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Hey ecofictologists, welcome to episode 65 of the Ecofictology podcast. This week we are chatting with Midge Raymond and John Yunker from Ashland Creek press and we are talking about their new book Devils Island, which launched in September, published by OceanView Publishing. We cover their inspiration, the experience of co-writing with your spouse and using environment as atmosphere in your writing. Enjoy!
Links
Devils Island: https://midgeandjohn.com/
Book events: https://midgeandjohn.com/events.html
John Yunker: https://www.johnyunker.com/
Midge Raymond: https://midgeraymond.com/
Ecolit Books: https://ecolitbooks.com/
Ashland Creek Press: https://ashlandcreekpress.com/
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 64 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week we are talking to a younger audience with our guest, Angela Mills, the author of the beautifully illustrated book Bobby the Brown Long-eared bat. I came across Angela while listening to a panel talk that the Bat Conservation Trust was putting on along with other authors who wrote childrens books about bats. And there were a few children on the call and it was absolutely heartwarming to see them engaging so much. I was excited to talk to Angela about what she thought was important when writing for kids and wanting to spark that bit of excitement in them for whatever species you’re writing about. Bobby did the job. You can find her book on her website and a portion of the profits go directly to The Bat Conservation trust so it’s doubly for a good cause. You can find the link in the show notes. I hope you enjoy.
Angela’s website
https://www.bobbythebrownlong-earedbat.co.uk/
Bat Conservation Trust
https://www.bats.org.uk/
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 63 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I’m introducing you to Kaitlyn Elverson, the engagement officer for Bug Life in the UK, who I found through the talks she gave for Buglife on the folklore of insects and on myth and mystery of folklore in the history of wildflowers and trees. I was fascinated and excited as I always am to find someone who turns to storytelling as a way to find connection to nature. Kaitlyn is also an musician and I will be linking all her various social medias below and i highly recommend you check her out. She sometimes uses her music to convey a particular message about nature, so see if you can spot them. I very much enjoyed my interview with kaitlyn and i hope you do too.
Folklore of Insects
https://www.buglife.org.uk/events/folklore-of-insects-with-kaitlyn-elverson/
Myth, Mystery and Folklore Guided Walk
https://www.buglife.org.uk/events/myth-mystery-and-folklore-guided-walk/
Kaitlyn’s music:
https://soundcloud.com/kaitlynelverson
https://kaitlynelverson.bandcamp.com/album/ep-kaitlyn-elverson
Kaitlyn’s social media:
https://www.instagram.com/canwefollowalice/
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 62 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week you are getting a twofer as my dad likes to call them. You’re getting a little bit of a book review and then right on its heels, an interview with the author, one that i was downright giddy to do. The book? A Murder of Crows, the first book in the Nell Ward Mystery series. The author? Sarah Yarwood lovett, an ecological consultant who has put her knowledge and her experiences into a murder mystery novel. Can you see why i was excited? This book turned out to be my favourite book of 2022, i devoured it completely. And i loved nerding out with Sarah during our interview so prepare to learn a thing or two about bats. Or four or six things. I’m too excited for you to dive into the world of Nell Ward so i’m going to keep this intro short. As usual, you can find the video versions of these parts on my youtube channel, links are down below, i hope you enjoy.
August and September reading wrap up | Monthly reads | Favourite ecofiction novel of Quarter 3!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQTY8cf6eRk&list=PLErvk5p2-eWqIJaGfibZuk8YZvCggE68O&index=47
Bats, bats, bats! | Interview with Sarah Yarwood Lovett | Author of A Murder of Crows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQohlTk_WZc&list=PLErvk5p2-eWoC2qkqDRKjUm-eLzChdx0o&index=25
