Dan Ellens - Forest Legend - Release Blitz

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The Tale of Ol' Split Toe

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Science & Nature/Environment Science Fiction/Time Travel Literature & Fiction/Action & Adventure

Date Published: 03-31-2026

Publisher: Mission Point Press

Mother Nature struggles to maintain equilibrium in a changing world while fire, disease, logging, human displacement, and war repeatedly destroy forests of centuries-old trees. Split Toe, a deer chosen at birth for a unique education, travels through time to understand the interconnected workings of a Michigan forest. He meets humans along the way: Ice Age hunters who trap and kill a mastodon; Mukwoh, a young Ojibwe hunter who stalks Split Toe through swamp and forest; loggers clearcutting Michigan’s white pines; Edra, a woman advocating for the trees; Angus and Grace, pioneers who become a first generation of family farmers; scientists from the future studying the impact of nuclear radiation.

Split Toe witnesses two hundred years of conflict building between modern humans -- who fight to control the natural world -- and Mother Nature, who repeatedly reaches for balance. He wonders whether human ways will ultimately overpower Mother Nature, until he meets a boy who changes everything.

Release Blitz - March 31st

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Dan Ellens is an outdoor enthusiast who is passionate about connecting people with nature. He spends nearly half of each year in an isolated, electricity-free treehouse on Winterfield Pines Nature Sanctuary with woodstove heat, handpump water, and oil lamp lighting.

Dan has written four nonfiction books intended to inspire adventure, promote self-sufficient lifestyles, and connect people with nature.

While not in the wilds, Dan and his wife live in the small community of Salem, Michigan.

Contact Links

Website: www.DanEllens.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DanEllensauthor

Goodreads: https://www.goodeads.com/book/show/243354020-forest-legend?ref=ru_lihp_up_rv_0_mclk-up17625199840

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/danellensauthor

LinkedIn: Daniel S. Ellens

Purchase Links

Amazon

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Forest-Legend-Tale-Split-Toe/dp/1968761071/

eBook: https://www.amazon.com/Forest-Legend-Tale-Split-Toe/dp/B0GCHBC817/

Giveaway

$5 Amazon Gift Card + eBook Copy

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