Tag: Earth Day

• CELEBRATING EARTH DAY 2025

  

  Fifty-five years ago on April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated. Maybe the word “celebration” doesn’t quite fit here because its inception came as the result of some horribly tragic events—an oil spill and the discovery by a woman scientist/writer of the harm done to wildlife and humans from pesticides. All those years…

  P. C. Zick

  April 22, 2025

  Books by P. C. Zick, environment, Environmental Concerns, Life in the United States, Trails in the Sand, wildlife

  Allegheny River, bald eagles, DDT, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Department of Environmental Protection, Earth Day, Earth Day 2025, Florida Environmental Novel, Florida fiction, oil spill, pesticides, Pittsburgh, Rachel Carson, Santa Barbara oil spill, Silent Spring, Trails in the Sand, wildlife

• TRAILS IN THE SAND CELEBRATES #FREE

  

  To start off Earth Day 2025 week, I’m offering my Florida Fiction novel, Trails in the Sand, for free downloads April 21-25. What does this novel have to do with Earth Day? Everything. Book Blurb: When environmental writer Caroline Carlisle sets off to report on endangered sea turtles during the Deepwater BP oil spill in…

  P. C. Zick

  April 20, 2025

  Books by P. C. Zick, environment, Environmental Concerns, interview, Life in the United States, Ramblings of a Writer, Trails in the Sand, wildlife

  BP oil spill, Cape Canaveral, Deepwater Horizon, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Earth Day, Florida beaches, Florida environment, Florida Environmental Novel, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gulf of Mexico, oiled wildlife, sea turtle eggs, sea turtle nests, Trails in the Sand

• ANNIVERSARY AND CELEBRATION #oilspill

  

  Sometimes an anniversary involves a celebration of some sort. The events marked today are separate, yet inexplicably connected through virtue of their messages. Six years ago today, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men working on the rig and doing untold damage to the environment and wildlife as…

  P. C. Zick

  April 20, 2016

  Ramblings of a Writer

  BP oil spill, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Don Blankenship, Earth Day, Gulf of Mexico, Massey Mine, P.C. Zick, Trails in the Sand

• AUTHOR WEDNESDAY – S.R. MALLERY

  I welcome S.R. Mallery to Author Wednesday today. This talented author recently published a collection of short stories, Tales To Count On with a unique combination of genres, including historical, Gothic, and fantasy—with many twist endings. If you’ve ever read any of the O Henry short stories and enjoyed them, you’ll be in for a treat with this collection.…

  P. C. Zick

  April 22, 2015

  Author Wednesday

  Earth Day, fantasy, Gothic, historical fiction, O Henry, Rachel Carson, S.R. Mallery, short stories, Silent Spring, twisted endings

• Giveaway on Virtual Book Tour

  I’m on a Virtual Book Tour this week with Trails in the Sand  – Visit tour stops to enter giveaway I’m on “tour” April 22-29 to celebrate the forty-third anniversary of Earth Day and to celebrate the publication of Trails in the Sand. At each stop, you’ll be able to enter a raffle for an…

  P. C. Zick

  April 23, 2013

  Books by P. C. Zick, Ramblings of a Writer, Trails in the Sand

  authors, blog, blog tour, book tour, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Earth Day, Kindle, Live from the Road, novel, Route 66, Trails in the Sand

• 777 Novel Day

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Today I’m participating in the 777 Novel project. I’m gearing up for Trail in the Sand‘s virtual blog tour, starting next week on the forty-third anniversary of Earth Day. I’m visiting fifteen different blogs in seven days, which means I’m writing guests posts until my fingers are nearly raw. I’m still…

  P. C. Zick

  April 15, 2013

  Books by P. C. Zick

  authors, blog, blog tour, Earth Day, environment, fiction, Trails in the Sand, writing