Oh great hive mind. I need to invent a bullet proof corset for my heroine in a steampunk novel. Start with spider silk...

Decisions, decisions. How do I show my heroine as having eclectic tastes in men without making her a slut? This is England 1838 at the coronation of Victoria so it's a little harder for a 6' tall blonde woman of Junoesque proportions who has never married, bills herself as the bastard daughter of a Gypsy king, and hosts the most popular salon in ( Read more... )

"Plowed Under: Whistling River Lodge Mystery #2" is in the bag and submitted to publisher.

Took today off to go shopping with a friend. Tomorrow I diver headlong into Steampunk. Yay Steampunk!

What's a day off? I'm using my time between submitting one book and starting the next by catching up with bookkeeping, admin chores for the Book View Cafe, and finishing off the edits for Gears And Levers Volume 3 anthology ( Read more... )

Yesterday I put in a marathon of pounding on the keyboard and finished the rough draft of a new proposal. Steampunk if you have to know. Story is based upon the character of Madame Magdala, the supposed bastard daughter of a Gypsy king in London 1838. We last saw MM in the novelette "Shadow Dancer" in the shared world anthology "Shadow ( Read more... )

Here's the cover copy for Gears and Levers ( Read more... )

Busy, busy week. First off, over at the Book View Cafe, http://www.bookviewcafe.com my 4th Merlin book "Guardian of the Promise" by Irene Radford was released yesterday. As usual it comes in a variety of DRM free formats ( Read more... )

Did you miss me? I've been out conning and had precious little time to do anything else, and no easy, free connectivity. But that's what I like in a con, total immersion into another reality that takes on a life of its own ( Read more... )

Over on the Book View Cafe, Linda Nagata is presenting a new book, Limit of Vision. This looks like a book I have to have and read several times. She's exploring human relationship to technology. In a different venue, Steampunk does much the same thing. We loves out tech we do. But do we understand it or appreciate the consequences? Are we ( Read more... )

Yesterday the Book View Cafe ran an update of my old blog "Why Steampunk" on account of we're celebrating Steampunk this week. http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2011/07/27/why-steampunk-2/#commentsRead more... )