Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Keys (City of Keys: Book One) Author: Amber Kell Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 200 Pages At a Glance: Keys is an excellent steampunk/dystopian story, in the grand tradition of the Steampunk genre, but it is a world all of its own. Reviewed By: Angel Blurb: My name is Octavius Septimus Stalk, but my... Continue Reading →
Title: Blue on Black Author: Carole Cummings Publisher: DSP Publications Pages/Word Count: 380 Pages At a Glance: Blue on Black is an alternate universe, twisted history, sci-fi/fantasy/steampunkish feast for the imagination and senses. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Kimolijah Adani—Class 2 gridTech, beloved brother, most promising student the Academy’s ever had the privilege of calling their... Continue Reading →
Title: Jack Wolf (A Daily Dose Story) Author: Kay Walker Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 44 Pages At a Glance: Steampunk and shifters collide in this fun daily dose story. Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: Henry Dalton is sent across the country by train to the western town of Woolridge in order to investigate the werewolf... Continue Reading →
Title: Winter’s Bees (Mechanical Universe: Book Three) Author: E.E. Ottoman Publisher: Less Than Three Press Pages/Word Count: 105 Pages At a Glance: A decent entry to a series set in an interesting world, but this story is filled with overused elements. Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: Lord Marcel de la Mont de Anges, the Marquis de... Continue Reading →
Title: The Gilded Scarab Author: Anna Butler Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 314 Pages At a Glance: When this novel gets a good head of steam going, it’s an adventurous and entertaining jaunt through an alternate reality London. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: When Captain Rafe Lancaster is invalided out of the Britannic Imperium’s Aero Corps... Continue Reading →
Title: Alchemy Ever After Author: Raine & Siôn O’Tierney Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 56 Pages At a Glance: Short story with a sweet, innocent apprentice, a grumpy alchemist, and a sculpture come to life. Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: The city of New Alexandria is filled with powerful magicians-in-training and mechanical follies, the world’s largest... Continue Reading →
Title: Alchemy Ever After Author: Raine & Siôn O’Tierney Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 56 Pages At a Glance: Short story with a sweet, innocent apprentice, a grumpy alchemist, and a sculpture come to life. Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: The city of New Alexandria is filled with powerful magicians-in-training and mechanical follies, the world’s largest... Continue Reading →
Title: Clockwork Pirate Author: Lyn Gala Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 278 Pages At a Glance: As alt-history steampunk adventures go, I’d say Clockwork Pirate is a fun one. As romances go, though, I’d say this one relied too much on telling rather than showing. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Alex hid his unnatural attraction to... Continue Reading →
Title: Hammer and Bone Author: Kirby Crow Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 236 Pages At a Glance: Haunting and beautiful, Hammer and Bone is an impressive and inspired collection. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: The purest evil lives in the hearts of men Carnival mystics. Zombie tribes. Bad magic in the Bayou. Mage-princes, alien cities, and... Continue Reading →
Title: Liberty & Other Stories Author: Alexis Hall Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 308 Pages At a Glance: A pastiche that's done not just amazingly well but with unexpected touches of hilarity in deeply serious moments. Reviewed By: Rena Blurb: For the delight and edification of discerning readers, we present diverse stories concerning the lives,... Continue Reading →
Title: Liberty & Other Stories Author: Alexis Hall Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 308 Pages At a Glance: A pastiche that's done not just amazingly well but with unexpected touches of hilarity in deeply serious moments. Reviewed By: Rena Blurb: For the delight and edification of discerning readers, we present diverse stories concerning the lives,... Continue Reading →
