Killing Maine — 2015 Winner for Fiction Killing Maine has won First Prize for Fiction at the New England Book Festival. A private award ceremony for winners will be held on January 30, 2016 at the Omni Parker House hotel in Boston. BUY NOW
The Wilderness Conservation Society has posted a heart-wrenching video 96 Elephants: How Long Can You Listen? If you make it to the end of this one minute clip, you will know why I wrote The Last Savanna. The elephants are part of the African Paradise. Let’s save it.
SAVING PARADISE came in for more praise on the KSFO Morning Show today, where host Brian Sussman said, “A fascinating book . . . I was so taken by your novel because you talk about the wind energy scam like no one else ever has.” So if you think wind energy is “green” or “renewable”,…
Let’s travel some more. The Last Savanna will take you half-way around the globe from Molokai, Hawaii and to the southern hemisphere where Ian MacAdam takes on ivory poaching, which is exterminating our world’s largest land mammals — our elegant elephants. The Last Savanna is now available from Barnes and Noble as a Nook book…
“. . . we must do whatever is necessary to protect our remaining natural areas from industrial development, from strip mines, wind farms, pipelines, transmission lines, superhighways and all the other dreck that’s ruining the last of rural and wild America, but making so much money for corporate America and its fully-owned politicians.” This part…
Grabbing a glass of water at the kitchen sink I noticed a little moth, tan-colored, on the inside of the window trying to get out. I put a glass over it and slid a sheet of paper underneath and carried it outside. The moth fluttered out of the glass and tumbled to the ground. For…
A little girl is pinned to the ground while adults saw off her genitals with a chunk of broken glass. Another newborn girl has her clitoris sliced off at a “Women’s Health Clinic”. The night before her arranged wedding, a fourteen-year-old girl is mutilated with a rusty ceremonial sword. This is Indonesia, a nation of…
Photos by Peggy Lucas Bond. Many of these photos are available on mouse pads, mugs, flip flops, beach bags and other items on Cafe Press. Click here to see these on Cafe Press. Also get a Saving Paradise skateboard at Boardpusher.com. You don’t have to be a skater to want one of these boards which…
Hawaii’s on-line newspaper Civil Beat features Mike Bond and his new book Saving Paradise. Civil Beat’s Joe Rubin features the book as well as the current controversies over Big Wind on Molokai and in rural communities across the nation. Click to watch Civil Beat’s Hawaii Snapshot video.
I went out to the living room to fix the wi-fi and was captured by the sound of my wife playing the piano in her office. Not only was it beautiful and beautifully played, but it made me wonder at the complexity of us humans, how this person whom I love so deeply is so…
