My steampunk erotica short story collection ebook, The Innocent's Progress and other stories, is now live on Circlet press, and it will be on other retailers' sites by the end of the week. My first book!

I'm also doing an author chat this week on the Circlet Press Livejournal group.

EveryDayFiction.com just published my latest flash story, "The Problem of Pain."

My latest story "Disappearing Girl" is online at EverydayFiction.com.

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I've been told that Circlet Press has had a number of problems the last few months, and things are behind schedule. I won't receive proofs to review until next month, and the ebook won't drop until mid-August.

With my luck, the whole steampunk meme will have faded out by them, or at least gone into recession.

Circlet Press is having some website problems, but my steampunk erotica story collection should be out soon. Here's a preview:

The Innocent's Progress and Other Stories by Peter Tupper

"The Innocent's Progress" appeared in the first volume of Circlet's steampunk erotica trilogy, Like a Wisp of Steam, which I edited with Cecilia Tan. Tupper's ( Read more... )

Today I emailed in the last story that will go into the Innocent's Progress collection, "The Spirit of the Future." It's an indirect sequel to "The Pretty Horsebreaker," already published in Circlet's Like a Corset Undone. I had already breached the minimum word count, but I really wanted a story that would be a capstone and answer the question of ( Read more... )

Circlet Press' steampunk erotica anthology, Like a Corset Undone, is now on sale, which includes my short story "The Pretty Horsebreaker." It's set in the same world as my earlier "The Innocent's Progress", though most of the characters are based on real people of the Victorian era. The protagonist, for example, is based on Catherine "Skittles" ( Read more... )

The second draft of "The Pretty Horsebreaker" is on its way to Circlet Press. Mainly I strengthened the subtext.

In an odd moment of synchronicity, I read this today in Susanah Breslin's Reverse Cowgirl blog, referring to the new film "The Girlfriend Experience". It goes remarkably well with what I was trying to do with Miss Ccri, the protagonist ( Read more... )

My article on the Best of BC Books Online project is now at the Globe and Mail online. Actually, it has been online since February 10th, but I wasn't notified until today.

I've been thinking a lot about ebooks and epublishing lately. At the launch party for the Every Day Fiction anthology a few weeks ago, I got to know the inner circle of Every Day ( Read more... )