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…