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Timepiece now also live on Smashwords

My novel Timepiece is now available on Smashwords in a wide variety of formats – for every e-reader I've ever heard of, including iPad, as well as pdf, rtf, and plain text.

My novel Timepiece is now available on Smashwords in a wide variety of formats – for every e-reader [...]

Timepiece is LIVE!

I am delighted to announce that my steampunk time-travel novel Timepiece is available for download at Amazon and Barnes&Noble!
Other formats / platforms coming soon; I will let you know when they're up.
Timepiece is the story of a girl, a pocket watch, Frankenstein's monster, the Battle of Waterloo, and giant clockwork robots taking over London. (No, [...]

Greater Portland Scribists lets me do the talking

Click here to read my guest blog post, wherein I make an announcement.

Pretty close to the coolest thing I've ever seen

I am so excited about this.

Choice of Intrigues launches!

I am beyond delighted to announce that Choice of Games has released Choice of Intrigues, the long-awaited sequel to Choice of Romance, co-authored by Adam Strong-Morse and me.
It is available on iPhone/iPad and Android (as an in-app purchase once you've played through Romance). Choice of Romance and Choice of Intrigues are also available on Kindle [...]

More Scary Kisses Now Available In The U.S.!

From the publisher:
"Seventeen stories from some of Australia's brightest talents, complemented by fantastic tales from the US and UK.
More Scary Kisses promises vampires, aliens, fairytale princesses, parallel universes, voodoo, werewolves, wizards, phantoms, dryads and cherubim."
How can you go wrong?
Available from amazon, barnesandnoble.com, and indiebooks!

A Thought

The reason I love the musical 1776 is the same reason I write really believable quick-tempered impatient female protagonists. And that, in turn, is the same reason the managerial world and I decided we should see other people. The art of the council chamber is the art of the boardroom, and that is the art [...]

Designing Games For Non-Gamers

Two weeks ago, I spoke on panel at PAX East—or, more accurately, at the People's Republic of Interactive Fiction meet-up associated with PAX East—on the topic of "Non-gamers gaming."
It was a great experience. The People's Republic was warmly welcoming. The questions were interesting ("How do you design challenges for gamers who haven't played the last [...]

Knights, Dragons, Adventurers, Dirigibles, History, and Metaphor

Right, so, in the first installment of this thought process, I explained why I have a sentimental attachment to Victorian popular fiction. In the second installment, I explained how I got into an intellectual debate with Charlie Stross about steampunk, and how I realized that we were talking past each other to some degree.
The realization [...]