Diving Helmets and Heart of Steel
I just sent my editor my 7-page cover notes for Heart of Steel — including this image: And so if we end up with a cover like this, I take full responsibility.
The Iron Seas
The Iron Duke – French language rights
My editor recently told me that The Iron Duke‘s French rights were purchased by J’Ai Lu, which means that the book should be translated and available in France at some point in the next year or so. I’m super-thrilled by the news, and can’t wait to see what kind of cover they come up with […]
Iron Duke = $8.74 at B&N (ETA: Now $8.06)
Want The Iron Duke for just $0.75 $0.07 more than mass market? B&N and Amazon have been repeatedly dropping the price (and then the other drops, and then the other to match it – Amazon is currently at $9.20 $8.30) of the print version so now it’s not much more than a mass market copy. […]
Free steampunk reads, two Q&As, and a little dance.
Yesterday in the comments, jmc reminded me of an upcoming m/m steampunk romance from Carina Press, Island of Icarus by Christine Danse. I’ve invited her to come over and tell us more about it closer to the release date, but until them, she also has released a few (FREE!) erotic steampunk short stories over at […]
Yay! and Ow!
I opened up Twitter this morning to some awesome news: The Iron Duke has been selected as a Best of 2010 Romance by Publishers Weekly. I’m in great company — check out the list: The Forbidden Rose by Joanna Bourne The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook The Heir by Grace Burrowes Barely a Lady by […]
RT & Others (a w00t! post)
The Iron Duke has been given RT Book Reviews’ October Seal of Excellence, and they say some really lovely things about the book at that link. Other recent reviews have been Mrs. Giggles’ and Felicia Day’s (and I’m hard-pressed to say which brings out the bigger fangirl in me). I also ran across Sarah’s (at […]
Burning Up releases! and the winners of yesterday’s contest
Well, after years and years of hoping that I’d someday write a steampunk romance, the day is here: BURNING UP is out, and the novella “Here There Be Monsters” launches my new series, The Iron Seas. I hope you all love it! Here are the winners of the quickie contest yesterday, as picked by random.org: […]
FAQ: Iron Seas alternate history
I’ve added Iron Seas info to the FAQ page (mostly reprinting my What is steampunk? post and answering whether the books will stand alone.) But the other topic about which I’ve been asked a few times is the alternate history. It’s a funny thing about alternate history — none of the characters in the book […]
Steampunk for realz
So, author copies for Burning Up came today. I’m also currently looking over the typeset pages for The Iron Duke, and making the final corrections before that book is printed for its October release. It’s a little strange. I haven’t been this nervous about a release since … Demon Moon, I think. Every release comes […]
Iron Duke cover! (sans airship)
So, this is the almost-final cover to THE IRON DUKE. If you saw the prelim version in the Berkley fall catalog, you’ll notice the changes are basically that he’s bigger and dirtier…just the way I like him. 😀 The background will be changed a little (they are adding an airship) but since it’s a small […]
Signings, Guest Posts, and Steampunk (and win two books.)
Ana at the Book Smugglers wrote an early review of my novella, Here There Be Monsters, for Steampunk Week II. And last night at around 3 a.m., I sent her a guest post about steampunk romance that’s supposed to go up on Saturday (if it’s Saturday, click here!) Last night was kind of hazy: I […]
I just decided not to use a “Bait Master” joke.
…and here is another post that could have probably just been on Twitter.
I just decided not to use a "Bait Master" joke.
…and here is another post that could have probably just been on Twitter.
Guardian Music
…I’m at Odd Shots, talking about the music for the Guardian series. And in case you missed it, I put up an excerpt for Demon Blood (it does include spoilers for Demon Forged, so if you haven’t read that yet, be warned.) Here’s a snippet from the Burning Up novella (I am LOVING the steampunk, […]
Happy New Year!
I’ve got a post up at Odd Shots featuring the trailers of several paranormal-ish movies that I’m looking forward to (once I get caught up with my writing.) I’m not online much, and I expect that this blog will be pretty quiet through the end of February, but I’ll always be at Odd Shots on […]
Steampunk
On Twitter, I was asked about steampunk — specifically, what is it? I’m copying this from an explanation I did a few weeks ago (because there’s really no one definition of steampunk, honestly. But this is the way I’m approaching it.) Steampunk is essentially historical science fiction — and for steampunk, the advanced technology is […]