Cool Steampunk Stuff

A list of some of my favorite steampunk stuff out there, as well as some things that could become quite steamy:

1. This gal. I love her.

2. Art like this:

3. Great  books, especially:

Super  original story

and 

Grabbed my attention and wouldn't let go.

4. Any bathysphere

5. Cephalopods:

6. Postboxes:

I know some of these things don't have brass, gears, nor cogs. But they could have them, with a bit of steamy imagination.

Watch this space for teasers using some of the above objects in a new steampunk novel, The South Sea Bubble...

Diving In - the New Book

Soon it will be that time again. I've almost finished editing The Lamplighter's Special, and it will be going up on Kindle soon.

That means that in a few days I'll start a new book. That's a scary, frightening, magical thing. It's one thing to be in the middle of a project; it is another to face a blank page again.

Anything could happen there. Lately a few ideas have been nudging me, waiting to crystallize as written words. I've been thinking a lot about bathyspheres, about the history of medicine, and about some strange characters called Old Hundred Coats and Old Thousand Coats.

At the same time, I have to start from nothing. I will have to create a structure out of the aether, hoping that a few aeronauts will come and give me a little guidance. I will need a map, but no one is going to give me one - I'll have to draw that map myself before I can start that voyage.

I'll take that dive, along with a lot of other authors. They are out there now too, getting ready to listen to that singing voice, the muse, the constant urge to tell a story.