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Authors Team up to Fight Oil with Ink
Book View Café to publish benefit anthology for Gulf relief
(National), July 6, 2010 — As millions of gallons of oil
continue to spill into the Gulf, writers across the nation are teaming up to
fight the devastation with art. BREAKING WAVES: An Anthology for Gulf Coast
Relief will be released from Book View Café on September 15th.
“I was devastated by the disaster,” says Tiffany Trent,
editor-in-chief for the anthology. A Young Adult and nature writer, Trent
conceived of the anthology as a way for writers to assist in the environmental
clean-up and recovery. “I knew the most important thing I could do was to bring
hope. And the best way I know how to do that is through writing.”
The collection will feature stories by a wide range of
best-selling and award-winning authors, including a previously-unpublished poem
from Nebula and Hugo award-winner Ursula K. Le Guin, as well as a chapter from
Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking book The Sea Around Us. Also included are stories of environmental rescue
and recovery from Vonda McIntyre, Judith Tarr, and Deborah Ross. Phyllis Irene
Radford will assist with the editing.
Book View Café (http://www.bookviewcafe.com), the Internet’s
largest professional author cooperative, will be handling the anthology’s
production and distribution, ensuring it will be ready-to-read for the latest
generation of e-readers and cell phones. Before taking on the Breaking Waves
project, Book View Café produced several other original anthologies, including
the original “The Shadow Conspiracy,” which contains “The Persistence of
Souls,” nominated for this year’s Sidewise Award.
“We are delighted to put our experience to work for this
important project,” said Sarah Zettel, an award-winning science fiction author
and managing director of Book View Café. “What’s happening in the Gulf affects
all of us, and we all need to do what we can to help alleviate the burden on
the people and the environment.”
One hundred percent of the anthology’s proceeds will go to
the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund of the Greater New Orleans Foundation.
