We’d like to call your attention to a couple of upcoming public events featuring our author Joan Maloof:

• September 12, 7:30 pm—Cornell Plantations, Ithaca, NY. William J. Hamilton Lecture.
• September 13, 7:00 pm—SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY.

Please join Dr. Maloof to learn more about the Old-Growth Forest Network and her book Among the Ancients.

Katie Fallon, author of Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird, and her husband, Jesse, had a baby last Monday. Katie writes:

Laurel Joanna Fallon was born at 10:51 p.m. on Monday, August 20. She weighed 6 pounds, 5 ounces, and was 18 inches long. The delivery went pretty much as planned, without any problems or complications.

To celebrate the birth of this little bundle of joy, we’ve decided to put Cerulean Blues on sale. Through Labor Day, you can buy it in paperback or ebook format from our website for 25% off! Just type “Laurel” in the little box when you check out. It’s not exactly a baby gift, but it will make the new mom (and her publisher) happy.

Author Samuel Avery has signed a contract with Ruka Press to publish his fifth book, tentatively titled The Pipeline and the Paradigm: Keystone XL and the Rise of Global Consciousness. Bill McKibben, president and co-founder of 350.org and the author of The End of Nature, is slated to write a foreword. Publication is planned for spring 2013.

Over the past year, the proposed construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta’s tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico has become a major rallying point for environmentalists and a point of contention between President Obama and Congress. NASA’s top climate scientist James Hansen has said that burning the oil locked in Canada’s tar sands would mean “game over for the climate.” The direct action protests led by McKibben in 2011 at the White House resulted in hundreds of arrests (of celebrities, like Darryl Hannah and Margot Kidder, and of ordinary people, like Avery) and caused the administration to change course on policy. When the president announced in January that the application by TransCanada to build the pipeline was being rejected, the environmental community rejoiced, but the victory is likely to be short-lived.

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Our authors have a few events scheduled over the next couple of months. We hope to see you at one. These are all open to the public.

• June 16, 12:00 pm—Anthony D. Fredericks will speak about horseshoe crabs at Cape May Harborfest, Cape May, NJ
• June 19, 12:00 pm—Katie Fallon will give a presentation about Cerulean Warblers, coffee and coal mining at the U.S. Botanic Garden, Washington, DC (Registration required)
• July 21, 7:00 pm—Katie Fallon will speak at the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Davis, WV

To celebrate the official release today of our new book, Horseshoe Crab: Biography of a Survivor, we’re offering FREE book-rate shipping on all of our books for one week. Choose USPS Media Mail when checking out. Buy as many books as you want (if it’s a large order, we may change the shipping method, but it will still be free). Offer ends Memorial Day.

Also, note that the ebook versions of Horseshoe Crab are also available as of today. See this page for details.