In case you haven’t heard, my book has an official title. It is now Innocent Darkness, Book 1 of The Aether Chronicles.
Nice right?
There’s still time to sign up for my class Writing Steampunk From Aether to Zeppelin which starts July 5.
I’ve joined the group blog The Nightstand Debuts and am vloging on Wednesdays. I’m going to be working my way through the Steampunk Alphabet.
Here’s my very awkward vlog on “What is Steampunk.”
Nice vlog!
I can’t wait to read Innocent Darkness! *_*
Oh Suzanne, it’s not awkward — just the opposite, you sound smart and interesting. You do Steampunk proud.
Can’t wait for more vlog installments.
And so I don’t sound like some kind of sycophant — I would make one tiny suggestion: have the camera higher, so you’re slightly looking up. I think you’d be happy with the results.
Hey Suzanne, you mentioned wanting goggles for your little girl? I made some for my baby girl a little while ago, and while I’m not selling them, they were pretty easy to make and I’d be happy to walk you through making some. Here’s a pic:
http://kryss-labryn.deviantart.com/#/d2z7njn
Basically, the body is scrap leather, fairly stiff but not enough to chafe; the goggles are brass plumbing nuts (hence the nice flange), the biggest ones the hardware store had; and the lenses I cut out of the shoulder (to make it slightly convex) of a 2-litre green pop bottle. It’s all held together with brass craft wire that basically whip stitches the whole lot together (a sharp needle poked holes through the plastic lenses for the wire to go through, same with the leather), and where that wire goes around the outside of the brass nut it runs through a little brass spring bead I got at the local dollar store. The beads have a loop at one end (I have them sticking up and the flat base of hte bead against the leather); I wrapped the wire around that loop a bunch with needle nose pliers before feeding it down the body of the bead. The ends of the wire are tucked into the leather a bit at the back and hot-glued down for comfort and a bit more security.
I used these picture hanger thingies and brass paper rivets to anchor the strap, which started life as a necklace until I got it from a thift store. There’s no give to the chain, though, which doesn’t matter for me because it was made to go on a hat; but if your daughter is going to wear them properly you might want a leather strap instead. I got my local shoe repair shop to custom cut a leather strap and install it, with brass rivets and buckle, on my son’s used-to-be-welding-goggles for like $15.
Good luck with it! And thanks for the posts! I’m fairly new to the genre myself and don’t have anyone locally to play with so now I’m working my way through the Internet instead haha.