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Michelle Black is the author of six novels of the Victorian West, including the bestselling AN UNCOMMON ENEMY. Her latest, Séance in Sepia, debuted in October 2011, and features real-life feminist firebrand, Victoria Woodhull as its protagonist. She in a Queen Anne Victorian home near Boulder, Colorado.

She was born in Kansas and studied anthropology in college. She went on to law school and graduated with honors. In 1993, she moved to Colorado and began to focus on her fiction writing. For three years, she owned a bookstore in Frisco, Colorado, a small town nestled high in the Colorado Rockies.

While researching her first Eden Murdoch novel, An Uncommon Enemy, she began to study the Cheyenne language and became involved in the movement to sa...more


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Average rating: 3.49 · 118 ratings · 45 reviews · 9 distinct works
An Uncommon Enemy (Eden Mur...
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Seance in Sepia
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Solomon Spring
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Second Glass of Absinthe
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Never Come Down
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Lightning In A Drought Year
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Solomon Spring
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An Uncommon Enemy (Literature & Fiction)
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Description: A woman is torn between two cultures after Custer and the Seventh Cavalry attach the Cheyenne village of Black Kettle on the Washita.

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I am pleased to present aguest post by award-winning author Ann Parker. The fourth entry into her wonderful Silver Rush Mystery series, Mercury's R... read more »
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The Moor by Laurie R. King
The Moor (Mary Russell, #4)
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Changeless by Gail Carriger
Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)
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"Chapter One

November 27, 1868
Washita River, Indian Territory

In the soft silence between sleep and wak" …more
Michelle Black said "yes" to attending the event: Steamcon II: The Weird, Weird West
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date: November 19, 2010 09:15PM
location: Seattle, WA, The United States
description: This year’s steamposium will highlight the Weird Weird West or American steampunk, if you will. Imagine the age of steam on the wild frontier. You are invited to explore with us the world of roughriders on mechanical horses, mad inventors, mystical Indian shamans, and mighty steam locomotives. Picture airships instead of stagecoaches, and the precision of robotic sharp shooters. If western steampunk doesn’t appeal, there will still be lots of classic steampunk to partake of as well.

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42725 The Steampunk Writers & Artists Guild on GoodReads — 117 members — last activity Jun 28, 2011 11:21am
For lovers of Steampunk, monthly book discussions January & February - "Soulless" by Gail Carriger March - "The Hunchback Assignments" by Arthur Slade ...more
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A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to...more
49507 Steampunk Reads — 1132 members — last activity 9 hours, 59 min ago
What is steampunk? Steampunk is Victorian science fiction or "Steampunk" is the science-fiction of the Steam Age; the Industrial Revolution re-imagined...more



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Beth Hi Michelle,
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