Okay, so it’s a steampunk festival… but Aunt Enid will still be there – or at least the first book will be.
I’ll have limited copies of Aunt Enid: Protector Extrordinaire, so don’t forget to pick up your copy early.
Adelaide Steampunk Festival: National Railways Museum, 14-15th September, 2019.
I’ll be at the Adelaide Steampunk Festival for the second week of September… I’ve got a belated book launch, a talk AND I’m judging the costume parade. It’s going to be hectic!
So I don’t miss chatting to you, the September Live Chat will be on Saturday 7th from 11.30am to 1.30pm (Adelaide time).
In this month’s behind the scenes I show some covers I’ve made, share some spoilers, discuss writing and researching ‘A Fey Tale’ (second Aunt Enid book), list future planned books, reveal short stories related to series, and show the video made for a tintype photoshoot for Adelaide Steampunk Festival, 2019.
If you want to join in next month, then pledge your support before the end of the month!
Next month I’ll be at the Adelaide Steampunk Festival and I’ll have copies of ‘The Department of Curiosities’ – the first book in my new series – for sale.
The Adelaide Steampunk Festival is the first event it’s been available for direct sales. 
Stop by the merchant row and pick up your copy.
If you want to make sure you don’t miss out on your copy, you can contact me to pre-pay and collect at the event.
My friend Sharon has just posted her first book cover reveal (she commissioned me for the cover). Her book, Hemlock Soames and the Waterhorse, is scheduled for pre-Christmas release.
You can check out her pages at smkemmettwordtailor.wordpress.com and on FB: facebook.com/smkemmettwordtailor/
Today I chatted with my supporters about new steampunk hats, a recent steampunk photoshoot and book cover designs. We discussed upcoming books in my ‘to write list’, talked about a new steampunk fantasy book series and I showed them sneak peek snippets of some upcoming bookcovers.
shhh…. SPOILERS!
If you want to join in next month, then pledge your support before the end of the month!
I’ll have all three books of the Adventures of Viola Stewart.
You can read more about Viola Stewart and her adventures here.
for more information or to pre-order to collect at the event.
Sometimes you open your emails and get a pleasant surprise. In this case it was a link to the latest post on the book blog, Suz’s Space.
Suzie is one of my long-term supporters on Patreon. Not only did she write a quick review on my short story collection, With a Twist of the Nib, (a Patreon sign up reward), but she also plugged my Patreon page.
Much appreciated, Suzie.
You can read her review post on her blog HERE
I got excited on the weekend. I was catching up on some live chats by favourite authors and was reminded of some research books I had planned to get.
I bought a copy of Timelines of History. I finally found a cheap copy so I can write my series’ alternate timelines in it. I know, sacrilege, right? But so useful!
I also went looking for some Baedecker’s guides for future books. They have guides to various parts of the world from early 1800s onward. I would dearly love some hardcovers but the cheapest was almost three hundred dollars (and upward beyond six hundred). I really couldn’t afford that, so I found copies online at archive.org. I love this site!
And hence the downward slide deeper into the rabbit hole began. I’ve now got copies of guides for England, London, Northern Italy and France and Egypt, dated from 1883 to 1898…
All of which will be useful for planned books. I won’t tell you which books yet!
This post was shared with Patreons on 25th June, 2019.
