arsenault – 10 May 2024 The Back Flap Super Hurricanes. Raging wildfires. Boiling oceans. As global temperatures skyrocket, a two-degree rise becomes unavoidable. Is the next generation up to the challenge? While people around the world argued, the experts acted. At the Climate Action Taskforce, solvi ..read more

I believe you can’t write well if you don’t read a lot and pay attention to what you read.  Don Silver – 10 May 2024 The Back Flap After his father dies suddenly and his family’s fortune takes a nosedive, Jonas Shore starts selling weed and pills to cool kids at his Philadelphia high school to support himself and his mother; that is, until his hustle catches up with him and he’s sent away to Lafayette Academy. In this testosterone-fueled boarding school for fatherless boys, Jonas learns how to survive. He and his roommates form a tight unit, vowing to have each others’ backs for life, bu ..read more

The story was so shocking and upsetting, I knew I had to try to investigate and find out what really had taken place at the beginning of my life. Patti Eddington – 7 May 2024 The Back Flap Patti Eddington always knew she was adopted, and her beloved parents seemed amenable enough to questions—but she never wanted to hurt them by expressing curiosity, so she didn’t. The story of her mother cutting off and dying her hair when she was a toddler? She thought it was eccentric and funny, nothing more. When she discovered at fifteen that her birthday wasn’t actually her birthday? She belie ..read more

I came back to my Irish love story and saw that it was more like Persuasion, Jane Austen’s classic novel, than I had intended. So, I had a choice to make– turn the manuscript into a real Austen reimagining, or rewrite it as something else. I decided to take on the challenging of retelling my favorite novel, in modern society with a different set of characters and setting.  Norah Woodsey – 3 May 2024 The Back Flap Tildy Sullivan is the middle child in an elite yet fading Manhattan family. Her quiet practicality hides her deep, profound longing for childhood summers in western Ireland. She ..read more

In the end, I felt that a character’s sexuality is such an integral part of who they are it didn’t seem right to shield the reader from it. And besides, half the fun of fiction is that it lets you inside someone else’s head. I plowed ahead and included the scenes. J. Boyce Gleason – 27 April 2024 The Back Flap It is 741. Only one thing stands between Charles the Hammer and the throne – he’s dying. Despite his best efforts, the only thing to reign after Charles’s death is chaos. Son battles son, Christianity battles paganism, and Charles’s daughter flees his court for an enemy’s love. Based on ..read more

The book is dedicated to my grandmother, Nancy, and so much of her lives in the kindness and strength of my characters. She taught me that it’s entirely possible to be fierce and compassionate at the same time, so I borrowed that piece of her to instill in my main character, Kiera.  Christina Bacilieri – 20 April 2024 The Back Flap Magic will transform you. Power could destroy you. Actions will define you. Kiera Vandyer told herself she’d only agreed to this scheme for the money, that nothing else had drawn her to this venture, but you can’t lie to the truest parts of yourself. For sixte ..read more

I enjoyed the freedom of writing a novel, while remaining true to the spirit of the activism that may have, at least temporarily, significantly slowed the spread of fracking in Michigan. Maryann Lesert – 18 April 2024 The Back Flap Once you’ve experienced the devastation of fracking, nothing but stopping it makes sense. After a year of well site visits and protests, four college student activists become determined to protect the people and the places they love. In the river-crossed northwoods of Michigan, Kate, Brett, Sonya, and Mark, mentored by their former professor Rebecca, keep watch as ..read more

I struggled to know what to include as I experienced and witnessed so much. We witnessed the best of humankind and the worst. Janet A. Wilson – 16 April 2024 The Back Flap Despite having everything she could ask for, Janet Wilson couldn’t shake a sense of emptiness in her life or her desire to return to the continent of her birth. After many arguments, she and her husband agreed to embark on a daring adventure, driving 25,000 miles alone across Africa. They couldn’t anticipate how this trip would challenge almost every belief, opinion, and value they held. They collided with the world and eac ..read more

I wondered, “What if suicide was illegal? What if it wasn’t just a moral issue, but a legal one, and you could be punished for taking your life?” Jacob Guy – 12 April 2024 The Back Flap Chester Aldair is a gay teenager who commits suicide, making him a severe criminal. In Galena, technology has advanced to the point where people no longer die from natural causes, and as a result, the government has instituted, “The Age of Volition,” which is a law requiring that everyone lives until they’re seventy-five years old. Once someone turns seventy-five, they can choose how much longer they live for ..read more

I want to write sci-fi and technothrillers for people that wouldn’t normally read sci-fi and technothrillers but have vivid imaginations and like imagining the future! And, as such, I want to make them accessible, action packed and combined with other genres they’d normally read, like crime thrillers and murder mystery.  Thomas R. Weaver – 5 April 2024 The Back Flap SALVATION HAS A PRICE. An enthralling murder mystery with a vividly realised future world, forcing readers to grapple hard hitting questions about the climate crisis, our relationship with Artificial Intelligence and the pric ..read more