An Archive of Writing by Kelpie Wilson

Praise for Primal Tears:

“PRIMAL TEARS is primal storytelling, thoughtful and passionate. Kelpie Wilson wonderfully expands our definitions of human and family.”

-- Greg Bear, author of Blood Music, The Forge of God, Darwin's Radio, and Quantico

"What a great book! I loved it, and found it to be totally enthralling. As I read, I felt drawn deeper and deeper into a primal sense of hope. Not a naive hope, not wishful thinking, but a hope arising out of a sense of the immensity of human evolution and the profundity of out interconnectedness with all of life. I hope everyone on our dear and endangered Earth reads this book."

-- John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America and Healthy at 100

"PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental and feminist politics. Its protagonist, Sage, is unique, magical, and haunting."

-- Kate Wilhelm, author of The Unbidden Truth, Clear and Convincing Proof, and Skeletons

"Kelpie Wilson’s PRIMAL TEARS has rounded, memorable characters, evocative descriptions, lively dialogue, an exciting plot, … and an understated, evenhanded wit that is very engaging. … It is a clear-eyed, courageous look at some of the most denied and neglected threats to the biosphere and the place of humans in it."

-- David Rains Wallace, author of The Monkey’s Bridge and The Bonehunters’ Revenge

What Are We? Kelpie Wilson's Primal Tears Offers One Response

"Not long after 9/11, I found I had a sudden intense hunger to know what was irreducibly human, to know exactly what we are, described with the precision, detail and accuracy of science. My archaeologist husband suggested lists of anthropology texts. My colleague, Truthout Environment Editor Kelpie Wilson, sent me to Steven Mithin's wonderful "After the Ice." But for all these books' inherent interest, I did not find any answers there. On vacation this summer, I reread Kelpie's intriguing first novel, "Primal Tears." While Wilson also does not offer "answers" to the what-is-a-human question, she takes her readers down a suggestive and intriguing line of inquiry."

-- Leslie Thatcher, Truthout

Read the review and an interview with author here

“This is a book that deals with serious issues and is unwavering in all of its explorations. Top-notch near-future ecological speculation”

-- John Joseph Adams, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show

Read the whole review here

Read the whole review here

Anneli Rufus writes in the
East Bay Express:

Bonobos are the beasts du jour. Social critics laud them for having so much sex, some of it bi, much of it face to face, and for being a female-dominant species whose males would rather boink than fight. It's not the boinking that matters most to Wilson. "The big news about bonobos is not the sex but their peacefulness. People crave peace and bonobos show us how one peaceful primate society is organized. Human aggression is destroying the planet. Bonobos are a brand-new story."

Read the whole profile here

More Reviews:

Dr. Susan Block

Science Fiction Weekly

Sentient Times

Terrain

Earth Island Journal

Coming Soon!

Primal Tears: the graphic novel
by artist Grace Roselli and
writer Kelpie Wilson

Meet Sage - the bonobo-human hybrid girl. Visit Sage's MySpace page for more pictures and news!

2007 Energy Bill Reporting

When the Democrats swept Congress in 2006, House Leader Nancy Pelosi promised a new energy bill. After being strained through the Republican roadblocks in the Senate, the final bill was weak tea served in the corporate CAFE - CAFE for Corporate Average Fuel Economy, that is.

Kelpie Wilson's energy bill stories for Truthout are all collected on one page here.

Yoga Plus Feature:
Trees Are the Ark that Can Save Us

Kelpie Wilson gives an update on the state of the world's forests and new initiatives to save them in this report in the Nov.-Dec. 2007 issue of Yoga Plus Joyful Living magazine.

Kelpie is a Yoga Plus contributing editor. You can also read her Yoga Plus article on terra preta at the website of the International Biochar Intitiative.

Special Reporting from Australia in May 2007:

Reporting on the International Agrichar Initiative Conference and a win-win-win technology that could help with the climate, energy and food crises. Plus reports on the Australian drought, Rupert Murdoch, whale lovers and permaculture. Links here.