Why a Writer’s Brain is Like a Tesla Coil

One of the questions writers get most often is, where do you get your ideas? Now as much as I’d like to be a smartass and answer that I get them from my local tea shop with biscuits on the side, cream and two sugars, I know that’s not right. It certainly doesn’t help you [...]

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Steampunking on the Fly

Someone recently asked me about my forthcoming novel Innocent Darkness and a) whether or not I plotted it out and b) why I chose Steampunk. Oddly enough Innocent Darkness wasn’t originally Steampunk. It was originally set in present day Sylmar, California. It was the first story where I had actually plotted out the entire story, [...]

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The Steampunk Novel Diary: progress, lots of it!

By Marie-Claude Bourque So with all the good news of publication around, I remain the one blogging Lolita unpublished in Steampunk (but so so thrilled for Liz, Theresa and Suzi- can’t contain my anticipation for these releases!) Yes I got my first gothic paranormal book out with hopes to continue the series but for this [...]

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In which Lolita Suzanne interviews Author Ben Winters

I had the opportunity to interview Ben Winters, author of such mashup novels from Quirk such as Android Karenina and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Here’s the book trailer for “Android Karenina.” In case you missed our recent book review, it’s a “mashup” where Ben has taken the text of Tolstoy’s classic and Steampunked [...]

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Rum all around!

Hello my lovelies–I have some exciting news to share! My steampunk erotic, ‘Steam Heat’ sold to Harlequin for their Spice brief line in a two book deal! They will be releasing back to back in 2011! I am so excited! Seriously, I am still passing virtual rum around to everyone! I will keep you up-dated [...]

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An Ode to Corsets

Let’s face it, breasts are ponderous things at times, and woefully inadequate in others, yet women have always had to find away around them to do what they wanted to and accentuate what they wanted seen. How? Stays, laces, bands, corsets, bras and a variety of interesting adaptations in between. From ancient times to modern, [...]

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Book Monday — Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan

Happy Monday everyone. To all you writers out there, I’m begining a “Book in a Week Challenge” today on my other blog. You don’t have to write middle grade, just be committed to try to write 20-50k this week. Details here. Come join the fun. I’d like to give a special shout out to Lolita [...]

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Happy Father’s Day

The lolitas of Steamed! would like to wish all the dads out there Happy Father’s Day! Picture from Calvin’s Canadian Cave of Cool.

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Author Pip Ballantine dishes about Balticon

Today is Thursday–and that means we have a special guest. Today we welcome author Pip Ballantine who’d going to dish about her recent trip to Balticon. Philippa Ballantine is a writer and podcaster from Wellington, New Zealand. She is a published author, with a supernatural fantasy, Geist coming out in October this year with Ace [...]

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The World Steam Expo report!

 Ok, since I have so many pictures to include in this post – I am just putting the thumbnail size in, just click on them to get the full-sized picture! That being said–lets move onto the fabulous World Steam Expo! So as usual, I flew all night, got into Dearborn, MI at about 5am, dead [...]

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Yesteryear Remembered

Today is my grandmother’s 88th birthday. That has little enough to do with steampunk until I think about the era in which she grew up. She was born right after World War I, a mere seven years after the first Zeppelin attack took place on London as part of armed warfare. She grew up in [...]

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Why Steampunk?

“What got you into Steampunk?” the hubby asked me recently. “I’ve been into it for awhile,” I replied. “That’s not the question I asked.” I thought for a moment. “Well, I came across the term about two years ago. I was looking for dresses for the Dickens’ ball and all the dresses I liked on [...]

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Visiting Lolita O.M. Grey Reviews “The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker”

Today we welcome back O.M. Grey, author of Avalon Revisited. She’s going to review The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker for us. The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber There are few books that captivate my attention so completely that I’m not only so enthralled with the story [...]

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Love in a Time of Steam!

 So I have some fabulous news! My steampunk short “Love in a Time of Steam” has been accepted by  Tease Publishing  and will be releasing on July 15th in e-book! It will also be releasing in print as a part of the “Love Like Clockwork” steampunk anthology in a few months! I just got my cover and it [...]

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Book Monday — Android Karenina

Today I have a new book to review for you. Technically, I’m supposed to post this on June 8th, as part of their “blogsplosion” release party, but Tuesday is Lolita Theresa’s day, so I’m posting a day early. As part of their big online release party, Quirk has some prizes and mayhem planned. Starting tomorrow, [...]

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