JF: I can understand that as well, to an extent. I suspect each of us identifies with the urge to blow up polluters. The sex was better in an earlier draft (Gabe and Boadica's).

LJM: You mean a radical? Or the great sex? JF: At the risk of starting a marital issue online, was/is there anything like a Gabe or Boadica in your lives?

She's bossier than I am (shut up, Steve!) but we're both engineers who have been in upper management in a corporation. I think many women in traditionally male fields, such as engineering and business management, will identify with Emma. (Like Emma, she's a serious overachiever and very loving and smart.) She's also modeled in part after my mentor when I first got into the environmental engineering biz: a terrific, incredibly creative and brilliant and powerful woman named Irene, who is a dear friend. There are definitely aspects of Emma's personality that I identify with strongly. You guessed correctly that Keith was Steve's character and Emma was mine, kinda sorta. LJM: Yes, Keith is definitely modeled after my animus. Before working for the EPA, he worked for Greenpeace. For those of you who haven't read GREENWAR yet, Keith is an EPA enforcement investigator borrowed by the FBI to go undercover at an potential target of an eco-terrorist group. SG: There are aspects of each that are similar. JF: Are Keith and Emma close to yourselves? (To audience-these are the protagonists) We should also note that you can get a good in depth description and sense of the novel at its website: SG: It's probably significant that the full title, or title/description on the cover goes: GREENWAR, an environmental thriller. Hmmph! What about =girl= meets environment? And it's our fantasy of what a sustainable energy source might be like, what sorts of problems a young, energetic company might run into as it tries to buck the trend. LJM: GREENWAR is about the clash of different ideologies - or idealisms, if you prefer. SG: In parallax (since Laura is describing it from her computer) I'd call it your average boy meets environment, boy loses environment, boy blows up environment sort of story.

JF: I have to admit I'm about 75 pages from the end of Greenwar, but I'm thoroughly enjoying it. LJM: Honey, you =are= a little stevie icon. Steven Gould: I feel like I should have a little stevie icon blinking. Tonight our guests will be Steven Gould and Laura Mixon, authors of 'Greenwar'. Steven Gould/Laura Mixon OmniVisions Interview Steven Gould & Laura J.

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