JOIN us! In lovely downtown Burbank (CA), as Johnny Carson would say, and meet authors, Makers---for there is also a Craft Faire (note that I wave the colourful flags to signify such)---try on steampunk couture 'n gorgeous accessories, drink tea, and take your picture with a TARDIS (Doctor may or may not be included).

Happening this SATURDAY, beginning at 12pm, appearing will be the lovely Dru Pagliassotti of The Clockwork Heart series, Jaymee Goh of Steampunk World, Madeleine Holly-Rosing of the Boston Metaphysical Society comic book series, Elizabeth Watasin (that's me) of the Dark Victorian series, and Patrick Scullin of Pandamonium! Location: https://clockworkcouture.com/
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1499465090306573/ Come and have fun!

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All that said, I think this is the first event at which ICE DEMON: A Dark Victorian Penny Dread, will make an appearance! And it's so pretty, :D.

The adventures of His Highness' supernatural agents Art, an artificial ghost only a few days old, and her partner Jim, an animated skull, continue. And I couldn't be more pleased. This time, while Art is still recuperating from the re-animationist case, she and Jim must deal with a bone stealer who uses his rather unique gift to remove and insert bones into another and adhere skin, muscle, tissue, and nerves without permanent damage - except to the one who unwillingly donates his or her bones.

I was delighted by the first book in this series. (Read my review of Risen here.) So, I was expecting to enjoy Bones as well. What I was not expecting was to absolutely fall in love with it! From the artwork to character development to the beautiful Victorian London scenes, it was impossible not to love this novel.

I know Elizabeth Watasin did a great deal of research for this novel, but I have a feeling that she actually lives and breathes this era, that she sees airships when she looks up and carts and hansom cabs on cobblestone roads when she looks around.

I would like to thank The Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy for adding my print books to their permanent collection! That’s Dark Victorian: Risen, Bones, and Sundark: An Elle Black Penny Dread! The Eaton Collection is the world’s largest collection of science fiction & fantasy! http://eaton.ucr.edu/

The Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy is the largest publicly-accessible collection of science fiction, fantasy, horror and utopian literature in the world. It is housed in the UC Riverside Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives in the Tomás Rivera Library.

More, later! I’ve tons to do. I do want to thank everyone who bought books and geegaws from me at LosCon 40! Thanks for the support and what a great way to round out this year!

all the best,

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Just finished with Comikaze Expo 2013, now to catch up on a myriad of things, like---

Dropping the price on one of my e-books! My Gothic steampunk mystery avec a very cool gaslamp superheroine, The Dark Victorian: Bones, is now only a dollar more than Sundark: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B58ZGFK

Though 2nd in the series, it's written to be self-contained and is (yes), hefty, as is often commented to me at events! ;) That's because more characters, more sub-plots, a more dense immersion into this alternate world of a supernatural, mechanical 1880's London.

"I am made of this."

In a mechanical and eldritch Victorian London, a black arts surgeon is ripping out the bones and organs of the healthy poor to transplant into the afflicted bodies of the wealthy. Anti-vivisectionists battle with medical doctors, medical doctors condemn supernatural practitioners, and amidst it all the Bone Stealer hunts for his most elusive prize yet: the skeleton of a woman over six feet tall. Secret Commission agents Art, the artificial ghost, and Jim Dastard, the animated skull, rush to stop him before another woman dies. And Art, only six days living after being resurrected to serve the Secret Commission, might be that woman.

Experience female detective mysteries with a Victorian superheroine:
A gaslamp fantasy in a steampunk, paranormal London, follow the dangerous adventures of an uncanny female sleuth and her senior skull partner set in the same alternate world as Elizabeth Watasin's Victorian Gothic series, The Elle Black Penny Dreads.

Enjoy! :)

"APE, the Alternative Press Expo, returns to the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco the weekend of October 12 and 13, 2013."

AND Clockwork Twist by Emi Thompson, The Dark Victorian series by (me!) Elizabeth Watasin, and ECHOES by Janice T., will be there! 

At Table 218, in the Mezzanine! Come up, because we are offering STeampunk bundled specials and freebies. < < < !!!

Confession: I won't be there due to foot recovery. APE looks to be a very busy show (having grown over the years), and it does take lots of stamina and foot traveling and standing. So I must thank my table compatriots for putting my books out and slinging them at you! Please WELCOME Janice and Emi to their first Alternative Press Expo. :-0 And help them out by pointing peeps their way, because we've lots of steampunk and neo-Victorian offerings to share!

meanWHILE: The lovely Kate Danley will be at Big Orange Book Festival this Fri, Sat, and Sunday with her Maggie MacKay, Magical Tracker series and more!

My good friend and fellow indy comics creator Jimmie Robinson will be at New York Comic-Con, also this weekend, as well as friends Curls Studio! (do I know their table/booth locations? I've forgotten!!!).

I've more friends you can see at APE, like BAND (the Comic book!), whose table # I don't know yet, and Bruce Simon and Mary Fleener of underground and indy comics fame, whose table # I also don't know! (terribly efficient of me!).

Myself, I'll be home Writing. Why not, someone has to do it. :D