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 61 of the Ecofictology podcast! This episode was really just a giant brain dump of things that I had been thinking about, lots of ideas and mostly questions about how important is scientific accuracy in fiction. We’ve all had that experience where we read something outside of our field of expertise and think it’s really cool and well researched and then read something inside our field and think, well this would never happen its entirely unrealistic. But how much artistic license could we give the author in order to make it a compelling story? Where do we put those boundaries? And it probably depends on what the purpose of the piece of fiction is: to teach or not to teach? I filmed this collection of questions in two parts but have combined them together here so you can be overloaded with questions all at once, you lucky ducks, and I first talk about fiction where science communication is the goal and something called the CSI effect, and then about fiction that really isn't trying to teach you anything, but might have unintended consequences anyway of not being accurate or realistic. I talk about environmental disaster films and films that demonise predators like Jaws. In fact, I go on a bit of a rant about it. If you’d rather watch me do that than listen, you can find parts 1 and 2 linked in the shownotes. Also, if you have thoughts on this topic, please reach out to me because it’s something i really enjoy talking about! Enjoy the rant
How important is scientific accuracy in fiction? | Science Communication | CSI effect | Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOoOTtKGh_k&list=PLErvk5p2-eWrrcYOqiDbHPufF5XR3sr94&index=20
Scientific Accuracy in Fiction | Anti-Ecofiction | Demonisation of predators | Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKIo0wBY6sw&list=PLErvk5p2-eWrrcYOqiDbHPufF5XR3sr94&index=21
CSI Effect papers
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1163231 https://www.jstor.org/stable/29762978 https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/7381446/stith_roane_the_csi_effect-_us_news_and_world_report-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1645362650&Signature=LBN6D1TpQD7LDReCEI0jrtaty1n6x2NexOD1ARFzP3Rpu7dw~tNid8IToaTdoelXRgS21JZK0lvZ8-J7Jk9VaQWdqULiqz31WJYu4YUI0hi83Fgw0AKTfBw8EoDy13HP0JpVtStAGan10uEkid~jLLwgF0MXDaW-qFolPobH-X3wUftnvGi5kHc8shEKXLj7LpNvhYuquu4FQ0B-~NpeWXOB~pcxpfJsezIl~J9ki2EAZBB5H8khiM6V5SKeEvKF7obE4CjPhXXKgrKUdzAqBvEx~zKanFVyc4MZo2NmIyHQclhD6Y3eAvuLEQ5TsY9xSd7nRQjtaCSGQrpS-ONb0Q__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=themis https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/csi-effect-does-it-really-exist
Environmental Scientists on Vanity Fair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz42l-KZgJo
Article on the effect of Jaws https://daily.jstor.org/sharks-before-and-after-jaws/#:~:text=The%20blockbuster%20Jaws%20(1975)%20provoked,think%20of%20sharks%20before%20then%3F&text=It%20lives%20to%20kill.,A%20mindless%20eating%20machine.
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 60 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am introducing you to a wonderful author, AE Copenhaver, who I had the great pleasure of talking to. This interview is a little different than others I have done because I wasn’t only interviewing her about her book, My Days of Dark Green Euphoria, which was published by Ashland Creek Press, you’ll recognise that publisher if you’ve been around for a while...but i wasn’t only asking questions about that, what i really wanted to talk to Athena about was the strength of messaging in ecofiction. When i first read the book which Ashland creek press sent to me, i was a little unsure whether i enjoyed it because the vegan messaging was so intense, until i realised that it was supposed to be over the top and satirical, more of a commentary on the angry vegan than actually saying this is how people should act. And then it became funny and more powerful. But it was such an interesting discussion and we really enjoyed ourselves, so i hope that comes across here. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you want to watch us have this chat, which i would almost recommend because we laughed a lot and Athena is very engaging to watch, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy
My Days of Dark Green Euphoria by AE Copenhaver
https://www.ashlandcreekpress.com/books/darkgreeneuphoria.html
Finding your audience with AE Copenhaver | My Days of Dark Green Euphoria | Strength of messaging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF2lhOslPYQ&list=PLErvk5p2-eWoC2qkqDRKjUm-eLzChdx0o&index=24
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 59 of the Ecofictology podcast! This is the final part of our Spells and Specialists episode with mauricio garcia and i have thoroughly enjoyed learning about perfumes and smells and all the wondrous things that he has taught us in previous parts. This part 4 is where we brainstorm a story to communicate all that wondrousness to the world and i have to say, i immediately want to write this story. I feel like i say that every spells and specialists episode but i got really excited about this and the story just came together so nicely! We explore themes of coming of age, fighting oppression, finding yourself, and all the while we teach readers about perfumes and smells. It’s fantastic. And of course i am joined by my wonderful cohost Clark Rowenson, the magic engineer, so be sure to check out his channel on youtube for more cool stuff on magic systems and his blueprint method we used in the last part. Get your storytelling hats on and enjoy.
