Today, I am very happy to have a guest post and giveaway from Joelle Anthony. For now I shall leave you with Joelle's post and come back later with the giveaway. Take it away Joelle.
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About five years ago, my husband and I traveled to the Gulf Islands of British Columbia for our honeymoon. While we were there, we saw an article posted on a bulletin board about “the end of oil.” It was an excerpt from a book by James Kuntsler called THE LONG EMERGENCY. We found it interesting enough to buy the book when we got home to the U.S.
In the book, Kuntsler states it’s only a matter of time before the world runs out of oil. While I found his theories plausible, what caught hold and stuck in my mind was what he called the inevitable long emergency – essentially a transition period between the time when the world runs out of oil and the time when civilization pulls itself up by the bootstraps and creates a new world order.
I actually only read about half of Kuntsler’s book because I found it so depressing and frankly, terrifying in ways (war, famine, disease, etc.). Plus, it was important to me as a writer to create a transition period unique to me and my story. This sent me on a bit of a search for what other people and organizations were predicting for the future world after oil. Many feel like the world will have replaced oil before we run out, others imagine dimmer prospects than even Kuntsler. I took a little of everything I read, threw it in a blender, added my own ingredients, and the world I came up with became the one my main character, Molly, lives in.
I think when you write a book that takes place during a world crisis, it is very easy for the crisis itself to become the focus of the book. For that reason, avoiding an actual situation and using the transition period also appealed to me. I saw this new world as a great setting, for a much smaller and personal story of courage, strength, and love.
Here’s a bit about the book from the jacket copy:
The year is 2041, and sixteen-year-old Molly McClure has lived a relatively quiet life on an isolated farming island in western Canada. When her family fears the worst may have happened to her grandparents in the US, she must brave the dangerous, chaotic world left after global economic collapse—one of massive oil shortages, rampant crime, and abandoned cities. Molly arrives at her grandparents’ home and is relieved to find them alive, but they’re also starving and financially ruined. What should’ve been a quick trip turns into a full-fledged rescue mission. And when she witnesses something that the crime organization that passes for government in their Portland suburb would rather she hadn’t, her only way home may be to beat them at their own game. Luckily, there’s a handsome stranger who’s willing to help.
Alrighty, now for the giveaway, Joelle has very kindly donated a gorgeous signed tote bag with a postcard and Restoring Harmony magnet inside. Because this is a smaller prize today all you have to do is fill in the form below with your name, email address and your favourite dystopian novel.
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