Ecofictology

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 38 of the Ecofictology podcast! For all you magic system lovers out there, this episode is for you because it is part 3 of our spells and specialists episode with Rachel Rowenson and we run our new seed crystal through the Magic System Blueprint, developed by Clark. If you want to have more detail and information on the blueprint, you’ll find everything y...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 39 of the Ecofictology podcast! You all know by now that while i love all the parts of a spells and specialists episode, i love part 4 the best. We take everything we learned from Rachel Rowenson about systems science in part 1, the seed crystal we distilled it down to in part 2, the magic system we developed out of it in part 3 and now we brainstorm a st...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 40 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week we are doing things a little differently. After reading The Overstory by Richard Powers, I was at a loss as to how I was going to condense this immense book into my usual book review format. Turns out, Forrest Brown (creator of the Stories for Earth podcast) was too! So we decided to get together for a "littl...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 41 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Minisode Monday I am beyond excited to review SkyDance: Fighting for the Wild in the Scottish Highlands by John D Burns. This is a hilarious book that still conveys important messages about land management in Scotland, human wildlife conflicts surrounding the grouse hunting industry, and the push to rewild the highland...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 42 of the Ecofictology podcast!  This week I am delighted to welcome John D Burns to the show! He is the author of Sky Dance: Fighting for the Wild in the Scottish Highlands, which I reviewed in the last episode on Monday and absolutely loved! John had so much fascinating information about the highlands, how they came to be the way they are, and what can...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 43 of the Ecofictology podcast! We are continuing in our Conservation in Ecofiction series and I am INCREDIBLY excited to introduce you to Dr Diogo Verissimo from Lost and Found and On the Edge Conservation! I had such a great time talking with Diogo, it is always inspiring to meet someone who is so active and really makes you feel like one person can mak...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 44 of the Ecofictology podcast! This minisode monday kind of wraps up our mini series on Conservation in Ecofiction which I have enjoyed doing SO MUCH! I didn’t include them all here but if you want more recommendations of books that incorporate conservation into their plot, head to my youtube channel, there is a playlist for this series, the link is in t...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 45 of the Ecofictology podcast! It’s that time again, Spells and Specialists is back with another series of episodes, this time with veterinarian Max Farmer and he is going to teach us all about animal nutrition and his particular area of interest, dentistry. Of course, as always, i am joined by my wonderful cohost, Clark Rowenson, the magic engineer, and...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 46 of the Ecofictology podcast!  It is time to take everything we learned from Max last week about animal nutrition and veterinary science and distill it down into a seed crystal. If you want more detail on what a seed crystal is, either listen to earlier episodes of Spells and Specialists on this podcast or head over to Clark’s youtube channel, the magic...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 47 of the Ecofictology podcast!  This week is part 3 of our spells and specialist episode with Max Farmer who has taught us all about his work as a vet and animal nutrition, we’ve created a seed crystal for our inspiration to start to play and now we get to dive into building the magic system out of that seed crystal. To refresh your memory, the seed crys...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 48 of the Ecofictology podcast! In this part 4 of our Spells and Specialists episode with veterinarian Max Farmer, we brainstorm a story using our magic system and keeping in mind everything max wanted to communicate about his field of veterinary science and animal nutrition. I feel like this magic system, maybe more than any we’ve come up with so far, le...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 49 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week, I am doing a short review of the book Sphinx by Andrea Dejean, immediately followed by an interview with the author herself. I really enjoyed my chat with Andrea, her experiences in French Guiana which is where this book takes place gives it such depth to the novel and teaches you so much about the ecosystem, the...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 50 of the Ecofictology podcast!  This week I am digging into one of my favourite genres...fantasy! I love reading fantasy and I also love to write it. Pretty much all of my works in progress and ideas that are percolating in my head would fall into this genre. When i set about making this video I made the mistake of thinking there weren't that many ex...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 51 of the Ecofictology podcast! This minisode Monday, i am bringing you my book review of The Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip Johnson. It is an ecofantasy novel that I got super excited about as soon as I heard about it, I think it was mentioned on the Writing Excuses podcast which I absolutely love and all but tripped over myself to grab it once i heard th...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 52 of the Ecofictology podcast!  If you caught my book review of the ecofantasy novel The Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip Johnson, you will know how much I enjoyed it and hopefully you are looking forward to hearing from the author himself! I had such a wonderful time chatting with him, he had so many wonderful insights about what fantasy can bring to the e...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 53 of the Ecofictology podcast! As we delve further into ecofantasy, there is a genre that I haven't quite been able to place: Ecological Weird. Today I am sharing with you an interview i did with Mary Woodbury from dragonfly.eco, a wonderful resource if you are looking to learn more about ecofiction from around the world. You will recognise her from...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 54 of the Ecofictology podcast! This minisode Monday, I am super excited to review After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang, it's an ecofantasy novel that I just fell in love with! It's published by Stelliform press, a small independent publishing press focused on stories about climate change, ecological destruction and our relationship with each other...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 55 of the Ecofictology podcast! Today I am welcoming Cynthia Zhang, author of After the Dragons, and Mehitabel Glenhaber from The Greenhouse Affect, to the show. I absolutely loved this interview with Cynthia and Mehitabel, I learned SO much! We talk about non-Western fantasy tropes, eco-messaging across media, the power of comics to do climate communicat...