Mauricio Garcia’s website
https://www.herbcraftperfumery.com/about-mg-2020
Coalition of Sustainable Perfumery
https://www.sustainableperfumery.org/
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 58 of the Ecofictology podcast! I’m sure you’ve been waiting for this part of our Spells and Specialists episode with Mauricio Garcia where we build a magic system based on the art of perfumery and our seed crystal of “magically infused perfumes can gently alter aspects of reality as well as creatures, minds and bodies”. What a cracker of a seed crystal! And we do come up with a cracker of a magic system as well, and we totally don’t control ourselves when it comes to not jumping forward to part 4. In fact we finish this part with quite a lot of the plot already figured out so next week’s episode is going to be slightly strange. But of course this part 3 revolves around the magic system which we develop using the Magic system blueprint which my cohost clark rowenson developed and you can find more info on that as well as the video version of this episode on his youtube channel the magic engineer. This part does have the visual component of tweaking the blueprint as we go through the steps so i do recommend checking that out if you’re interested in how it all works. But i think you get most of it just by listening too so i’ll shut up now and let you get on with it, I hope you enjoy
Mauricio Garcia’s website
https://www.herbcraftperfumery.com/about-mg-2020
Coalition of Sustainable Perfumery
https://www.sustainableperfumery.org/
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 57 of the Ecofictology podcast! This is Part 2 of our spells and specialists episode with Mauricio Garcia, the perfumer and aromatherapist who blew our minds last week teaching us all the cool stuff. As a recap, our main messages from part 1 were that smell is form of pseudo psychic messaging, that industry and scent create global connections, and that the process of perfumery is resource intensive and we have a responsibility to do it ethically and sustainably. Part 2 as you know by now is all about finding our seed crystal, which is a concept that my cohost Clark Rowenson came up with to distill all our thoughts down to a single sentence from which our inspiration will take off. You can find more about that and about magic systems in general on Clark’s youtube channel, the magic engineer, which is also where you will find the video of this episode. The link for that is in the show notes along with the link to Mauricio’s website and all that good stuff. Honestly i love the seed crystal we came up with and i hope you do too. Enjoy!
Mauricio Garcia’s website
https://www.herbcraftperfumery.com/about-mg-2020
Coalition of Sustainable Perfumery
https://www.sustainableperfumery.org/
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 56 of the Ecofictology podcast! It is that time again, we are in for another treat and honestly I am so excited about this guest. Say the name of the show, Lovis, say the name of the show! This is a Spells and specialists episode and our guest is Mauricio garcia who is a designer, perfumer and certified aromatherapist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Honestly, the stuff we teaches us about perfumes, how to build them, analyse them, all the different concoctions you make with the plant matter, it will blow your mind. There is so much to know and so much that i’ve never thought about when putting on perfume and i thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Mauricio was an absolute joy, i could have stayed learning stuff about perfume from him for hours. And of course my wonderful cohost Clark Rowenson is with me, be sure to check out his youtube channel The magic engineer to find everything you could ever want about magic systems. And of course the videos for parts 2 and 3 of this episode. But i’m getting ahead of myself. I’ll stop now and let you get on with it, i hope you enjoy.
Mauricio Garcia’s website
https://www.herbcraftperfumery.com/about-mg-2020
Coalition of Sustainable Perfumery
https://www.sustainableperfumery.org/
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Hey ecofictologists, welcome to the Ecofictology podcast, My name is Lovis and I am basically here to nerd out over the fiction that I read and write. On this podcast, we are going to talk all about this genre that I love called ecofiction and how it can be used as a science communication tool. What truly brings me here making a podcast is my love of reading and writing stories that capture some of that relationship between us and what’s happening in our environment, a genre that i refer to as ecofiction. So I hope you stick around and join me as I discover beautiful stories!
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Hey ecofictologists, welcome to episode 1 of the Ecofictology podcast, this week is all about giving you the ecofiction definitions that you need to understand what I’m talking about going forward but also to make you aware of some of the controversy i’ve come across with these terms, especially the term clifi. Categorisation is not without its dangers so i thought i’d discuss this with you all. This is an archived episode from the Ecofictology youtube channel so you can find the videos of the different parts over there and the links will be in the shownotes. With that in mind the audio might sound a bit different because i had a different recording setup but I hope you enjoy
Ecofiction: All the hashtags https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEGlkae9UJE&t=88s
Climate fiction, clifi and the dangers of categorisation https://youtu.be/nYwP6vOgYtQ
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Hey ecofictologists, welcome to episode 2 of the Ecofictology podcast, this week is all about why we scientists find it difficult to communicate sometimes, we why need to do it anyway and how ecofiction can maybe help us with that. I come across this on a daily basis in my job as a researcher and i would love to see fiction and storytelling used more often as a tool to get our message and our passion across to people who are not necessarily in the academic community. This is an archived episode from the Ecofictology youtube channel so you can find the videos of the different parts over there. With that in mind the audio might sound a bit different because i had a different recording setup, audio production did not come naturally to me let’s put it that way. Also keep in mind that these were produced for youtube so if it feels like im talking at a hundred miles an hour....i am. Youre not wrong. Still, i hope you enjoy.
