Video promo for Book 3 of the Aetherstorm Chronicles

After two years of dark exile in the Land of the Rising Sun, Tesla St. Vrain is summoned by the Grand Master of the Sōhei to embark upon a dreaded quest; to locate and retrieve the most dangerous artifact known to man – The Dominion Stone. This Sphere of Nether has been sought by evil … Read moreVideo promo for Book 3 of the Aetherstorm Chronicles

The audiobook for Tesla St. Vrain, the Power Within is now available!

The audiobook for Tesla St. Vrain, the Power Within is now available! The narrator did a great job. It took over 60 voices, including French, Irish and German accents as well as dialog in those languages. She added a little reverb to the voices of the ghosts to make them sound a little eerie. https://www.audible.com/pd/Tesla-St-Vrain-The-Power-Within-Audiobook/B0C383Y6PH … Read moreThe audiobook for Tesla St. Vrain, the Power Within is now available!

Book 2 of the Aetherstorm Chronicles is released!

After escaping the dark tunnels of Egypt, Tesla found her new life as a Lieutenant of the Ministry anything but easy. All around her, supernatural threats were on the rise, as an ancient evil returns to threaten the existence of the Ministry of Psychical Defense and possibly humanity itself. Caught in a web of schemes, … Read moreBook 2 of the Aetherstorm Chronicles is released!

The Old West in Steampunk

Another setting is “Western” steampunk, which overlaps with both the Weird West and Science fiction Western subgenres. One of the earliest steampunk books set in America was The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis. Recent examples include the TV show and the movie adaption Wild Wild West, the Italian comics about Magico Vento. I couldn’t resist taking Tesla to the Wild West o … Read moreThe Old West in Steampunk

The Nosferatu, a spotlight on evil

A small preview from book two…. Von Voss looked back at Dante. “So, the matter concerns vampires. In what context is this to our objective?” “Twenty years ago, a Voodoo priest known as Doctor Skin made a pact with the Nosferatu in New Orleans. In exchange for providing them a fresh food source and promises … Read moreThe Nosferatu, a spotlight on evil

The original idea for Tesla’s wardrobe that I trashed

When I first started designing Tesla’s outfit, I choose from steampunk designs that I saw on the internet. However, as I began writing the book, the outfit simply didn’t work. After all, what woman would want to run off into battle wearing something like that. In the early 1900s, wearing such an outfit would of … Read moreThe original idea for Tesla’s wardrobe that I trashed