#solarpunkbook

- It’s in rough draft, 30,000 words so far

- It’s extremely important that you follow these instagrams: @thecarboncoast​ @photosynth.media and @photosynth.music so that when I apply for a publisher of the book, they see how big the following is. Tumblr doesn’t show that, so I need to focus more on connecting with you all over on Insta, Twitter, etc!

- I have found a co-contributor. An astrophysicist who will make sure the science and physics going on are as accurate as possible (because things are VERY different on planet Earth in The Carbon Coast story)

Excited to announce my working with Justin Donaldson Art who will be painting concept art for The Carbon Coast series. Justin’s previous work already showed a lot of the characteristics great Solarpunk/Lunarpunk art would call for, especially in his series of art called The Unforgotten Forest.

Justin is confident he’ll capture my vivid imagination when illustrating the gorgeous scenes of the solarpunk/lunarpunk story that is The Carbon Coast.

Updates of his work will be shown to patrons at different tiers on The Carbon Coast Patreon, which will launch very soon!

The art he and other concept artists complete is then animated by Claire from ASMR Rooms to become relaxing, immersive videos that my top-tier Patreon supporters will see long before the public does as a special perk of supporting The Carbon Coast early on!

I’ve begun putting together a Wiki database of all of my Carbon Coast world-building elements, such as characters, settings, important events, etc. This will include spoilers and things that characters might not even know about, as it’s meant to be a complete knowledge database for anything related to my “universe”

I want to note, though, that my “universe” is all contained on Planet Earth and is set entirely on kind-of-near-future versions of modern day, real-world locations. So when I say “The Carbon Coast Universe” I mean “Solarpunk planet Earth in the near future.” The only real differences are the magic realism elements that we probably wouldn’t see to that degree in the near future, but are still kept to a fairly plausible degree on the suspension of disbelief scale.

What I’m saying is that, I’m doing what any author would love to do: build their own universe for fans to indulge in, but not in a way that takes away from the real, serious need for Solarpunk as a movement and as a story which can help imagine a real implementation of it without too much unrealistic daydreaming to get in the way and make people think it’s an impossible future that’s just a masturbatory fantasy.

Because it’s not. Go save the world. Authors like me are just trying to inspire you to do it with sparkly, dazzly fiction that excites you, but don’t wait for the book to go make Solarpunk future a real one!

I’m participating in National Novel Writing Month 2017 

and using it as motivation to complete my Solarpunk book even faster! Anyone else in the Solarpunk-o-sphere want to be buddies on NaNoWriMo? Message me, let’s prep for November together!

BIG UPDATES:

- I have a new, FUN, and honestly kinda Solarpunk way of tracking my word count for my novel called “4TheWords” — it’s basically a writing project tracker that’s a fantasy RPG game where you battle “word count monsters” for loot and try to level up and complete special quests!

- I won a NaNoWriMo contest which granted me 1 year of 4TheWords, so naturally I’m gonna use this to track my writing through NaNoWriMo month, and I’m loving it so far! The screenshots should give you a good idea

- Now would also be a good time to announce that I’ll be writing a Solarpunk short story for the Glass & Gardens Solarpunk Anthology, and this short story is an extensive prologue to my full novel The Carbon Coast. The short story is set at a summer camp version of the academy which the protagonist of The Carbon Coast attends yearly. It’s called Cambium Academy, and it’ll be a setting of both the short story and the full novel.