Top 5 reasons scientists struggle to communicate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po1sOwb83EY
Dangers of not bridging the science communication gap https://youtu.be/YaQpw3oT-rY
How can ecofiction bridge the gap between scientists and the public? https://youtu.be/F92OkfcdBjk
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Hey Ecofictologists, welcome to episode 3 of the Ecofictology podcast, this is the first of our Minisode Mondays which i do if there is any additional information I want you to have ahead of the longer episode on Wednesdays. My upcoming episode this Wednesday is with the wonderful John YUnker, co-founder of Ashland creek press, a vegan boutique publishing house that focuses on publishing stories about nature and how we treat animals and they have been so wonderful and welcoming to me coming into this community. John Yunker wrote the Tourist Trail as well as its sequel Where the Oceans Hide their dead, so today I am giving you my book review of the tourist trail ahead of the interview with John on Wednesday. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy
Ecofiction Book Review: The Tourist Trail by John Yunker | SPOILER FREE
https://youtu.be/ndlrgY_Lzcs
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 4 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am interviewing John Yunker, the author of the Tourist Trail and the co-founder of Ashland Creek Press, a wonderful vegan boutique publishing press based in Oregon. If you missed this week’s Minisode where i shared my book review of The Tourist trail, then maybe listen to that episode first so you have all my thoughts, but John will be giving a brief summary of the book if you’d prefer to just stay right where you are. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy
Interview with John Yunker, author of "The Tourist Trail" and co-founder of Ashland Creek Press
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mdAq5Wf9zI&list=PLErvk5p2-eWoC2qkqDRKjUm-eLzChdx0o&index=10
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to Episode 5 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Minisode Monday is going to introduce you to a little project called Spells and Specialists that I’ve started with my good friend Clark Rowenson, otherwise known as the Magic Engineer over on his youtube channel, which I highly recommend you check out if you are at all interested in building magic systems. SPells and SPecialists is a show where we wanted to combine our love of fantasy and magic systems with our love of nerding out over...well pretty much anything. Throw some science communication in there and I am in heaven, really. FIction for science communication is, after all, what I’m all about! We go into more detail in the episode but I just wanted to say here how much i love this project, it brings me so much joy and i hope it does the same for you. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy
Spells and Specialists Introduction | Magic, Stories and Science Communication
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuAHXFvhj7k&list=PLErvk5p2-eWrif1Vn3uDole07p_C4EILb&index=2
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 6 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week kicks off the first of four parts of our SPells and SPecialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier where we just absorb all the cool stuff she can teach us about the universe and let our brains explode so if you’ve ever wondered how stars are formed, how they die and what a supernova really is, just keep listening. It was a joy to chat to Moiya and I loved stepping out of my little ecology box to learn something new. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy
How stars and planets form, age, and die | Spells and Specialists with Dr. Moiya McTier Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7dEMY5V5Kg&list=PLErvk5p2-eWrif1Vn3uDole07p_C4EILb&index=3&t=57s
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 7 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week is Part 2 of our Spells and Specialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier and we head over to Clark’s area of expertise and find what he calls a seed crystal, which is the little nugget of inspiration that we use to grow all of our ideas from for the magic system based on astrophysics which is coming next week in Part 3. This process of finding the seed crystal is so much fun and Clark goes into lots of detail on his youtube channel, the magic engineer, which is also where you will find the video version of this episode. It is not on my Ecofictology channel! So you will find the link to that in the show notes if you prefer a visual medium. I hope you enjoy.
Finding Solar Seed Crystals: Spells & Specialists with Dr. Moiya McTier Pt 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97gvTqVolho&list=PLbLBMlI_GY5K9bywwltAwXjtDZR8h37fI&index=3
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 8 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week is part 3 of our Spells and Specialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier where we finally build a magic system based on our astrophysics seed crystal of everyone having little personal stars. I have to say, i’m obsessed with this seed crystal and with the magic system we created out of it so i hope you get as giddy as we did. This episode uses the Magic System Blueprint which Clark created and which you can buy for yourself if you like the sound of what we do in this episode and think it would be applicable to your own projects. This is an episode with a large visual component, hopefully you can follow along as we talk about the various factors and parameters in the blueprint but if you would prefer to see what we are seeing on Clark’s screen, then you can follow the link in the description to his yt channel, the magic engineer and watch as we play with levers and sliders and such. Its good fun but hopefully you get a lot out of just the audio part of this as well. So, I hope you enjoy!
Building a Magic System of Personal Stars: Spells and Specialists with Dr Moiya McTier Pt 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xag9q2e4Xrg&list=PLbLBMlI_GY5K9bywwltAwXjtDZR8h37fI&index=4&t=569s
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 9 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week is the final part of our Spells and Specialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier and we brainstorm a story that communicates her wonderful science through the medium of the magic system that we created last week with Clark’s magic system blueprint. I love this story and actually as I am recording this intro, i am working on writing this story so i am DEEP in the trenches of these characters and this conflict so I may be biased but I think this story is really bloody cool. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy
A mystery thriller to teach you about stars! | Spells and Specialists with Dr. Moiya McTier Part 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOEVQbEvRag&list=PLErvk5p2-eWrif1Vn3uDole07p_C4EILb&index=4
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