Moon Willow Press Announces The Philodendrist Heresy

March 20, 2012 - PRLog -- Moon Willow Press of Coquitlam, BC announces a new title, The Philodendrist Heresy, by Jed Brody, physics instructor at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. The science fiction novel is a call for the preservation and resurrection of the great forests of the earth. Philodendrist means "tree lover." In the novel, heroine Danielle Gasket's search for ancestral secrets is imperiled by warring factions that agree about nothing but that she must die.

Danielle’s home is a dystopian city beneath the earth’s surface. People have lived underground for so long that knowledge of the surface is preserved only in dwindling communities of persecuted heretics. According to the heretics, a prophet called “the philodendrist” led people underground to repent for their violent conquest of the natural world.

Following a string of clues while eluding pursuit, Danielle races toward the long-forgotten path of ascension to sunlight, relying upon her wits and valor to make it through. Finally, her mercy toward her fiercest persecutor convinces him to help her ascend to the pure waters of the sunlit world.

Brody will be donating all his royalties to Sustainable Harvest International, and the press will donate 5% of its sales to Guarding the Gifts, a non-profit that guards the gifts of the Gitga’at Nation and the Great Bear Rainforest. The title goes on sale March 21st, but pre-orders are available now. Those who pre-order the novel may download it for free at Smashwords (available in standard e-book formats). Pre-orders must be placed at Moon Willow Press between March 10-20. The book ships March 21st, and regular orders will be available then.

Reviews

Welcome to the bizarre and chilling world of a subterranean future where all your needs have been anticipated and provided by society’s long dead planners . . . except freedom. You’ll cheer Brody’s plucky heroine on as she makes her break for a rumored heaven somewhere beyond her familiar hell – the very heaven we are now foolishly destroying, tree by tree.
-Stephen Wing, author of Free Ralph! An Evolutionary Fable

With her acerbic wit and unsettled intestines, Danielle Gasket may make an unlikely heroine.  But her arduous journey, from techno-dystopia to a full embrace of the natural world, offers a necessary parable for our ecologically troubled times.”
-Kyle Kramer, organic farmer and author of A Time to Plant: Life Lessons in Work, Prayer, and Dirt

About the Author

Jed Brody teaches physics at Emory University. As a participant in the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, he travels to India to teach physics to Tibetan monks and nuns. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin, West Africa. His stories and articles have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Creative Loafing, Progress in Photovoltaics, Solid-State Electronics, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, The American Journal of Physics, The Journal of Chemical Education, and One Hand Does Not Catch a Buffalo: Fifty Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories: volume 1, Africa.

About the Publisher

Moon Willow Press is a small publishing company in British Columbia seeking to help sustain forests while celebrating the written word. Moon Willow Press is gold-level Certified Environmentally Responsible Publisher, by Green Press Initiative, and a member of Eco-Libris.

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Moon Willow Press is a new, small, independent publisher helping to sustain arboreal ecosystems while celebrating the written word. MWP publishes novels, poetry chapbooks, and non-fiction titles that explore science, nature, and culture.