Heather Albano





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Hello! I'm Heather. I write for a living. Which is the only thing I've ever wanted to do for a living, actually, so that's... pretty awesome, when you stop to think about it.

My first novel, TIMEPIECE, is a steampunk time travel adventure - the story of a girl, a pocket watch, Frankenstein's monster, the Battle of Waterloo, and giant clockwork robots taking over London.

You can find my short fiction (all of it speculative or historical or both) in the MORE SCARY KISSES anthology from Ticonderoga Publications, in Aoife's Kiss, in Midnight Times, in the sadly-defunct Spectra Magazine, and shortly you will be able to find it in Electric Velocipede.

When not writing fiction, I work as a game designer for Choice of Games, producers of award-winning...more


The only bad thing about having both a black leather corset and a place to wear it? Spending a day in the f*cking corset. My undergraduate thesis touched on the ways in which Victorian society produced helplessness in its women, but there’s really nothing like proving the point for yourself. Indeed, yea and verily, I [...] read more »
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Average rating: 4.11 · 56 ratings · 24 reviews · 6 distinct works
Timepiece
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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The only bad thing about having both a black leather corset and a place to wear it? Spending a day in the f*cking corset. My undergraduate thesis t... read more »
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Chasing Shakespeares by Sarah  Smith
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I really wanted to like this, but it simply didn't hit hard enough. The premise was interesting and the last chapter was great; the ~400 pages in between were painfully slow, going through all the motions of a grand epic without the intensity of emot...more
Heather Albano and 5 other people liked Holly Black's blog post: PUB DAY FOR BLACK HEART!
"Today marks the end of the series!  Got anything you want to know?  Anything you want to talk about?  Come over to my LJ.Spoilers welcome!I just want to thank all of you who talked up these books, ..."   ...read it »
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His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
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44487 MYTHOS GROUP — 58 members — last activity May 27, 2012 08:43am
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1112 Young Adult Fiction for Adults — 4792 members — last activity 14 minutes ago
Whatever your age is, if you love reading young adult fiction, then I want to know what you are reading! Let's exchange ideas of good reads, nice idea...more
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