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Ellen King Rice
Ellen King Rice is a former wildlife biologist with passions for epigenetics and fungi. In her younger years she served as a wildlife conservation officer, a big game manager, an endangered species biologist and as an lobbyist for environmental issues. After a spinal cord injury halted her field work, Ellen studied dominance and territorial behaviors while parenting toddlers and adolescents. One year she entered a Hank the Cowdog story contest and won a twenty two volume set of Hank adventures. This trained her brain in the fine art of being a misunderstood genius. Currently she is working on finding her car keys.
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The original “mushroom thriller,” with scorching sex and jaw-dropping betrayals, The EvoAngel is a fast-paced science-fantasy adventure combining the worlds of epigenetics, mycology and social media as it addresses the question “How are angels made?”
Elderly mushroom hunter Edna Morton is sprouting feathers. A trip to her health clinic brings her to the attention of an ambitious physician, Dr. Theodora Band, who wants control of the unique research opportunities presented by this feathered woman. Edna quickly realizes Dr. Band is trouble.
Is there something in the local fungi that triggers changes in human DNA? Edna knows she needs to avoid the medical establishment and she needs time to look at her family history to see if this has happened before.
Could those stories of witches and toadstools be aspects of evolutionary development? Will her daughter and granddaughter be feathered next?
There's no time to dawdle. Scientists are gathering as are angel-adoring fans. Edna’s quiet life is upended and the biggest question of all is this: where on earth can a family of angels survive?
Set in the Pacific Northwest woods, The EvoAngel has strong female protagonists and contains adult topics, including sex and violence. It was a finalist in The Wishing Shelf Awards where it was deemed “highly recommended.”
The EvoAngel includes illustrations of local fungi by Olympia artist Duncan Sheffels.
THE EVOANGEL
MUSHROOM THRILLER - BOOK 1 |
Winner of a 2019 IPPY Award for best regional fiction. Ellen King Rice delivers a new thriller set in the woods of the Pacific Northwest — a story of suspense, mushrooms, alternative economies and dark forest dwellers.
Retired botanist Dr. Oh rejoices when he finds an enormous specimen of a rare shelf fungus, a species nicknamed the “Fuzzy Sandozi.” Unfortunately, there is a dead body lying next to the magnificent polypore. His granddaughter, Jasmine, insists they must report the murder, despite the danger of revealing the location of the rarity.
Just a few miles away, twenty-year-old Elspeth Dwerryhouse has mushrooming problems of her own. After time in prison for selling psychoactive fungi, she is now working multiple jobs to earn money for college. Her stint selling emergency preparedness supplies brings her to the attention of a backwoods family, the Fickhams, known for trading in chainsaws and abusing women.
As Elspeth juggles transcription for a mycologist, busing tables and cat minding, she must also avoid the lusty Fickhams, support her cousin Carmen’s medicinal mushroom research, and negotiate the management of a sweet-but-wild high-energy dog that has been dumped into her house-sitting gig.
The Fickham men are cunning and dangerous. None more so than Henry, who is dealing in fentanyl while his father, seventy-year-old Russell, is a master of rape, intimidation and body disposal. Henry wants out and Russell wants Jasmine, Carmen and Elspeth “tenderized” in a dark shed filled with glowing mushrooms.
Fungi in this story include polypores, liberty caps, waxy caps, truffles and more.
Part thriller, part ecology class and totally fungi friendly, Undergrowth takes the reader deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest.
UNDERGROWTH
MUSHROOM THRILLER - BOOK 2 |
Many people with chronic pain use prescription opioids and neuropathy drugs to manage their pain only to find that the medications cause additional challenges, including heightened anxiety, depression, rage disorders, constipation, weight gain, spasms, loss of mental clarity and ever greater levels of pain.
This travel guide explains some of the cellular actions that are behind the miseries and describes one woman's successful journey to move off three powerful prescriptions. The travel guide includes links to informative articles and has tips for managing transition periods.
A GENTLE TRAVEL GUIDE TO LEAVING PRESCRIPTION OPIODS AND NEUROPATHY DRUGS
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