Thanks so much, Lia! Nice to meet you. :)

Hi, Lia. Thank you for your welcome.

Regarding me being connected with Luís, yes, we are connected, in the sense that we're both from Portugal and we know eachother for a few years now. Actually, it was he who first published one of my fictions back in 1998, in an old and long extinct "emailzine" of his.

But I'm curious; you met a Portuguese fellow by my name? Both name and surname? If so, that's a hell of a coincidence: it's not at all a common combination around these parts. :)

Wow! That's... well... amazing. There must be less than 10 of us in the whole country, from little kid to old fart. You now know more than a fifth of the whole population of jorgecandeisases. :)

I'm somewhere in between, BTW. In between little kid and old fart, I mean.

Thanks again and yes, this is a fun coincidence. And although in your youth I, too, didn't speak English all that well (in fact even today I write much better than I speak, thanks to that good old Portuguese accent you probably know quite well), I'm pretty sure I'm not "your" Jorge Candeias. Not that fun a coincidence, I'm afraid. Still, fun. :)

Lia, so your father is Portuguese? Good to know. It's a small world indeed :)

Hi, Lia. Thank you very much for your warm welcome! I already feel at home here!

Thanks for the welcome, Lia!

Thanks Lia

I believe Steampunk has tremendous depth and potential to say many things at a time when "making" and individual initiative is needed.  Like any true subculture, there is ethos and a living narrative carried and expanded by those who are drawn to the movement.  Steampunk is so much fun but I also believe that it has some unique opportunities for new "voice" that are just starting to happen as the movement is getting discovered by the broader population.

Cheers for now, Kevin

Thanks Lia :)

I really look forward to getting deeper into the steampunk stuffs. I've got plenty of steampunk artwork & stories brewing in my head...

Thanks Lia, it's a pleasure to be here! I'd have replied earlier but my head's been stuck in dragons and plucky heroes being chewed upon by said dragons for a while yet :)

My apologies for my slow reply, I signed up and then went into Holiday mode!

Thank you for the great greetings!  I look forward to being a part of things around here!

Cheers!

Lia, where is the tremendous, two-storey library?