If you’re on Facebook and if you’re looking for a Steampunk themed game, there’s alwaysBlackwood & Bell for Missing Item games, but now SimCity Social has included some Steampunk themed missions into it’s popular City Building Game.

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When I started writing I was worried that, as it is when I run a RP game, I'd have problems with developing character motivation. Assuming I could buffer that some with technology and science fiction, I set out to write a work of Steam punk/ science fantasy. I determined, at first, to make the machines the focus instead of characters. Originally, I was going to have only two main characters, but it didn't stay that way for long. I've…

When I started writing I was worried that, as it is when I run a RP game, I'd have problems with developing character motivation. Assuming I could buffer that some with technology and science fiction, I set out to write a work of Steam punk/ science fantasy. I determined, at first, to make the machines the focus instead of characters. Originally, I was going to have only two main characters, but it didn't stay that way for long. I've learned a lot about the genre and writing in general.…

In the course of streamlining my descriptions, I think I've learned something. Don't talk to the reader like they're two years old unless it's a children's book.

Aly Grauer at Doctor Fantastique's Show of Wonders reviewed Ether Frolics yesterday:

"This collection of nine short stories is a true jaw-dropping jewel of a book... Marlowe…

I've decided to step back from Dixie Aethernaughts for a little bit before I do the final proofing and such. In the meantime have been working on a supernatural Horror tale. You can see an excerpt of it on my blog.

Since October 2011 two writters from Spain and México came with the idea of an Anthology about retrofuturism, writting in spanish language and then asking all the latin american and spanish community be part of it.

That will be published as "Ácronos" 

But many stories get out from the original project, so "Plan B" was born.

The next September 29th in EuroSteamCon Spain "Planes B Volume I" will be introduced, as a steampunk  Anthology with…

  I've finished writing my novel. I'm somewhat worried that it may not be received well by the Steam Punk crowd. The first half is very much Steampunk-ish but in the second half it becomes hard scifi fantasy with future tech. I'm not apologetic but am curious about other's input.

I've been writing crime fiction under the pen name of Jack Bates for several years now. About a year ago Red Willow Publishing released my middle grade, cowpunk novel, COLT BUCHANAN and the WEATHER WALKERS. (Smashwords link: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/121381)

When a young boy’s parents are kidnapped by a mysterious gang that attacks on tornados, he is rescued by agents of a secret organization that will help him…