Did you know that the Netflix “Skip Intro” button is clicked 136 million times each day saving 195 years in our cumulative lives every day? This is the theme of my recent short play called, what else, Skip Intro. It was recently given a stage reading here in Ashland at the Ashland Contemporary Theatre and … Read more
If you haven’t heard of Vegan Book Club yet, now is the time to check it out — via Instagram. This month, the group is reading The Tourist Trail and Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy.
At long last I am recording the audio book for Oceans. Should be a few months before it’s live but I’m excited to finally be tackling this novel. More soon…
I love watching otters which, to my regret, led me to click on this CNN article recently. It’s about a zoo in Belgium that paired a family of sea otters with orangutans to help keep the orangutans entertained. I can’t say for sure that the orangutans are entertained but my clicking on the photo below … Read more
Monsanto was well aware that its “Roundup 2.0” chemical/seed system, known as Dicamba, would be a disaster for farmers — and soil and anything within the vicinity (as Dicamba get airborne awfully easily). I wrote about this issue in my second novel and I knew back then that this type of information would leak out … Read more
My last post was about upcoming events. Well, we can forget about events for the near future. Such is life.
I’ve got two events coming up that I’m excited to attend… if you’re in the region, please let me know! Margaret River Readers & Writers FestivalMargaret River, AustraliaMay 16-19, 2020 Animal Rights National Conference 2020Portland, OregonJuly 16-19, 2020
This from a sobering research report published last week by some of the world’s leading experts on penguins. The report notes that “more than half of the world’s 18 penguin species are declining.” The three species most in danger are: African penguin Galápagos penguin Yellow-eyed penguin (seen below in New Zealand) The report notes that … Read more
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 … Read more
The cover of the first edition of The Tourist Trail features a landscape photograph of the Magellanic penguin colony along the shores of Argentina, the precise location where the book begins. It was a photograph I had taken and I thought it would make a nice cover. And it did, but it didn’t make a … Read more