Story of My Book
My book, titled Eco Winners, is about environmental leaders that have created successful environmental movements and about how individuals can impact the Earth to be a greener and more eco-friendly place.
My name is Katya Pronichenko and I am the author of Eco Winners. I wrote this book because I felt powerless in my life goal of helping save the environment, yet through researching and after interviewing various powerful “eco-winners“, I gained hope and understanding on what is needed to help the Earth; starting with my own community, first.
My hope is that, in reading this book, you will be inspired by the stories of Eco-winners to start and continue your advocacy and live according to your ideals in protecting the beautiful Earth we live on. In this book, I hope to instill the same sort of passion and excitement that I have for environmental advocacy in you. Ultimately, I want you to see this book as a tool to help you change the environmental policies or movements within your own communities and, quite possibly, on a global scale as well.
In this book, you will learn about environmental leaders and how to take create a real impact on the world now:
- Story of Greta Thunberg: the story of how a thirteen year old environmental advocate created the greatest global climate-strike movement in history, impacting more than 20 countries.
- Story of Wangari Maathai: the story of how a rural Kenyan woman created the Green Belt Movement, a nationwide movement in which rural women in Africa planted millions of trees to support their communities and oppose dictatorship Earth-harming government regime
- Story of Heidi Harmon: the story of the Mayor of San Luis Obispo, who went from being a discouraged single mom to becoming the leader of multiple environmental organizations and marches, and eventually the main green legislator in Central California.
You will love this book if you are an environmentalist or a person born of this Earth.
Eco Winneris a non-fiction book that speaks to students, young adults, and just people who want to protect the Earth we live on or who are looking at making an impact and fighting environmentally-degrading companies and legislation for the first time.
The Book - Eco Winners
The book is written in 3 Parts....
Part 1: Eco History contains the introduction + the incredible story of Greta Thunberg, and chapters that give an overview of how Earth’s resources have been overused throughout history. Throughout this section, you will learn about major events that transformed the Earth and how we now use and abuse it, including insights into the First Agricultural Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the current meat, coal, natural gas, and agricultural markets.
Part 2: Eco Winners contains Chapters 5-10, chapters in which I explore the stories of Eco-winners, starting from local environmental movements including beach clean-ups and tree-plantings, to national movements including stopping destructive pipelines and petitioning the government. One of my favorite moments was when I interviewed a recent college graduate not much older than me who, to my surprise, already had gotten arrested twice for the fight for the environmental movement, manually stopped the building of a pipeline, and overall lived life fearlessly according to her ideals.
Part 3: Eco World contains Chapters [10-15]. In these chapters I go into more depth about the impacts of different organizations and companies and their influence on the world. In this chapter, we explore different environmental organizations including Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club, and companies including Amazon, Fjallraven, Glossier, and more. These chapters show the importance of the environmental impacts of companies and governments, and how, surprisingly, an individual person can influence both corporations and legislation.
What I Need & What You'll Get
This book will be published with New Degree Press. I set up the pre-order tiers to help cover the costs for publishing my book. Money raised will go towards the following:
- The Editor I will work with to revise and publish my manuscript in December, 2019
- The Cover Design of my Book - the mockups you see currently are a placeholder!
- The Layout Design for the interior of my book (Physical Copy, Ebook Formats)
- The Copyediting for My Book - to make help polish the grammar and spelling prior to publication
- The Launch & Promotion Efforts for my book - when I ultimately publish this winter
When I pre-sell 100 copies of my book, I will publish. When I pre-sell 150 copies of my book, I will also publish an audiobook. When I pre-sell 200 copies of my book, I will publish a hardcover edition.
I am also offering some exclusive rewards for people who pre-order my book now:
You will receive a personally signed copy of my book when I publish
- A Personal, handwritten thank you note for pre-ordering my book
- Your Name will appear in a Special, Acknowledgements Section of my book (“with Special Thanks to”)
- Early access to the Introduction of my Book and my entire manuscript, with the opportunity to review it and give me early feedback
- The opportunity to help give me feedback and be involved in selecting my cover
- I will do a book topic/workshop seminar where I will share experience the experiences of writing my book
- And more...
About the Author
Katya Pronichenko will be studying Economics and Environmental Science in Dartmouth College, interned in the California State Assembly, and has been a committed member of the Sierra Club, and Environmental Defense Fund.
Risks & Challenges
The biggest challenge with publishing a book is delivering the finished book to the backer, specifically my mailing of the book to you. I have eliminated this risk by building into the campaign the mailing and shipping costs of your signed copies to you within each pre-order tier.
The risk of delivering the pre-sale copies of my book is contingent on the publisher we use. I will be working closely with New Degree Press to make sure we get the earliest possible ship date of the signed book copy to you. We will keep all pre-sale backers up-to-date as my book hits each key milestone and publishes. You will know when the copies of my book you pre-ordered are expected to ship.
Other Ways You Can Help
Some people just can't contribute, but that doesn't mean they can't help:
- Please Share my Pre-sale Campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn with your friends, family and network. Please use #EcoWinners and tag me as well as my publisher, New Degree Press so we can help amplify your efforts.
- You can easily share my Pre-Sale Campaign Page via Indiegogo at the top of the page
- Please share my book to 5 friends, family members, or co-workers who you think would enjoy it. Please do this as a text message or Direct Message on social media.
Thank you so much for of all of your love and support!
Thanks again,
Katya Pronichenko