Category: steampunk
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Dracula the Un-Dead
In just about two weeks, on August 9, I will be at Boutique du Vampyre in New Orleans to sign copies of my Scarlet Order vampire novels. I’ve enjoyed visiting this French Quarter shop since I discovered it in 2014. In 2020, when much of the world went into lockdown, owner Marita Crandle had the…
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How To Write Dreadpunk
And Why You Should ~punk fiction is a genre that typically embraces anti-authoritarian themes, rebellion, and societal defiance. It’s not just a genre; it’s a mindset. Born from rebellion, ~punk challenges conventions, tears apart societal norms, and reimagines the past and the future through a lens of punk attitude. The punk movement began with cyberpunk,…
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Indie Horror Film: The Stink of Flesh
From August 23-25, I attended Bubonicon 55, an annual convention of literary science fiction, fantasy, and related genres in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I was a panelist and a vendor. My vendor table, which featured books published by my company Hadrosaur Productions, was next to the table for Horrifying Hot Sauce. D. Ryan Mowry, the company’s…
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Crossover Characters
Ever since I was a kid, my friends and I would play games where we asked what would happen if characters from different fictional universes met. What would happen if Batman met The Green Hornet? What if Captain Kirk and the Doctor from Doctor Who shared an adventure? Who would win if the Predator and…
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Universal Expansion
Have you ever looked back one day as an author and realized how your world ballooned? I just did this morning. I’ve been writing for nine years now, mostly in the lane I call the Legacy Universe, a fictional realm wherein superhumans were made in the 1870s and this caused history to change in big…
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The Steampunk Aesthetic
Earlier this month, I was a panelist at the Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention in Tucson, Arizona. During the convention, I had the opportunity to sit on a panel with K.W. Jeter, the man who coined the word “steampunk” in a 1987 letter to Locus Magazine. In the letter, he spoke about fantasies set in…
Threads that Bind 