Ask the Author: David Chernushenko
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David Chernushenko
The Overstory by Richard Powers, Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver and Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
David Chernushenko
I am preparing to record an audio book version this fall. Simultaneously, I am sketching out the outline for a sequel to Burning Souls. Spoiler alert: not everyone dies, so I have something to work from.
David Chernushenko
Sorry, what is writer's block? I may yet encounter it in the future. But my experience with Burning Souls is the opposite: writer's excess! My first draft worked out to about 1300 pages. Lucky for everyone I had good commenters and professional editing to bring it down to half of that. Still long, but there was so much I needed to tell.
David Chernushenko
As I have watched the natural world (species, climate, oceans, forests) deteriorate over my life-time, and so many people either deny or refuse to face the reality and the urgency, or others look away out of fear or paralysis, I have been increasingly seized with the question of what does it take to get humans to care and to act. Why are we so bad at dealing with big, slow-moving problems? This is what is concerning me personally, and at the heart of the book. Can we make a difference? What happens to us when we try? My book is not a lecture (people hate it when a book is sold as fiction but is really just a diatribe) but the reader will learn a lot about behaviour, science, politics, religion and more. At its heart, though, Burning Souls is a story of courage and integrity in a time of social and ecological breakdown. Sound like the world we are living in?
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