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John Yunker

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UPDATE: John Yunker is co-author (with Midge Raymond) of the mystery DEVILS ISLAND, coming in September 2024 from Oceanview Publishing.

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John Yunker is a writer of plays, short stories and novels focused on human/animal relationships.

He is co-founder of Ashland Creek Press, a vegan-owned publisher devoted to environmental and animal rights literature. He is author of the novel The Tourist Trail and the sequel Where Oceans Hide Their Dead.

His full-length play Meat the Parents was a finalist at the Centre Stage New Play Festival (South Carolina) and semi-finalist in the AACT new play contest. Species of Least Concern was a finalist in the Mountain Playhouse Comedy Festival. His short play, Little Red House, was published in the literary j ...more

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	The Tourist Trail 3.62 avg rating — 487 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Among Animals: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction (Among Animals, #1) by John Yunker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Diane Lefer (Goodreads Author), Jean Ryan (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where Oceans Hide Their Dead (Across Oceans, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 38 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Think Outside the Country: A Guide to Going Global and Succeeding in the Translation Economy 4.40 avg rating — 25 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing for Animals: New perspectives for writers and instructors to educate and inspire 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Among Animals 2: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction (Among Animals, #2) by John Yunker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sascha Morrell, JoeAnn Hart (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Savvy Client's Guide to Translation Agencies: How to find the right translation agency the first time really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of the Global Gateway: Strategies for Successful Multilingual Navigation 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Among Animals 3: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction (Among Animals, #3) by John Yunker (Goodreads Author), Nadja Lubiw-Hazard (Goodreads Author), Diane Lefer (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Welcome to Devils Island

In 2018, Midge and I visited Maria Island, a small island off the coast of a much-larger island, Tasmania.

That trip inspired a novel. A mystery. An eco-mystery, to be more specific. One inspired by the Tasmanian devils.

I’m so excited to see this book out in the world. And we too will be getting out into the world, visiting Portland, Seattle, St. Lous and San Diego in the months ahead. For a li

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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

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John’s Quotes

“I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.”
― Troy Kennedy Martin

tags: evil, trust

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“We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Foe

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“We grieve only for what we know.”
― Aldo Leopold

tags: environementalism

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“For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

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“Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

tags: education

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