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Solid, Broken, Changing is officially a best “seller” on three genre lists in Kindle’s free store. With over 1,900 (free) downloads last week, it listed as #1 in Teen and Young Adult Sci-Fi Action and Adventure eBooks, #1 in Teen and Young Adult Coming of Age Fiction, and #1 in Children’s Action and Adventure Sci-Fi.
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wayfindr, as in: navigator of planetary-scale waves of change, on the fly +punk, as in: it’s a messy churn of co-existence all the way down In 2017, Author Alexandra Rowland coined the term “hopepunk.” She used it to describe stories and states of mind that are, as she put it, “the opposite of grimdark.” She
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Examples of wayfindrpunk Scifi: All of Becky Chambers‘ books. I can see why people read Becky Chambers’ work as hopepunk. But I think that sells her accomplishments short. Her wayfarers have leveled up from hopepunk to wayfindrpunk. They take for granted that the universe is genuinely queer. They greet mind-bending difference and danger-filled surprises with unflappable
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Summer, 2023. Nearly 4 years after the global pandemic began. Solid, Broken, Changing‘s launch was still on hold. Then I read Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild Built. And every other book she wrote. Becky’s style of sci fi fantasy was a revelation to me. To others as well it seems. Fantasy writer Alexandra Roland
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December, 2019. I pressed “publish” on Solid, Broken, Changing. And…yup. We all know what happened next. All launch efforts were scrubbed, replaced by efforts to shore up what was solid in life, repair or let go of what was broken, and move as gracefully in accord with what was seriously changing. I had thought that Kally,
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Loved it! 😍 “Rich and robust, this expertly crafted sci fi/dystopian novel will have you turning pages until the very end.“ SYNOPSIS Kally, aka the human antenna, sensed it coming. Planet Earth was shifting under her feet. So was her family. But she never imagined that their tipping points would let go this soon—and this
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Writing Solid, Broken, Changing was a way to process my experiences of art-based field research in the Anthropocene. Much of the inspiration for its story came from 15 years of collaborative art-making with Jamie Kruse, as smudge studio. The book was in rough outline in the 2000-teens. Journalists had just begun to explain the word
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I’m thrilled to say that Tom, one the hero-of-the-planet librarians and cataloguer at the Provincetown MA public library, is at this moment cataloguing and shelving copies of Solid, Broken, Changing in the Young Adult and Cape Cod Collections! Tom and the Ptown library were indispensable to the writing of the book. They gave me a great YA
Elizabeth Ellsworth 