How to Get Notified When Viva Natura's Marine Life Field Guide Is Released

Updated

Viva Natura's upcoming Field Guide to the Marine Life of the Mexican Tropical Pacific is scheduled for release in mid-2026, and the only notification channel the project describes is an email sign-up on its own site. You register your email address through the notification form tied to the upcoming book, and the author, Petr Myska, states you will receive a short message when the book becomes available. According to the site, there are no newsletters and no marketing emails — just a publication notice.

What the book will cover

The guide is described as a bilingual field guide to more than 200 marine species of Mexico's Tropical Pacific, illustrated with over 400 full-color photographs taken by the author in the wild. The species groups named on the site include:

  • Reef fish
  • Corals
  • Sharks and rays
  • Crustaceans
  • Nudibranchs
  • Other marine animals

The stated audience is divers, students, and ocean explorers who need a practical identification guide for the region.

How to sign up for the release notice

  1. Go to vivanatura.org and find the "Upcoming book" section under Publications.
  2. Enter your email address in the notification field provided there.
  3. Submit the form. The site says you will be sent a short message as soon as the book is released.

The site does not describe any other notification method — no social media sign-up, no pre-order list, and no calendar reminder are mentioned as alternatives. If you want to be told directly, the email form is the route the project itself offers.

What to expect after signing up

The commitment described on the page is deliberately narrow: a single publication notice when the book is released. The author explicitly states there will be no newsletters and no marketing emails. That means you should not expect updates on the book's progress, sample pages, or related Viva Natura titles through this channel — only the release announcement itself.

If you want the book sooner or in another format

The marine life guide is not yet available, so there is no ebook or print edition to buy at this point. If you are looking for Viva Natura's currently available work, the site lists Viva Natura: Field Guide to the Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals of Western Mexico — a bilingual guide to 230 species with 440 original full-color photographs. It is sold in select local bookstores and as an ebook on Amazon Kindle and Google Books. That title covers terrestrial and freshwater wildlife of Western Mexico, not the marine species the 2026 guide will address, so it is not a substitute if your interest is specifically the Tropical Pacific marine life.

Practical notes

  • The release window given is "mid 2026," so the notice may arrive with little advance warning.
  • The notification form is the only mechanism described; there is no stated way to pre-order.
  • Because the site says no marketing emails are sent, your address is used for the release notice rather than ongoing promotion — but the page does not provide further detail on how the address is stored or used beyond that statement.