Ring of Fire book signing at the Verbatim table during the San Diego Festival of Books

Press Release for the signing!

San Diego Author’s Novel Addresses Climate Change and The Horror of California Wildfires!

Long before the publication of his sixth novel, Ring of Fire, San Diego author David Agranoff had been in the trenches fighting for environmental causes. With two decades of environmental and animal rights activism in his wake, Agranoff believes that the timing of this novel’s subject matter is unsettling.

“I’ve been working on this novel since I first had the idea during the Cedar fire in 2003. It seems that now, in 2018, our entire world is on fire, and the time for action is running out. I honestly hate the feeling of being right.”

In the August 2nd issue of The Economist, the magazine stated it well: "EARTH is smoldering. From Seattle to Siberia this summer, flames have consumed swathes of the northern hemisphere. One of 18 wildfires sweeping through California, among the worst in the state’s history, is generating such heat that it created its own weather. Fires that raged through a coastal area near Athens last week killed 91. Elsewhere people are suffocating in the heat. Roughly 125 have died in Japan as the result of a heat wave that pushed temperatures in Tokyo above 40°C for the first time."

With a local setting and a global perspective, Agranoff released Ring of Fire through the world’s largest cult horror publisher Deadite Press. “Ring of Fire is both a horror novel and a warning about global climate change. It takes place in San Diego, surrounded by massive wildfires. Inside the fires, our city becomes ground zero for a storm of environmental disasters, from cancer clusters, to polluted drinking water. It is a horror novel, with some sci-fi elements at work.”

Agranoff considers himself a part of a new literary movement called Cli-fi, using speculative fiction to address the issues related to global climate change.

“There is a history of addressing environmental issues in sci-fi dating back to the 60’s, but the stakes have never been higher. I wrote Ring of Fire to be a scary and entertaining horror novel. I think San Diego readers will be enthralled when reading about the end of the world right here. I hope the message gets out too.”

David Agranoff will be signing copies of Ring of Fire at the San Diego Festival of Books at Liberty Station on August 25th. The Ring of Fire signing will take place at the Verbatim Books table from 11 am until noon.