• We Have a Title!

    I can officially announce the title to DEAD IRON’s sequel.  Are you ready? TIN SWIFT I actually love this title, but then I (presumably) know what the book is about and why it makes a cool title. 🙂  What do you think? DEAD IRON TIN…

  • Weekend Wandering Allie Beckstrom Style

    POWELLS SIGNING… ….was awesome!  Thank you to everyone who came out for the event.  I had a great time meeting new readers, and seeing familiar readers, and generally chatting like crazy.  One person even brought a knitted Stone the gargoyle to the signing!  He’s the…

  • Q&A

    Yesterday I worked on catching up on emails (still have a few to answer, but I’m getting there) and there were a couple questions that kept popping up.  I thought I’d answer them here. 1. How many books will there be in the Allie Beckstrom…

  • Signing – Dead Iron

    This is a friendly reminder that I will be signing DEAD IRON (or, indeed, any of my other books) at the Beaverton, Oregon Powell’s Books TOMORROW, Tuesday August 2 at 7pm. Can’t make it?  Powells WILL MAIL you a signed book–personalized if you want–anywhere in…

  • Steampunk Man In Black

    While researching old trench digging machines (and oh, my gawd, the things people came up with!) I stumbled across this photo. Why have I never seen this?  My life simply would not have been complete without it.  Let me share the official awesome that it…

  • GEAR Con Mini Report

    I had the wonderful opportunity to attend GEAR Con on Friday.  On arriving at the event, I was immediately invited onto a panel with Irene Radford and Andrew P. Mayer, who were explaining the hows and tos of world building. (I admitted to my post-it…

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