The Night Watchman Express tells the story of Miriam, a spoiled child recently orphaned, reminiscent of Mary Lennox from The Secret Garden. By day, she is mistreated by her suspicious new guardians: business partners of her late father. By night,…
July 2011
Writing Multicultural Steampunk for a Young Adult Audience
by Alison DeLuca • • Comments Off
If you watch a group of children play together, they are what they are. They don’t care what other kids look like, as long as they are all engaged in the game. When writing for a YA audience, keeping them…
The Hand of Fate
by Prof. Cayne Armand • • Comments Off
A gunshot shattered the silence of the night, followed by the bloodthirsty cries of the mob on her heels. Maria Chen heard her pulse pounding in her head in near-perfect time to the crash-crash-crashing of the mob through the dense.…
Aeryn Daring and the Scientific Detective: A Serial Novel, Chapter One
by Calliope Strange • • Comments Off
“It’s Icarus whom everyone remembers. But it was Daedalus who built the wings and escaped.” ~Aeryn Daring I Lady Aeryn Foxxe-Grace Tallhat, in which we meet our unlikely hero, a man with a pointy beard, a curly-haired boy, and a…
The Night Watchman Express
by Alison DeLuca • • Comments Off
1 – The Intruders’ Arrival Miriam, who was hiding under the settee in the large drawing room, looked up from the story she was reading. Furnace, the butler, was talking to the cook outside the door. “…and their room must…
Steamsteel, Chapter One: The Brother and The Blueprints
by Walter Shumate • • Comments Off
Liza Johnson could not stand the presence of gentlemen for more than a few minutes. Men were all right, she was rather fond of those, but gentlemen would find her last nerve and play it like a badly-tuned violin. After…