Books & Books and Coral Restoration Foundation present . . .
CLIMATE CHANGE & FICTION: A VIRTUAL EVENT
with authors Julie Carrick Dalton, Angie Hockman & Claire Holroyde.
Thursday, May 6th at 7:00 p.m.
THE LIVE EVENT IS OVER BUT YOU CAN WATCH THE RECORDING HERE
Books and Books @ the Studios is excited to team up with Coral Restoration Foundation to host a panel of three debut fiction authors whose work incorporates climate change and environmental issues into fiction.
This event will be held through Zoom on Thursday, May 6th at 7:00 p.m.
Julie Carrick Dalton (Waiting For the Night Song – Forge Books), Angie Hockman (Shipped – Gallery Books) and Claire Holroyde (The Effort – Grand Central Publishing) each celebrated the publication of their first novels in January 2021. Dalton and Holroyde have both published numerous non-fiction articles and short stories while Hockman has had careers in law, education, and eco-tourism.
The three authors are members of the Climate Fiction Writer’s League, a group of authors who believe in the necessity of climate action, immediately and absolutely and use fiction to inspire passion, empathy and action in readers.
Though their books span genres; literary fiction, sci-fi and romance, all have embraced and explored the powerful impact that changes to the earth have on a individuals and their story.
In Waiting for the Night Song a forestry researcher is called back to her childhood home to face
up to a long-buried secret. There she must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the people and the forest she loves, as drought, foreclosures, and wildfire spark tensions between displaced migrant farmworkers and locals.
Shipped sets its protagonist in the Galapagos, with a nod to eco-tourism and the benefits of finally experiencing the beauty of Earth on the book’s work focused characters.
The Effort follows people around the world as they unite to prevent a global catastrophe. Based on real-life impact scenarios and inspired by actual event explores the deadly consequences of deliberate non-cooperation between nations.
This event is co-sponsored by Coral Restoration Foundation™, the largest coral reef restoration organization in the world. Founded in response to the wide-spread loss of the dominant coral species on Florida’s Coral Reef the organization grows and returns endangered species of coral to the wild to restore reef sites to a healthy state. Please visit their website (www.coralrestoration.org) to donate and to find information on how to get involved in the important work that they do for the Florida Keys.
This event is free and open to the public though preregistration is encouraged.