I was thrilled to join Lovis Geier on her amazing environmental literature podcast this week. You can check it out here:
At last, it’s ready… on Audible.com.https://adbl.co/2ZINs6j You can listen to a sample here: Ashland Creek Press · Where Oceans Hide Their Dead (sample) Read by yours truly, warts and all. The end result is 8 hours and change long but I lost count of how many hours I spent recording and re-recording these chapters. Partly…
Let me just that I have newfound respect for those who create audiobooks, because after a month of starts and stops and re-recordings I’m happy to announce the audiobook for The Tourist Trail. It’s available on Audible and comes in at just over 7 hours, which by no means reflects how many hours went into…
An interesting article in the New York Times about the rise of corporate intelligence (spying) firms and the lengths they will go to in order to dig up dirt on activists and other ordinary people. I mention this because my next book, coming next year (at long last), is about the role of one such…
I wanted to share this video of Rod speaking at length about his life as an activist. As many of you know, he inspired part of The Tourist Trail. Rod Coronado Keynote from Burning Hearts Media on Vimeo.
It’s a shame what the US government is doing on behalf of the Japanese whalers. Paul Watson was forced to testify in Seattle yesterday to, hopefully, avoid criminal prosecution. Link
I can’t say I’m surprised this day would come. When I began writing The Tourist Trail in 2008 I envisioned the FBI going after the leader of a fictional anti-whaling group. At the time, the US was largely neutral about the goings-on in the Southern Ocean. This was a matter between the Sea Shepherd and…
Just when I begin to think that wiser heads will prevail around the world and whale hunting will become a thing of the past, another country decides to revive its whaling industry. This time the country is South Korea. According to the New York Times, South Korea wants to start whaling again using the same…
Awhile back I started a “best eco-fiction” list on GoodReads. While there is plenty of excellent non-fiction out there about animal rights and activism, I wanted to focus on fiction. Since then, the list has grown as others have suggested books I wasn’t aware of or had completely overlooked. Here are a few titles from…
The Tourist Trail tells the story Magellanic penguin researchers and anti-whaling activists. And though the book is fiction, the stories themselves reflect all-to-real events happening right now around the world. I read this morning that Japan had suspended whaling activities due to harassment from the Sea Shepherd Society. This is amazing news, though Japan could…
Although I’ve been living up and down the west coast for several years, I’d never made it far enough north (or south) see the Redwoods National Forest. Until yesterday. It is a strange feeling to stand next to another living thing that has been on this planet for more than a thousand years. These trees…
I’ve been avoiding The Cove — the Oscar-winning documentary about Japan’s dolphin slaughter. I’ve been avoiding the film because I knew it would be disturbing. While researching the Japanese whaling industry for The Tourist Trail years ago, I learned about what happens off the coast of Japan. I had seen video clips, and those were enough…
Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepherd Society, has been added to Interpol’s wanted list, at the urging of Japan. As this article notes, this designation does not mean Japan wants Paul arrested, just spied on. For now. It appears that the International Whaling Commissions meeting is going nowhere fast, which means Japan will…
An investigation by the Sunday Times reveals that the Japanese whaling commission has been buying votes by using cash and prostitues — all in an ongoing effort to support its whaling industry. This is just another reason for the US government not to strike any backroom deal with Japan for “limited” whaling over the next…
Right now, the International Whaling Commission is meeting in Morocco. In another week they will vote on a proposal — apparently supported by the Obama administration — to end the moratorium on whaling. Granted, the administration isn’t confirming anything, but the news reports indicate that the US is going to give its blessing to Japan’s push to make whaling…