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Free Books!
Today and tomorrow (August 1 and 2), I’m at Salt City Steamfest, doing convention stuff. To celebrate, today and tomorrow, I’m giving away free ebooks. Liahona is part the first of City of the Saints, my western steampunk … Continue reading
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History Cake
Emily Adams published a review of City of the Saints a few days ago on A Motley Vision, and I want to share it here. Because it turns out, that much of what I write could be described as “history … Continue reading
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Tagged A Motley Vision, City of the Saints, Easter Eggs, Emily Adams, Knopf, Steampunk, Writing Advice
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What Is Steampunk? (City of the Saints)
City of the Saints is finally out in paperback, and available from Amazon. Apologies for the delay, but I think you’ll find that the amazing cover by Nathan Shumate of Fifth Planet Design — and the rollicking, over-the-top, gonzo action … Continue reading
What Is Steampunk? (Clocksprung Horses)
It’s like The Atlantic is reading City of the Saints.
City of the Saints Historical Note #5
Brigham Young may or may not have really denounced Levi-Strauss jeans as “fornication pants.” His proposed State of Deseret was rejected by the United States Congress in favor of a significantly smaller Utah Territory in 1850, which was still twice … Continue reading
Timpanogos
Timpanogos (City of the Saints, part the third) is out now. Switch on the vibro-blade and buckle up, this steam-truck is about to take off!
City of the Saints Historical Note #4
The inventors in City of the Saints deserve a short note. Isambard Kingdom Brunel built railways, bridges, tunnels, and the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship. In 2002, he came second to Sir Winston Churchill in an extended survey to find the … Continue reading
City of the Saints Historical Note #3
Sam Clemens’s brother Henry did in fact die when the steamboat he was working on, the Pennsylvania, exploded. Sam had dreamed of Henry’s death a month earlier, and these experiences left him with an abiding curiosity about psychic phenomena and … Continue reading
City of the Saints Historical Note #2
Edgar Allan Poe is the father of both detective stories and weird fiction. He also dabbled in cryptography. In the real world, he died in 1849 in Baltimore. He died strangely: delirious, not wearing his own clothes, and muttering about … Continue reading
