New Release: Bartleby and James
Bartleby and James is the second edition of The Collected Bartleby and James Adventures, the first Galvanic Century Edwardian steampunk novel. In addition to some minor edits, there are new opening and ending chapters that tie the detectives’ first cases together a bit more cohesively. As of this posting, it’s available as a free ebook from Amazon, Kobo, and the Apple iBookstore, and will soon be available free through Barnes & Noble.
A Galvanic Century in flux
The new edition isn’t the first of the Galvanic Century updates. There’ve been a few others.
When I first wrote And They Called Her Spider, the novelette that became Bartleby and James‘s first part, I had been planning on a series of four novelettes under the Bartleby and James Adventures series, and that the next three novelettes would comprise the Chronicles of a Gentlewoman series.
After the publication of March of the Cogsmen brought the storylines together, I fused the series together into the singular Galvanic Century. I was also branching off into other genres, so needed a single umbrella to place all the stories set in the same general story universe.
At this point there were the seven novelettes, their two collections, and the two novels March of the Cogsmen and Dreams of the Damned, along with the Steampunk Omnibus collecting all of it, available as ebooks, in print, and gradually, as audiobooks.
The eleven titles were a bit confusing for new readers and made my author pages look cluttered, so I unpublished the individual novelettes (no one was buying them anyway) and reworked their collections into tightly-woven novels.
So now, it’s Bartleby and James, A Gentlewoman’s Chronicles, March of the Cogsmen, and Dreams of the Damned. Much more manageable, particularly with Ghosts of Shaolin set to publish by the end of the year.
What comes next
I’ve got years worth of Galvanic Century stories planned, and as long as people keep buying them, I’ll keep releasing them. Bartleby and James makes a good introduction, and it’s free, so if you like historical steampunk mysteries, feel free to pick it up.
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