Cooper Finds Her Thermal: As Told to George Miller by a Little Pink Bird

Southern Maryland writers George Miller and Donald Shomette have written and illustrated a most unique book entitled Cooper Finds Her Thermal: As Told to George Miller by a Little Pink Bird. The work is presented as an allegory in which the myriad birds of the Eastern Seaboard voice their environmental concerns in comic book format.

In the story, a young Cooper's Hawk, ejected from the nest at an early age, makes the journey down the eastern coastal migration route in search of her mother. Along the way, she is befriended by a Turkey Vulture and a Hoot Owl who have organized the Avian Liberation Front to rectify the environmental damage inflicted upon the tidewater estuaries. High-definition creative artwork, computer graphics and photography of the Chesapeake Bay and its wildlife portray the dramatic threats posed by the encroachment of humanity.

Cooper Finds Her Thermal is sharply critical of anti-environmental forces at work along the Eastern Seaboard. The style is humorous, easily read, and artistically presented with several layers of meaning and wit lurking beneath the surface.

Southern Maryland author and poet George Miller first served his country as an officer in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. His subsequent civilian career saw him engaged with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, and later as a successful CEO of his own computer software company. He is the author of several works, including Wrap Your Ass in Fiberglass, a novel, The Bucklodge Flagstop and Other Poems, and The Best Free Verse Ten Dollars Can Buy.He manages a small publishing company in Southern Maryland where he has facilitated books under several local imprints. In conjunction with Elisavietta Ritchie's Wineberry Press, he edited and produced PAX: An Anthology of Southern Maryland Poetry (the works of thirteen regional poets of the lower Western Shore of Maryland Chesapeake).