Launching on April 23rd, 2024, The Brass Queen II: Grand Tour will take you on a journey like no other! The pre-order is live now on all good bookstores’ websites. Description: In a fantastical steam-powered world, eccentric aristocrat and secret arms dealer, Miss Constance Haltwhistle, has been blackmailed into stealing alien artifacts from the crown…
Tomorrow, I’ll be with The Fairfield Scribes at the Saugatuck Story Fest in Westport, CT. I’ll be signing books from 11-1 pm, before heading to our 2.30 pm book launch/reading of When To Now: A Time Travel Anthology. It would be lovely to see you there! 😀 Check out the three-day literary festival schedule HERE. You…
While scouting for a location for a publicity photo shoot, I was fortunate to find a Victorian painted lady with a fascinating past. Far too often fine examples of Victorian architecture fall beneath the wrecking ball of modern developers. It takes true passion to fight to save a building that seems long past its glory…
I recently bought a personalized engraved brick to support the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe. The bricks are part of a fund-raising campaign to create a museum and science center on the site of Nikola Tesla’s final laboratory. The original purpose of the laboratory was to create wireless telegraphy and power transmission. The site included a…
I have attended numerous sci-fi and steampunk conventions over the years, but this was my first visit to the biggest of them all – Dragon Con. Over 70,000 people attended the event, which is held throughout a collection of hotels in downtown Atlanta, GA. We had an absolute blast! If ever there was a place…
I recently attended The Steampunk World’s Fair in Piscataway, New Jersey. The Fair is the world’s largest steampunk event. It’s a very friendly convention. Everyone who attends loves some aspect of the Victorian aesthetic and is genuinely thrilled to meet others of the same mindset. The Fair is a celebration of creativity. There are fantastic…
Yesterday I survived the virtual Hunger Games/Battle Royale/Thunderdome process of buying convention tickets for the 2015 New York Comic Con. I was one of the lucky 141,000 people who managed to secure tickets after sitting through hours of website crashes. Per the NYCC website, “When the ticket queue opened at noon, there were already more…
I spent the last few days at the PAX East gaming convention in Boston. PAX East is a celebration of all types of gaming; tabletop, card, arcade, computer, handheld, mobile and console. The attendees range from industry veterans to tweens just starting to appreciate the world of PS4. Young or young-at-heart, we are all united…