Shawn Oueinsteen

Lincoln said to Harriett Beecher Stowe, "You're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." I am trying my hardest to write the novel that will kick-start the war against global warming. Odds are I'll fail, but I won't. To write a novel takes incredible hubris. All novelists must believe what they say is so important and done so well that the world will want to read it. For this novel, I also have to overcome the lies that climate change is a hoax, harmless, or disputed and fixing it is wasted effort that will cost jobs. Goethe said, "Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain." Forgive my mixed metaphor, but I'm tilting at that windmill, or maybe building them. To beat the billion-dollar brainwashing, my novel has to be impossible to put down, grab at heartstrings like no other, and be persuasive without readers realizing they've been persuaded. In other words, it has to be one of the greatest novels ever written. It will be. Chutzpah? I got that. As research for this novel, I educated myself in climate science, sustainability, and politics. I created a website and blog (with 31 blog entries so far), and connected with 30,000 climate scientists, activists, attorneys, and economists. My connections include Jim Hansen, Michael Mann, Jay Inslee, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gabriel Kra, Roger Aines, Rachel Pritzker, Jake Levine, Amy Aines, Caroline Venza, Ian Monroe, and many others. I correspond regularly over personal email with Hansen and DiCaprio.I recently completed and printed an early draft of my novel and am editing it on hard-copy for the first time. It is coming along far better than I ever dreamed possible. See my writing blog: https://mourningdovenovel.blogspot.com