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Wodehouse Steampunk!
Reggie, an avid reader of detective fiction, knows two things about solving crime: One, the guilty party is always the person you least suspect. And, two, The Murders in the Rue Morgue would have been solved a lot sooner had the detective the foresight to ask the witnesses if they’d seen any orang-utans recently. Reeves needs all his steam- ( Read more... ) -
What Ho! Automaton
As I haven't posted here for some while - I've been away blogging every Saturday at Book View Cafe - I thought I'd post a snippet from a new story. It's a steampunk version of Jeeves and Wooster set a generation earlier in the Shadow Conspiracy world of 1903. It'll be appearing in the book, Shadow Conspiracy 2, coming out in Jan/Feb of next year ( Read more... ) -
Brewing Fine Fiction
I've got a couple of articles in the new book on writing, Brewing Fine Fiction, from Book View Cafe. It looks an excellent book if I say so myself. Here's the blurb and ToC:
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Book Title Help Required
With the publication of Nous Sommes Anglais less than a month a way, doubt has arisen over the title. Will people see the title, assume the book's written in French and ignore it?
I'm beginning to think quite a few people will. What do you think?
One solution is to emulate other expat memoirs and add a subtitle. Another is to change the title ( Read more... ) -
Steampunk Photo Contest
In celebration of Book View Press’ upcoming release of The Shadow Conspiracy Volume II (SCII), Book View Café is holding a steampunk photo contest. The winning photo may even be used on the cover of SC II which is scheduled for publication in December of this year. Prizes for the winning entry will include a copy of The Shadow Conspiracy Vol. I and ( Read more... ) -
Short Update
Lambing: Well, lambing is almost over. We had a single lamb two weeks ago, now we're waiting on a ewe lamb who may or may not be pregnant. All will be known in a fortnight.
Nous Sommes Anglais: I've started work on the re-write/polish. Hopefully, it'll be ready for release around July. It'll be coming out through Book View Cafe as an eBook and ( Read more... ) -
Dark Matter, String Theory and Kittens
New evidence this week has suggested that Dark Matter is composed of a complex web of superstrings. Not ordinary superstrings - but super chunky, unwashed (hence the dark and dirty colour) double-ply strings.
And that’s not all. The web is brittle. Sometimes large lengths of double-ply superstring will break off and wrap themselves into a very ( Read more... )
