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Flowers for Gaia Releases May 9th!


It gives me great pleasure to share that we have our first dystopian YA coming out with J. D. Grant's debut novel, Flowers for Gaia, on May 9th.

Call her Earth, or call her Gaia, years from now, our planet is almost uninhabitable as a result of worldwide environmental chaos and war. In the middle of the ocean, two small, conjoined islands still thrive and serve as home to a unique population of survivors, the Wiconi. These peaceful, agrarian-based islanders have genetically evolved affinities that allow them to influence earth, water, air, and fire, talents they use to protect and aid the Earth Mother. They are her Guardians.

“Flowers for Gaia is a needed book that will entertain and educate youth with its engaging tale of superpowered people literally moving the earth. Grant's story respects young readers' capacity for nuanced and complex realities. This tale, set in the future, parallels our own timeline—its colonial and neo-colonial destruction of the environment—yet is also its own, well-constructed reality, a world built on science, magic, and a great love and respect for life. Like in our world, Grant's characters must learn an appreciation for technology's power, its capacity to damage or to carefully build. They in turn teach us that our only hope is in a reconciliatory understanding of Indigenous world views and science.” – Chris Benjamin, author of The Art of Forgiveness

We're looking forward to launching our virtual book tour soon as release day approaches. We will add more details as reviewers come on board and reviews, interviews and author guest posts are scheduled. In the meantime, Flowers for Gaia is available for pre-order now on Woozles, Amazon, Indigo/Chapters, Barnes & Noble. More retailers coming online soon! 

Author John David Grant is a lifelong fan of science fiction, fantasy, and the paranormal, be it in books,
J.D. Grant
cartoons, movies, video games, or comics. A forty-year career working in health care—as a medical officer in the Canadian Air Force (Portage la Prairie, MB), a general practitioner in Cape Breton (NS), a pediatrician in both Sydney (NS) and Kentville (NS), and a pediatric emergency physician at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax—predates this second career as a writer and novelist. Flowers for Gaia is his first published novel, but others are en route. “Creating a fantasy world and a meaningful story filled with characters that breathe is both a daunting and thrilling undertaking,” says John. “Being able to share this with readers is even more amazing.” John and his wife live in the beautiful Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia.  

Learn more about John on his OC Publishing author page at https://ocpublishing.ca/john-grant 
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