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Let’s talk about Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.

Short Review of Parable of the Sower: Read this book. This is some of the most important climate fiction you’ll ever read. It’s profound, prophetic, deeply intersectional, and an absolutely riveting read.

I’m pleased to announce that my online climate change bookshop is now open for business!

Treesong’s Bookshop offers a wide selection of climate change books. You can browse our fiction and nonfiction sections, search for a particular title/author/keyword, or use our reading lists to help you find the book that’s right for you.

Here’s an overview of what this new bookshop has to offer for readers, authors, local bookstores, and the movement for climate justice.

After considerable thought and research, I’ve decided to start a Ko-fi page and make that the main focus for my future crowdfunding efforts.

Ko-Fi is a crowdfunding site like Patreon. There are, however, a few key differences that make Ko-Fi more helpful for content creators and our supporters.

For example, Ko-Fi doesn’t collect any fees. The only fee involved is the standard credit card processing fee (PayPal or Stripe) that anyone using credit cards online has to pay. Ko-Fi make their money through optional donations and an optional monthly fee to content creators for extra features.

Ko-Fi also has better support for one-time donations and the “pay what you can” / “sliding scale” model. I’m switching to that model so that all of my paying readers get the same basic content regardless of how little or much they can afford to pay. Ko-Fi is also just more user-friendly and aesthetically-pleasing (to me) overall, due no doubt to the fact that it’s a newer and more indie take on the same basic idea.

I’m having my first ever Patron Drive! Become a Patron in the month of May and you’ll receive TWO short stories plus all of your other Patron rewards.

This post explains what a Patron is and why you should become a Patron today.