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Researching Nineteenth Century Diving for Brass and Glass 3

| September 12, 2024

When I was writing Brass and Glass 3: The Boiling Sea, I knew at least some of my characters were going to need to dive into that Boiling Sea in order to find the treasure they were looking for. But my setting is steampunk and roughly analogous to the nineteenth century in terms of technological influences. […]

The Brass and Glass Series

| May 2, 2024

If you like steampunk, have you checked out my Brass and Glass series? It’s a trilogy following Captain Svetlana Tereshchenko and the crew of The Silent Monsoon as they look for a cask of whiskey, which leads them to search for a map, which leads them to the fabled location of a legendary treasure. All three […]

Newer Steampunk Stories!

| February 13, 2024

It’s been a while since I posted about my steampunk stories, so I’ve got a bit of catching up to do! Back in December 2022, Factor Four Magazine published “Don’t Count Your Sprite Shards Before They’re Caged,” a flash fiction piece involving an airship, a captain, and her crew pursuing a dangerous energy source. While some […]

Check Out Brass and Glass 3

| June 27, 2023

An interesting thing about trilogies (or any series, really) is that readership tends to drop off for later books in the series. I can certainly see this when I look at the reviews for each book in my Brass and Glass trilogy. The first book has twice as many reviews as books 2 and 3 combined. […]

The Story in the Middle: Brass and Glass 2

| March 30, 2023

When the editors at Razorgirl Press (the original publishers of my Brass and Glass series) asked me whether Brass and Glass: The Cask of Cranglimmering was a stand-alone book, I was pretty sure the answer was “no.” But I hadn’t entirely figured out what would happen in the rest of the books. But that question got me […]

Brass and Glass 1, Six Years Out

| January 31, 2023

It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost six years since I published my first novel, Brass and Glass: The Cask of Cranglimmering. In a lot of ways, it feels like it’s been even longer than that! It’s still a book of which I’m quite proud, and I still recommend it to people looking for steampunk, […]

My Steampunk Books

| November 15, 2022

If you enjoy reading steampunk, I’ve got five books, for both adult readers and younger readers! First off, I have the Brass and Glass trilogy: Brass and Glass: The Cask of Cranglimmering is the first in the series, followed by Brass and Glass 2: The Long-Cursed Map and Brass and Glass 3: The Boiling Sea. These […]

The Brass and Glass Series

| September 1, 2022

If you haven’t checked out my Brass and Glass steampunk series, here’s a little reminder that all three books are available in ebook and paperback. Read about the adventures of Captain Svetlana Tereshchenko and her intrepid crew as they search for a cask of whiskey (Brass and Glass: The Cask of Cranglimmering), a map (Brass and Glass […]

Steampunk Reads

| March 31, 2022

If you enjoy reading steampunk, I’ve got four books out now, and a fifth one coming soon! First off, I have the Brass and Glass trilogy: Brass and Glass: The Cask of Cranglimmering is the first in the series, followed by Brass and Glass 2: The Long-Cursed Map and Brass and Glass 3: The Boiling Sea. […]

My Steampunk Books

| August 24, 2021

Steampunk is one of my big loves, with it being the genre for my published trilogy and one other book. Brass and Glass: The Cask of Cranglimmering started out as a short story. Then it became a novel. Then, when asked if I had more set in this world, it became a trilogy, with Brass and […]