Pre-Order Podcast

Terrible Beauty: A Conversation w/ Auden Schendler (live in front of a studio audience)

Buy the book: https://goodneighborbooks.com/book/9781647829759 [https://goodneighborbooks.com/book/9781647829759] Description A firsthand, trench-view story of the failure of the modern environmental movement--and an inspiring prescription for change. Something's gone badly awry with environmentalism. We faithfully separate our waste into different streams, but wonder whether it really makes a difference. Global companies announce their commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring oil conferences. American businesses, communities, and individuals assiduously measure their carbon footprints, then implement voluntary emissions-reduction programs, all while trumpeting their do-gooderism. The problem is, none of this--whether individual efforts or corporate sustainability tactics--will make a dent in solving the civilizational threat of climate change. We only pretend it will, at our peril. As sustainability veteran Auden Schendler argues in this provocative, powerful book, we're living a big green lie. The hard truth is that much of the modern environmental road map could have been written by the fossil fuel industry specifically to avoid disrupting the status quo. We have become somehow complicit. But there is another truth: while ineffective or duplicitous environmentalism has become standard practice, we all have friends and family we love and care about, whose future depends on solving the problem of climate change. Conscience tells us we have an obligation to repair the world. How can our common dreams be so at odds with our daily practice? And how might we meld our spirit and our passion to create a better future? Schendler meets this profound contradiction head-on--with a bracing critique, moving personal stories of parenthood and service, and innovative, real-world methods to tackle climate change at the corporate, community, and individual levels. Terrible Beauty is a unique and inspiring call for a new environmentalism, showing us that the key to saving the planet is to tap into our own humanity. Auden Schendler has spent twenty-five years running sustainability programs at Aspen One, focusing on clean-energy development, climate policy, advocacy, and activism. He publishes widely on climate change, parenting, and the outdoors and was named a "climate innovator" by Time magazine and a "climate saver" by the EPA. He is the author of the book Getting Green Done. He lives in Basalt, Colorado, with his wife and two children. About the Author

Holly Jolly July: Interview with Lindsay Maple

We chat with Lindsay Maple about the importance of bi-sexual representation in the Romance genre, growing as a writer, and navigating the paths to publishing.Pick up Lindsay Maples books here: https://goodneighborbooks.com/search?q=lindsay%20maple

Wreck: A Conversation with Catherine Newman

Pre-Order Here: https://goodneighborbooks.com/book/9780063453913 [https://goodneighborbooks.com/book/9780063453913]Description“Wreck is a delight. What an absolute joy to be reunited with Rocky and her family, the characters we all fell in love with in Sandwich. Newman's prose is laugh-out-loud funny. It's also profound. I couldn't stop reading, even though I didn't want it to end.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Cliffs“Wreck is the kind of book that pulls up a chair, pours the wine, and dives deep—equal parts hilarious, sharp, and achingly sincere. I didn’t just read it—I felt known by it. A luminous, laugh-out-loud triumph.”—Alison Espach, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding PeopleThe acclaimed bestselling author of Sandwich is back with a wonderful novel, full of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn’t go as planned.If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later. (And if this is your first meeting with this crew, get ready to laugh and cry—and relate.) Rocky, still anxious, nostalgic, and funny, is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband Nick and their daughter Willa, who's back home after college. Their son, Jamie, has taken a new job in New York, and Mort, Rocky’s widowed father, has moved in.It all couldn’t be more ridiculously normal . . . until Rocky finds herself obsessed with a local accident that only tangentially affects them—and with a medical condition that, she hopes, won’t affect them at all.With her signature wit and wisdom, Catherine Newman explores the hidden rules of family, the heavy weight of uncertainty, and the gnarly fact that people—no matter how much you love them—are not always exactly who you want them to be.About the AuthorCatherine Newman is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy, the middle-grade novel One Mixed-Up Night, the kids’ craft book Stitch Camp, the best-selling how-to books for kids How to Be a Person and What Can I Say?, and the novels We All Want Impossible Things, Sandwich, and Wreck (forthcoming from HarperCollins). Her books have been translated into a dozen languages. She has been a regular contributor to the New York Times, Real Simple, O, The Oprah Magazine, Cup of Jo, and many other publications. She writes Crone Sandwich on Substack and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

The Best Worst Thing: A Conversation with Lauren Okie

Lauren Okie's debut novel, The Best Worst Thing, hits our shelves on October 14th, but you don't have to wait until then to listen to Lauren speak about her motivations and writing process. Pre-order, The Best Worst Thing today to receive 20% off, and receive a signed book plate and fancy bookmark (while supplies last). https://goodneighborbooks.com/book/9780063432673

Don Martin - Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire

On this episode of The Pre-Order Podcast we chat with Don Martin, author of upcoming book, Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire. We also talk about why JK Rowling is the worst, growing up gay in conservative Texas, and different ways to make a fool of yourself while interviewing an author.. I demonstrate a couple here.