Alon Shalev - The Accidental Activist / A Gardener's Tale

"I would hurl words into the darkness and wait for an echo.  If an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight."  Richard Wright, American Hunger

05/26/12 Speaking in Fremont

Speaking at the Fremont branch of the California Writer's Club this coming Saturday. The venue is the Devry College campus at 6600 Dumbarton Circle, (room 216), Fremont and begins at 2pm.

Topic may well be - Fiction as a Vehicle to Social Justice (but you never know!).



03/24/12   EXCITING NEWS!

Wycaan Master, Alon Shalev's YA epic fantasy novel,  has reached the Quarter Finals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2012. From 5,000 entries there are only 250 manuscripts left.

Stay tuned!

11/11/11 UPDATE:

JUST RELEASED!

Just released by Three Clover Press, A Gardener's Tale comes with a great cover by Claudia McKinney, the artist who designed Amanda Hockings' book covers.

Currently released in ebook form (paperback due next year) at the special price of $2.99, A Gardener's Tale has gone through an overhaul with a professional editor.

It might not be leaner and meaner, but it is tighter and lighter!

For more details on the novel, please click here.

10/01/11 UPDATE:

 November - Virtual Book Tour. A whirlwind tour across the US and Canada, all without leaving the People's Republic of Berkeley! The tour organizer is Premier Book Tours. For Tour details, click here.

January - the release of Unwanted Heroes. More details in November.

Finally, thank you to everyone who voted for Left Coast Voices for CBS San Francisco's Most Valuable Blog. We didn't win, but it was an honor to nominated.

Thank you to Roger ingalls and Tom Rossi who continue to provide high-level and provocative material.

The Accidental Activist is a political courtroom confrontation between a multi-national corporation and two young activists who manage to defend themselves using a new and emerging tool – the Internet.

The Accidental Activistis a fictional drama that closely parallels the famous McDonalds libel case, which captivated England through the 1990’s.  But it is also the transformation of a self-absorbed computer yuppie, motivated to act first by love and then by a belief in a better world.

A Gardener’s Tale provides a rare glimpse into the fast disappearing world of rural England and the ties that tenuously link the people and the land.  A description of the Pagan lifestyle, its struggle with the Church, and the love that can heal a family decimated by tragedy, and a village cast adrift by waves of modernization.  

Moreover, A Gardener’s Tale demonstrates that people can reach their full potential, even when not fitting into society’s strict social frameworks.

Writing for a Better World

I have been writing for 10 years.  A political activist since my early teens, I strive through my writing to highlight social and political injustice, and to inspire action for change. 

In a writing workshop, I once heard the phrase: transformational fiction. It never caught on, but I would like to fly its flag.