Introducing GRACE AND THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
Here's my latest novel! Cover by Michael Kress-Russick When I started writing it ten years ago, I needed hope. Nature had always restored me. Only the reason I needed hope was because Nature itself was under siege. Floods, fires, loss of species, drought were all part of an environmental crisis. The situation seemed overwhelming. If I felt that way, I knew kids would too. But what could I do? What could a kid do? Then I realized that I wasn't powerless. I could tell a story. The novelist Richard Powers said: "The best arguments in the world won't change a single person's point of view. The only thing that can do that is a good story." Stories connect to our emotions. Abstract concepts are easy to dismiss. Characters aren't. Especially characters who care deeply about something. (It also helps if they're funny.) So...meet Grace. As the novel begins, she's getting ready for a dance recital. Unfortunately, every time she tries to leap, she falls. ...
