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Leeds Point is an overtly eco-political novel set in the coastal marshes off New Jersey in 1702, just a few years after the Salem Witch Trials had rocked New England. At that time, the colony was divided into East Jersey and West Jersey. East Jersey along with New York still had religious-based witch laws on the books. West Jersey was part of the Pennsylvania colony. William Penn's experiment in more liberal governance included freedom of religion, and did not have laws requi

Over 3.5 million books will be published in the U.S. this year, most of them self-published, and most of them with AI-generated covers. Many of them are also written, in whole or in part, by AI. This is just one of a multitude of examples of how AI became normalized in our culture virtually overnight. Even as I write this blog post, Wix's AI is popping up on the screen offering to write it for me. I will never use AI to write my books or to generate my book covers. The covers

https://youtu.be/DVys1kqO-Hs?si=OToYMQEE7Wcx_W5n Leeds Point, the site of my eco-political gothic horror novel in sonnet verse, is a spit of land on the mainland of Galloway, New Jersey, near the beautiful Forsythe National Wildlife Refugue, surrounded by salt marsh and looking across the bay at Atlantic City, New Jersey, where I was born. Salt marshes are ecological Edens, and provide enormous protection to our shorelines from storms and flood--critical in the rising tides a

Pennysylvania Poet Michele Mekel and I had the chance to chat about our upcoming DUAL BOOK LAUNCH of Michele's LOVERLESS BEDS poetry collection and my novel in verse LEEDS POINT, coming from Selking Song Publishing this summer. I hope you enjoy our banter, and look for Loverless Beds and Leeds Point at https://selkiesongspress.com/. We'll be sending out the schedule of launch parties and readings soon! --Cindy Ellen Hill

This summer brings the international release of LEEDS POINT, my overtly eco-political gothic horror novel in sonnet verse, from Selkie Songs Publishing, London. Launch parties are scheduled in London on July 13 and in Montpelier, Vermont on July 28. Check out my events listings,, and more will be coming soon! Meanwhile -- consider being an ARC reader. Get an advance copy of the manuscript (subject to some additional final edits!) if you'll write a brief review when you're don