Dorothy Howell, Contibutes, "A Feral State of Mind' to Feral anthology. It takes a forest to raise a child.

FERAL, the anthology is closer to publication every day. Today’s featured contributor is Dorothy Howell, a lady I’ve known for over 34 years, but have never met. She and I were charter members of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Amateur Press Association, which is published 4 times a year and issue number 146 was just released.

Dorothy's contribution, “A Feral State of Mind,” is a remarkable period piece featuring the protagonist from her outstanding novel, “Where You Can Hear the Sea and See the Sound.”

Inspired by childhood on the Connecticut shoreline combined with fascination for Native Americans and Tarzan of the Apes, Howell proceeded from ecology to environmental law to engaging hearts and minds in addressing environment matters. She focuses on how formative places help make each of us who we are and what happens when we are separated, often involuntarily, from such places, in short: self, place, and identity – and identity in exile. Tarzan is compelling as the ultimate identity in exile, at home in the extremes of wilderness and civilization. In both he moves with intelligence, grace, and dignity while most of us are caught closer to the civilized extreme.

Her publications include Intellectual Properties and the Protection of Fictional Characters and the environmental trilogy: Scientific Literacy and Environmental Policy, Ecology for Environmental Professionals, Environmental Stewardship: Images from Popular Culture. Her self-published Where You Can Hear the Sea and See the Sound is the culmination of her “mission.”