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Category Archives: Art
What Is Steampunk? (City of the Saints: Sam Clemens)
As of today, I am 65% through the first draft of City of the Saints, my gonzo steampunk action romp set in the year 1859 in the Kingdom of Deseret. My tentative plan, though things may change, is to publish … Continue reading
Fan Fiction
William and I made this diorama this week. The figure positioning and implied narrative are 100% his: already facing off against the deadly bounty hunter Cad Bane (they are up a tree and the dogs are barking), the Jedis’ lives … Continue reading
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Two Mes
Here’s me, at Life, the Universe and Everything in February. There is a professionalism point here — when you are selling yourself as a professional writer, don’t go to business events dressed like a goombah or a slacker. And here … Continue reading
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Little Boy in a Dress (2)
Here’s another little boy in a dress; this one happens to be a relative (at least by marriage). This is my wife’s grandfather, Asael Sorensen, as a likely young lad early in the twentieth century (and several decades after 1881).
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Little Boy in a Dress
Francis Drollery, Ghost Crusader is a series about the ghost of a ten-year-old boy, doomed to fight evil forever… wearing a dress. This was something that was done by families of a certain class, in England and in the U.S., … Continue reading
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The Serpent Mound
Here’s a nineteenth century sketch of the Serpent Mound. The real one is outside Peebles, Ohio. This is an important piece of archaeological Americana that figures into Witchy Eye, and it’s my only geographical cheat in the novel; I moved … Continue reading
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