My YA steampunk superhero novel, The Mechanikals, is now free, on Wattpad. Although written with a teen audience in mind I hope that adult readers will enjoy it also.
News of the week
Books and Blogs
Some news for the week, a couple of things about what I’ve been up to and some noteworthy stuff from others.
First, my latest blog on Amazing Stories is called Cyberpunk’d and is up now.
Second, my YA steampunk superhero novel, The Mechanikals, is being released episodically , for free, over at Wattpad. I plan to put all the chapters in as fast as I can, time permitting. I hope you’d consider giving it a read, leaving comments or voting.
Podcasts of Note
Writing Excuses is an excellent podcast show for aspiring authors. It’s presented in useful, bite-sized chunks of around 15 minutes an episode. The show hosts leading lights in science fiction, fantasy and horror in both narrative and comic book format, Mary Robinette Kowal, Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler and Dan Wells.
Tales to Terrify – the horror podcast on which I have had stories and for whom I have narrated work by others a couple of times – has been named 2013 Podcast of the Year by This Is Horror. Very well done, chaps and chapesses!
Three books giveaway
Linked to my review of Dangerous Women, edited by George R.R.Martin and Gardener Dozois, there’s a fabulous giveaway of three books over at Adventures in SciFi Publishing. Log in to the site via the entry button to put yourself in the running to win three anthologies from those lovely people at Tor: Dangerous Women, Twenty First Century Science Fiction and Year’s best SF 18.
Surely you don’t want to pass up a chance to snag all three?
Entries from US and Canada only.
Bone Machines 