Author Interviews

Interview: Ged Maybury

January 5, 2012
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Interview: Ged Maybury

Already established as an author for the children and young adult market (a finalist in the New Zealand Children’s Book Awards ’94 and New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards ’01),  Ged Maybury has just released “Into the Storm’s Domain”, the first book of his new Steampunk series “Across the Stonewind Sky.” The series has had a very ‘novel’ (ahem) approach to promotion through the community as Maybury is well known in the Brisbane Steampunk community for his outfits and devices as much as for his authorship. Doctor Fantastiques (DF): What’s your elevator pitch for Across the Stonewind Sky? Ged...

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Steampunk! Vapore Italico

May 3, 2011
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Steampunk! Vapore Italico

With the rise of interest in Steampunk culture across the world, we didn’t have to wait too long before an Italian publisher decided to print the first anthology of this genre: Edizioni Scudo announced in October 2010 they were looking for stories in order to realize the first anthology of Italian Steampunk tales. The feedback was bigger than expected: while Edizioni Scudo wanted to realize one anthology, they got enough good material for three books. The first book, Steampunk! Vapore Italico (Italian steam), was published in April 2011. It features fourteen tales that are an interesting interpretation of steampunk...

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