Photo by Barbara Hanson Clark, October 2021 My novel, Polar Deception, is set in Antarctica, a fragile wilderness protected by a treaty and a separate protocol to ban mining. One man is the face of the interests determined to mine it anyway—for a single prize. So when...
In the six years that I worked on my novel, current events often affected the process. Sometimes, my future world needed to be edited, such as when I had to move my global pandemic from 2030 to 2020. Other times, the news was so relevant to my story, I was motivated...
Wildfires have raged across California and other states this summer. But increasingly the effects of wildfires are being felt in other areas of the country. Across the Midwest, the summer of 2025 brought some of the worst air quality in recent memory. Throughout the...
This past week, a friend of mine was driving east on I-80 in Iowa when she saw a massive storm cloud building ahead. Concerned, she called to ask what the radar was showing. I checked my phone and turned on the TV. Nothing. I called back to tell her not to worry. Not one storm cloud was showing in our area. I figured maybe what she saw wasn’t a rain-bearing cloud.