Ducks Redux: Fueling Flames in Oil Land

by Lorene Shyba, Cd Evans, Rich Theroux

Ducks Redux is a Y/A RomCom about Maeve Wong, an environmentalist who gets caught up in a bizarre revolution with unscrupulous lawyers and oil barons who plan to take over the government so they can build the Freedom North Pipeline. One love of Maeve’s life lusts for activism and justice, the other for resource exploitation at all cost. She needs to decide whose side she is on. The action and characters in this story first took flight in the savagely satirical 2012 title by the same authors entitled, "5000 Dead Ducks." Ducks Redux: Fueling Flames in Oil Land is a Y/A RomCom reworking of this original story.

“... (About 5000 Dead Ducks) A masterfully crafted satire weaving together two hot topics: politics and the oilsands.”
— Calgary Herald

192 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2019

About the author

Lorene Shyba MFA PhD is publisher and creative director at Durvile & UpRoute Books. The print, audio, and ebook series that she oversees are Durvile's True Cases and Reflections series, and UpRoute's Every River Lit and Ways of Light series. She edits the Indigenous Spirit of Nature series alongside Raymond Yakeleya. Lorene has worked professionally in book and magazine publishing for over three decades, with expertise in writing and editing, print and web design, and audiobook production. Her doctoral degree from the University of Calgary is in interactive media and and she has served on the faculty in departments of creative arts, communications, and computer science at the University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge, Montana Tech, and McMaster University. Lorene lives and works in the foothills of the Rockies with the right mix of modern tech to stay in touch with authors and colleagues, and the right mix of nature, people, and dogs to stay chill.