Caroline Ailanthus
Welcome to the Author of the Week Page, where I set up a project to support Indie Authors by interviewing them and helping get their name and books out there! This weeks Author of the Week is Caroline Ailanthus.
Hello Caroline! Let’s start with what books you have released.
Hi Elizabeth, to date I’ve released To Give a Rose and Ecological Memory
Can you tell me more about your published works?
I have two published novels, plus a third novel that currently exists as a serialized first draft on the School With No Name Blog. I am also the author of the Climate in Emergency Blog.
To Give a Rose explores connections between a community of proto-human, apelike hominids (3.5 million years ago!) and a modern-day human artist who seeks inspiration from their bones. Ecological Memory is the story of a young woman who can’t remember her past, and her teacher, who sometimes wishes he could forget his. Set twenty years after the end of civilization (and the beginning of another one), it explores what happens after you lose everything.
The Climate in Emergency is a weekly blog exploring the crisis of climate change through science, politics, personal experience, and occasionally creative writing. It is politically neutral on all other topics. The School With No Name is a first-draft serialized novel about a non-denominational pagan seminary and the people who live and work there. It explores the intersection between science and magic, a spirituality grounded in the living Earth, and the proposition that it really is possible to create a community based in human decency. Someday, the piece will be re-worked into a series of traditional novels. Right now it is a blog. I’m also a free-lance writer, so my work pops up here and there in all sorts of odd places. Sometimes I get a byline, sometimes I don’t. Keep an eye out; you might spot me.
So let’s learn a little about you!
I live in Maryland with my husband and assorted cats and dogs. I have various other family, too — they’re awesome, but I protect their privacy by not gushing about their awesomeness too much in public. I don’t really think of anything I do as a hobby. I just do stuff. Sometimes I get paid, other times not. Besides writing, I enjoy cooking, hiking, paddling, botanical drawing, and daydreaming. Do those count?
Yup, those count, what got you into writing?
I’ve always liked making up stories and I’ve always liked explaining things. I’ve also always loved learning about and talking about language. Pretty early I figured out that the way to make those activities socially acceptable after I grew up would be to become a writer.
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