Ecofictology

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 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 communication and so much more! I have included links to their works in the show notes so please check them out, i highly recommend! As always, you can find the link to the video version of this interview on my youtube channel in the show notes, that is the edited version to make it match more the length that youtube viewers are willing to sit and watch but i have given you the full version here on the podcast, one of the reasons I wanted to start this podcast in the first place! I hope you enjoy

Interview with Cynthia Zhang (After the Dragons) and Mehitabel Glenhaber (The Greenhouse Affect)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqSGJsYVLak&list=PLErvk5p2-eWoC2qkqDRKjUm-eLzChdx0o&index=20 

Cynthia Zhang https://linktr.ee/czhang 

After the Dragons https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/cynthia-zhang-after-the-dragons/ 

ARG game http://www.patrickjagoda.com/projects/terrarium 

Mehitabel's website https://www.mehitabelglenhaberart.com/comics 

Greenhouse Affect https://greenhouseaffect.tumblr.com/ 

Future Myopia https://reallifemag.com/future-myopia/ 

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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 and nature in these times of change. It’s a near future dystopian novella about climate change, it has queer characters, and oh yes, there are dragons. On Wednesday, I will be welcoming Cynthia to the show to talk about her novella and we will also be joined by Mehitabel Glenhaber of the Greenhouse Affect so check back in for that! 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

After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang | Ecofiction Book Review | SPOILER FREE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPFJvg6uUO0&list=PLErvk5p2-eWqIJaGfibZuk8YZvCggE68O&index=37 

After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang: https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/cynthia-zhang-after-the-dragons/ 

Stelliform Press website: https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/books/ 

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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 a previous episode, she’s been a great help to me as I made my way into this community and of course she and I started the rewilding our stories discord server, which you’ll find a link to in the show notes. She has done much more digging into what ecological weird fiction is, and has even written some of it herself and written articles on the subject, so I thought I'd better get her back on the channel to discuss this topic! This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes and I have listed lots of resources and links to the books she mentions in the description of that youtube video, more than I can include here so if you want a particular link, go and find that video and hopefully i have included it there. I hope you enjoy

Resources: Weird fiction on dragonfly.eco 's database https://dragonfly.eco/category/books/eco/weird-fiction/ 

What is Ecological weird fiction? With Mary Woodbury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AjqflhhyUs&list=PLErvk5p2-eWoC2qkqDRKjUm-eLzChdx0o&index=15 

Weird fiction on dragonfly.eco 's database

https://dragonfly.eco/category/books/eco/weird-fiction/ 

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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 ecofiction conversation, how important it is to have this conversation across genres and how the heck do we market these books? You will find links in the shownotes to Joshua’s website and to his books, since the second in the series, The Endless Song, has been published now too. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer to see as well as hear Joshua talking about his books, you can find the link in the shownotes as well. I hope you enjoy

Interview with Joshua Phillip Johnson, author of The Forever Sea, an ecofantasy novel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0r1Xc2Ieos&list=PLErvk5p2-eWoC2qkqDRKjUm-eLzChdx0o&index=18 

The Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip Johnson

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53285570-the-forever-sea 

The Endless Song by Joshua Phillip Johnson

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60224574-the-endless-song?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=6ZAcAcvUwy&rank=5 

Author's website

https://www.joshuaphillipjohnson.com/ 
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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 that it had a magic system involving music and had an ecological message. I am always looking for more ecological themes in epic fantasy and this book has pirates, monsters, a cool magic system, and water shortages due to finite resources. It’s perfect for me. This wednesday coming up, I will be sharing my interview with the author, Joshua Phillip Johnson, which was so much fun, he was great to talk to, so check back in on wednesday if you want to know more. As I am posting this on the podcast, the second book in the series, The Endless Song, has been published so you don’t even have to wait between book 1 and 2, you can just follow Kindred’s journey. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. The one I posted there was the edited, highlight reel version as it were, but this is the interview in full so I hope you enjoy.

The Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip Johnson

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53285570-the-forever-sea 

Author's website

https://www.joshuaphillipjohnson.com/ 

Ecofiction Book Review | The Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip Johnson | SPOILER FREE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3NcO0LMGPg&list=PLErvk5p2-eWqIJaGfibZuk8YZvCggE68O&index=35 

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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 examples of ecofantasy and am so happy to tell you that I was wrong! There's loads! This episode is a bit of an introduction and I really wanted to address the issue that some people have, thinking that fantasy isn't a "serious" genre because it is escapist. What's wrong with ecapism?! And I don't agree that it hinders the genre at all in being able to send some really important messages! 

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

Where is all the ecofantasy? Oh...there it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NECdUor-vEs&list=PLErvk5p2-eWrXVSX7CA8F43XjQV9W50z4&index=1 

Ecologists in fantasy: where are they?? How can they be used in ecofantasy?

https://youtu.be/EJPTtFTC6Co 

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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 societal element of it, and the species of sphinx moth that ties it all together. So before i give away too much of it, i’ll just let you get on with it. This episode is one of the last that I posted on my channel, I think, so you can just about still catch the video version of this interview over on the ecofictology youtube channel. I hope you enjoy

Find the book at Middle Creek Publishing:

https://www.middlecreekpublishing.com/sphinx 

My FAVOURITE ecofiction novel in 2022 | Reading roundup October, November AND December

https://youtu.be/AdR1EvC3OeQ  

Interview with Andrea Dejean | Author of Sphinx

https://youtu.be/_zrOdyptwic

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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, lends itself to SO many stories. We brainstormed one in this episode but i have several others bouncing around up there and i know that Max was quite inspired to use it in a project himself. And that is really rewarding, i would so love to have several stories using the same seed crystal, the same magic system, but be wildly different in plot and character. So if you, dear listener, feel inspired by one of the seed crystals or magic systems we create in these episodes, please feel free to take them and run with them, all we ask is that you tell us about it so we can gush about it. We do these episodes to inspire as well as to communicate so if they have done that for you, please do let us know! The video version of this episode can be found on my youtube channel if you prefer the visual medium, and you can find the link in the shownotes. I do show the storytelling chart on screen with the character, conflict, goal stakes and action columns but really, i dont think you need them to follow along. I hope you enjoy.

Find and Follow Max at... 

His website: https://www.maxwellfarmer.com/ 

On Discord: https://discord.gg/DEdypYwn47 

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maxwellfarmerauthor/ 

And On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Maxwell-Farmer/author/B0865Q4VF4?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true 

Treason, assassination and a senior dragon | Spells & Specialists with Max Farmer Part 4

https://youtu.be/2-kWxbyfU_k 

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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 crystal was that people can bond with animals and monsters to gain their traits powers and weakness over time but they must maintain the health and wellbeing of their bonded, so you can already probably imagine that we had heaps and heaps of fun using the Magic System Blueprint, created by my cohost Clark, the magic engineer, to develop a magic system around it. As with all the part 3’s, this episode has a visual component, we play with levers and dials on Clark’s screen showing the blueprint, so if you want to follow along visually, you will find a link to the video on clark’s youtube channel in the show notes. However, i think you will be able to follow along just fine with the audio. Let’s build a magic system! I hope you enjoy

Find and Follow Max at... 

His website: https://www.maxwellfarmer.com/ 

On Discord: https://discord.gg/DEdypYwn47 

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maxwellfarmerauthor/ 

And On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Maxwell-Farmer/author/B0865Q4VF4?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true 

The Magic Blueprint for Our Chibi-Menagerie || Spells & Specialists w/ Max Farmer Pt 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siH4GwApTEY&list=PLbLBMlI_GY5K9bywwltAwXjtDZR8h37fI&index=19&t=140s 

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