Tag: Florida Environmental Novel

• 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

• The Threads of a Novel

  It’s been a good month for working on my new novel Native Lands. I’ve mentioned before on this blog that I started this book back in 2006. Back then, I called it Connecting the Dots because that’s what I wanted to do in the novel: I wanted to connect people and environments to show how…

  P. C. Zick

  December 13, 2013

  Ramblings of a Writer

  characters, environment, fiction, Florida, Florida Environmental Novel, historical fiction, novel, Seloy, St. Augustine, Timucuans

• Why I’m Not Participating in #NaNoWriMo, Maybe

  It’s that time of year again when the blogs will be filled with progress reports from writers participating in National Novel Writing Month from November 1-30. NaNoWriMo encourages authors to create a 50,000 word novel during November. It provides author feedback and a forum for cheerleading writers to go ahead and get that first draft down.…

  P. C. Zick

  October 17, 2013

  Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, characters, fiction, Florida, Florida Environmental Novel, NaNoWriMo, novel, writers