Potatoes, Come Forth!

My new fantasy novel is out.

I have thought to characterize it as Southern-fried Steampunk Magical Fantasy, but decided that this unusual nomenclature might rebuff some potential readers.

As far as the Southern-fried part, I tried to draw a world with some Lowland Southern flavor, particularly in food, landscape, and the dialog of some characters.

The Steampunk comes in because the world of the novel includes some transformed 19th century technology. I did not, however, adhere faithfully to any real world science, since that tends to make things uninteresting, in my opinion.

Fundamentally, the story is pure fantasy and I decided to focus on this aspect in my descriptions.

As a hint to any that might chance to read this blog, while the story of this episode of the main characters' lives is complete in this novel, many secondary elements remain unresolved. This was by design.

Disclaimer: There are no traditional (elves) or paranormal (vampires) elements in this novel. It does have requited love.