Sara Hathaway is the author of the 8 Part "Changing Earth" series.  Nothing dry here.  There is plenty of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll to catch your interest. She's taken some of her survival stories to create radio dramas or you can catch her podcast "Survival: Fiction and Facts."  She is active in the Prepper Broadcasting Network and, at times, is taking issue with some environmental solutions being touted.  In particular, she sees problems with solar batteries that can only be created by strip mining the Andes Mountains in Latin America and destroying their wilderness.