Title: The Mechanical Chrysanthemums Author: Felicitas Ivey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 90 Pages At a Glance: A mixture of genres that somehow work perfectly together Blurb: Hachisuka Narihiro is a pilot in the Shogun’s elite unit of musha-ki, robotic armor automated by steam and magic for the defense of Nippon in a slowly modernizing 19th Century,... Continue Reading →
Title: London Steam Author: Lynn Townsend Publisher: JMS Books Pages/Word Count: 99 Pages At a Glance: Two loosely related novellas and a surprise M/F ending in the second, make for an overall uneven read Blurb: In a reimagined 1890's London, where steam-driven airships rule the skies and monsters roam the streets, the Galileo Observatory's Club... Continue Reading →
Hello, and welcome to the mini blog tour for There Will Be Phlogiston (released: 8th December), a free novella set in the Prosperityverse. Many thanks to Lisa at The Novel Approach for hosting me today! To celebrate the release of Phlogiston, I’m also doing a little giveaway of any book from my backlist, which you... Continue Reading →
Title: Precious Metals (Metals: Book Two) Author: L.A. Witt Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 150 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: For Constable Paul Benson of the North-West Mounted Police, monotony is a blessing. As a provision inspector below the Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike Gold Rush, he’s seen miserable conditions and gold fever turn civilized... Continue Reading →
Title: The Circus of the Damned Author: Cornelia Grey Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 274 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Magician Gilbert Blake has spent his entire life conning drunkards in the seediest pubs in the darkest towns, careful to hide the true depths of his power. But when he spends a little too much... Continue Reading →
Gaslamp Fortnight: A Steampunk Book Tour – October 27th – November 7th Authors L.A. Witt, Alexis Hall, and Cornelia Grey come together on a Steampunk book tour to celebrate the releases of Precious Metals, Prosperity, and The Circus of the Damned. Join us on adventures through the lawless, untamed, kraken-infested skies! Trek the snowy wilds... Continue Reading →
Gaslamp Fortnight: A Steampunk Book Tour – October 27th – November 7th Authors L.A. Witt, Alexis Hall, and Cornelia Grey come together on a Steampunk book tour to celebrate the releases of Precious Metals, Prosperity, and Circus of the Damned. Join us on adventures through the lawless, untamed, kraken-infested skies! Trek the snowy wilds of... Continue Reading →
Cowboys and Dandies and Wizards, Oh My Lisa asked me to talk a bit today about the inspirations for Prosperity, particularly in the light of the blurb, which is quite self-consciously pulpy. Prosperity actually has quite a long history of how it got where it is, and so it has quite a lot of random... Continue Reading →
Title: Prosperity Author: Alexis Hall Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 190 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: A breathtaking tale of passion and adventure in the untamed skies! Prosperity, 1863: a lawless skytown where varlets, chancers, and ne’er-do-wells risk everything to chase a fortune in the clouds, and where a Gaslight guttersnipe named Piccadilly is about... Continue Reading →
Growing up with a Southern father was an interesting experience. When I tell Northerners and East coasts folks about my dad-isms they chuckle and do not believe my description of my father until they meet him and see that he is, in fact, like Walter from my previous Sweet & Steamy novella THE WINTER TRIANGLE.... Continue Reading →
Welcome to the Riptide Publishing/L. A. Witt blog tour for Noble Metals! Thank you to The Novel Approach for hosting me. Every comment on this blog tour enters you in a drawing for a choice of two eBooks off my backlist (excluding Noble Metals) and a $10 Riptide Publishing store credit. Entries close at midnight,... Continue Reading →
Welcome to the Riptide Publishing/L. A. Witt blog tour for Noble Metals! Thank you to The Novel Approach for hosting me. Every comment on this blog tour enters you in a drawing for a choice of two eBooks off my backlist (excluding Noble Metals) and a $10 Riptide Publishing store credit. Entries close at midnight,... Continue Reading →
“We will protect that which we love, even when we don’t want to love it and we don’t feel it loves us. Perhaps it doesn’t. That is how love works. It exists, whether or not it is returned.” – R. Cooper Title: Wicklow’s Odyssey Author: R. Cooper Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 350 Pages Rating:... Continue Reading →
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